HYBRID-GRID — Atomic-grid engineering view for hybrid infrastructure
IBM Cloud should provide an "atomic grid" engineering view of hybrid infrastructure: a fine-grained, cell-level map of every workload, dependency, and data flow across on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud, down to the smallest deployable unit....
Allow Clusters to be Assigned to Maintenance Windows for Master Fixpack Auto Patching
Currently IBM is responsible for patching the Master / Control plane fix packs. There is no rhyme or reason on how the fixpacks are applied. Ideally we could patch nonproduction first before production. It would also be nice if we could assign clu...
Create a couple of VSIs, one with IBM i, and one with AIX for public access with self learning purposes
For training purposes in our Telegram group "IBM i en Español" I have a free hosted IBM i LPAR in Mexico so all users can ask for access and test their programs, refresh their knowledge or follow tutorials to learn about this amazing OS. Pub400.co...
FP2027 - Introduce memory pooling/Sharing in Power12
This addresses stranded memory caused by heterogeneous workloads in IBM Cloud PowerVS offering. Important to address during Power12 timeframe to address the consumption and profitability aspect in PowerVS cloud. This will help up to ~50% memory ef...
PowerVS Disabling Automated Remote Restart, but move a instance another healthy host
The current Disabling ARR prevents moving to another host after a host when failure.But we need new behavior to Disabling ARR - "A instance is moved to another healthy host . But it is not automatically restarted. When a host is failed, we don't w...
Network Security Groups for PowerVS public interfaces
A customer configured a public interface/IP address on their PowerVS VSI to allow outbound EDI connections. They are experiencing a large number of inbound hacking attempts. They would like to enable PowerVS Network Security Groups on the public i...
Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI
When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
Add a CLONE command to the Power-IaaS Plugin in CLI
We have built a couple of scripts to ease our IBM Power Virtual Server administration: exporting to disk, exporting to COS, snapshots, launching consoles on browser, and now we have built a clone VSI process, exporting to disk and building the VSI...
Support from RedHat Openshift Virtualization on IBM Classic Bare Metal
Hi, Since a lot of customers are now moving from VMware to alternatives it would make a lot of sense to support RedHat Openshift Virtualization (OVE) on IBM Classic Bare Metal. This since customers need a good virtualization alternative.
I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...