The IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that delivers an industry-standard user experience for the IaaS management of non-containerized and containerized workloads, IBM Z and LinuxONE.
It provides lifecycle management for the virtual infrastructure that is based on IBM z/VM and Red Hat KVM and enables the automation of infrastructure services. It also provides the capability to integrate IBM Z and LinuxONE into a hybrid cloud model across your enterprise.
Updates and features for IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center
Manage infrastructure for compute, network and storage resources in an efficient manner.
Experience easy access to services with automate infrastructure deployment via self-service portal.
Use built-in OpenStack-compatible APIs to enable easy integration with cloud management tools.
Select a database and automate deployments in an as-a-service model at scale. The administrator can create a service that deploys a Linux distribution plus a database; the user can use this service to deploy a database on IBM zSystems and IBM LinuxONE.
Support to help simplify and automate Red Hat OpenShift® cluster deployments. A Red Hat OpenShift image can be deployed into a virtual machine that is based on z/VM or Red Hat KVM, like any other image.
Empower service providers to accelerate the deployment of Linux images in a virtual environment, integrate the environment across the enterprise via the built-in OpenStack-compatible APIs and thereby reduce cost and complexity.
Leverage industry standard-based and vendor-agnostic technology for simplified IaaS management to deliver a major step toward simplifying the management of virtualized infrastructure.
Offers enhancements in the areas of FCP device management improving the administrator efficiency, remote console access for better availability, HiperSockets support for better performance and several items to improve the day-to-day operation.
Offers capabilities such as high availability of management node, layer 3 network support of virtual machines based on Red Hat KVM, boot from volume support of virtual machines based on Red Hat KVM, multiple FLAT network support, IO threads on RHEL KVM VM and a two-factor authentication.
Delivers fundamental compute, network and storage resources to consumers on-demand, enabling the ability to scale and shrink resources as needed, as well as provisioning of Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical Linux distributions, and support to simplify and automate Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster deployments.
Provides industry-standard user experience to define, deploy and manage the lifecycle of virtual infrastructure for all types of containerized and non-containerized workloads; to automate via a self-service portal; and to integrate across the enterprise. Users can easily provision predefined workload instances. As an example, MongoDB can be part of predefined instances for easy and fast deployments.
Offers built-in OpenStack-compatible APIs to enable vendor-agnostic IaaS management and easy integration to cloud management tools, such as IBM Cloud Paks®, Red Hat tooling, VMware vRealize Automation and others, without platform-specific skill requirements.
Review the hardware and software requirements for your IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center environment.
Get a consolidated view of the hardware and software requirements for z/VM system.
Get a consolidated view of the hardware and software requirements for RHEL KVM.
Leverage a security-rich, scalable and robust hypervisor virtualization technology.
An open-source alternative to the IBM z/VM hypervisor for the virtualization of Linux workloads on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE systems.
Accelerate decision velocity and protect against threats before they happen.
Achieve sustainability, scalability, security-rich and superior performance for your data-serving needs.
Monitor, manage and perform backups.
Build, modernize and manage applications securely.