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My ideas: IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center

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remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple compute_disk_pool configurations

Currently ICIC only supports the use of a single DASD group via compute_disk_pool for local storage. We would like ICIC to support multiple DASD groups in order to allow users to provision persistent storage to a guest from these DASD groups.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Export/Import a VM fron one cluster to another cluster

Useful to move a workload from one cluster (maybe old) to another cluster (maybe new)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Copy/Paste enablemnet for Remote console access KVM

Will nice to have the copy and past feature Remote console access KVM in CIC. Since this kind of console is used in case of problem/issue many time some solution can be found on manual or forum, and the solution commanda could be many and very lon...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Export/import  across clusters (KVM)

Export/import across clusters (KVM)
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Security Groups logging

to log more security group info to be consulted on the ICIC console or exported to a log concentrator
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Network node HA

Network node HA
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration