IBM® Cloud Infrastructure Center is an advanced infrastructure management (OpenStack compatible) software that includes on-premises cloud deployments of IBM z/VM®- and KVM-based Linux® virtual machines on the IBM Z® and LinuxONE platforms.

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. 

Features

• **New features with 1.2.2: **Offers enhancements in the storage management, e.g., 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/detachment of virtual NICs to/from virtual machines, and several items to improve the user experience.
• **Features with 1.2.1: **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.
• **Efficient infrastructure management and provisioning: **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.
• **Industry-standard user experience and self-service portal: **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.
• **Integration via OpenStack compatible APIs: **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.

Benefits

• **Simplify management: **Manage infrastructure for compute, network and storage resources in an efficient manner.
• **Drive value faster: **Experience easy access to services with automate infrastructure deployment via self-service portal.
• **Enable cloud integration: **Use built-in OpenStack-compatible APIs to enable easy integration with cloud management tools.