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New IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.1.6 benefits include consistency group support, backup and restore, and more user experience improvements

  

The trend to benefit from the agility of hybrid cloud solutions for all types of non-containerized and containerized workloads hasn’t stopped. IT organizations are shifting workloads to a cloud computing service model that blends an on-premises infrastructure with private and public cloud computing models, unlike traditional IT.

The new IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.1.6 extends the ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ management capabilities for the IBM Z® and IBM® LinuxONE platforms, providing enhanced agility, efficiency, and scalability.

IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.1.6 benefits include:

  • Consistency group support, enabling a snapshot for multiple disks at the same time
  • Backup and restore of Red Hat KVM-based virtual machines with IBM Spectrum® Scale
  • The ability to manage the FCP multipath template lifecycle with fine granularity on IBM z/VM®
  • The ability to manage the access control (security group) of a Red Hat KVM-based virtual machines
  • Performance enhancement in several Day 2 operations such as environment checker, healthy checker, and diagnostic data collection to support a scale-out environment
  • Hybrid hypervisor support to manage both hypervisors, z/VM and Red Hat KVM, in one instance of Cloud Infrastructure Center
  • Visualization of the network topology with the UI, showing the relationship between the components

Learn more about IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1.1.6