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IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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Instana integration

Instana integration: issues have been identified during some customer PoC.Key for production as they expect similar experience on x86/pub cloud.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

More user roles & access control: predefined roles

More user roles & access control MVP1: predefined roles
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

RoCE - macvtap KVM

RoCE (macvtap KVM)
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

vdisk as swapdisk (z/VM)

align with IBM z/VM recommendation to use vdisk as swapdisk for better performance.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

Auto LUN Scan

No description provided
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Delivered

Remote console access KVM

Emergency console access for "users" so KVM host console access does not need to be given
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Hipersockets

Customer especially Linux on z (not LinuxONE) customer has z/OS workload and hipersocket is recommended to connect between Linux and z/OS workload to gain better performance.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

cinder node HA - automation

Currently to manually migrate cinder node to another compute node (if need do maintenance work etc). Need automated solution.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

consumption-based chargeback

this requirement is about adding consumption based chargeback for zVM&KVM.chargeback is supposed a key feature to IaaS provider use case.Potential customers: Sogei, Citi; UHG; SSA, BCBS, Sicoob, etc.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered