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 noncontainerized and containerized workloads on 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.
Manage infrastructure for compute, network and storage resources efficiently.
Experience easy access to services with automated infrastructure deployment through a self-service portal.
Use built-in OpenStack-compatible APIs for easy integration with cloud management tools.
Use industry standard-based and vendor-agnostic technology to deliver a major step toward simplifying the management of virtualized infrastructure.
Empower service providers to accelerate the deployment of Linux images in a virtual environment, integrate the environment across the enterprise via OpenStack-compatible APIs and thereby reduce cost and complexity.
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.
Support to help simplify and automate Red Hat OpenShift® cluster deployments. Deploy a Red Hat OpenShift image into a virtual machine that is based on z/VM or Red Hat KVM like any other image.
Enhancements allow to decentralize the resource handling to multiple data centers, use the z/VM capabilities in CPU and memory sharing and migrate and resize VMs created outside the Cloud Infrastructure Center management. Other enhancements are in the areas of GPFS Support, Diagnostic Tool and Cinder HA.
Offers enhancements in the storage management, for example, an advanced scheduler for volume creation and boot-from-volume. Other enhancement examples are the two new roles for managing security and network, the attachment and detachment of virtual NICs to and from virtual machines and several items to improve the user experience.
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 an industry-standard user experience to define, deploy and manage the lifecycle of virtual infrastructure for all types of containerized and noncontainerized 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.
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Step-by-step instructions to help you install, perform administrator tasks and integrate with cloud tools.
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