IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center is an on-premises infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform on IBM Z® and IBM® LinuxONE. With its OpenStack-compatible APIs, it is designed to provide a consistent user experience to any administrator and user. The major use cases are described in the IBM Whitepaper: Empower how you deploy, manage, and integrate infrastructure as a service.

In support of the different IT roles, with Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.2.2 the security administrator and the network administrator role for managing the security and network have been added. Administrators can easily manage and define infrastructure services that can be invoked by users in an automated manner.

IT organizations around the world are leveraging the industry standard-based and vendor-agnostic technology build-in Cloud Infrastructure Center to simplify their management of virtualized infrastructure.

With IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.2.2 we provide the following key features to benefit from:

• Storage related:
  • Advanced scheduler for volume creation with IBM FlashSystem FC host awareness
  • Advanced scheduler for boot-from-volume with FC physical connectivity and IBM FlashSystem FC host awareness
  • Support the setting of blocked storage providers or allowed storage providers per compute node
  • Volume protection related enhancements for IBM FlashSystem, including add volume protect health check
• Support to attach/detach a NIC to given virtual machine on the fly
• New for z/VM:
  • Support to indicate the max memory during deployment for a z/VM virtual machine
  • Support to use a VDISK as swap disk for deployment of a z/VM virtual machine, optionally
• New for KVM:
  • Support to attach a volume with the multi-attach capability to multiple KVM virtual machines
  • RoCE card support as KVM virtual machine's uplink port through macvtap and workload spread across multiple RoCE cards
• Added  the security and network administrator roles for managing the security and network
• Support to input the SMTP TLS client certificate during the SMTP setup
• User experience improvements
  • Control the VM startup process to avoid a startup storm
  • Display all virtual machines from all projects and operate those virtual machines
  • Export virtual machine information from the user interface
  • Operational enhancement including RAS/IVP/service applied processes

All feature descriptions of IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.2.2 are available at What’s new with 1.2.2.

Check as well the IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center page for more production information.