What's new in IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack 4.3 fixpacks
What's new covers the features and support that are included in the latest fix packs of IBM® Cloud Manager with OpenStack 4.3. For features and support list of individual fix packs, see the appropriate readme file.
Features:
- Graphical user interface, IBM Cloud Manager - Deployer, simplifies the process of deploying your private clouds. For more information, see Deploying the cloud environment using the IBM Cloud Manager - Deployer user interface. You can now deploy using either the IBM Cloud Manager - Deployer user interface or the command line on x86 KVM, PowerKVM, and PowerVM®.
- Enhanced capabilities for the administrator are available in IBM Cloud Manager - Dashboard. For example, you can manage approvals and user requests. For more information, see Managing with the IBM Cloud Manager - Dashboard.
- A new IBM Cloud Manager - Self Service user interface that provides end users with simplified cloud management. For more information, see Managing with (User access).
- Enhanced OpenStack compute scheduler, IBM Platform Resource Scheduler. For more information about Platform Resource Scheduler, see Platform Resource Scheduler.
- Bare metal node provisioning and management with IBM Platform Cluster Manager. For more information about adding these capabilities to IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack, see IBM Platform Cluster Manager for IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack.
- High Availability (HA) features for the x86 controller node. For more information, see High Availability (HA) controller +n compute deployment.
- Hybrid services with the flexibility to deploy a private cloud to extend your existing off-premises IBM Cloud OpenStack Services cloud on-premises. For more information, see Deploying a hybrid environment.
Support:
- All IBM server architectures and major hypervisors are supported. This includes x86 KVM, KVM for z Systems®, PowerKVM, PowerVM, Hyper-V, z/VM®, and VMware.
- VMware vSphere 6.7 is supported from IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack 4.3 FP 11 onwards.
- Based on the Kilo OpenStack release and supports all OpenStack Kilo APIs.
- The supported operating system for the controller, compute nodes, and deployment server generally is x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6.
- Topologies that are supported:
- Minimal (All-in-One): The controller and compute must be on a different system than the deployment server.
- Controller +n compute: The controller and compute must be on a different system than the deployment server.
- High availability (HA) controller + n compute
- Distributed database
- Database support:
- DB2® 10.5 FP10
- MariaDB 5.5.41
- MySQL 5.5.43
- IBM PowerVC 1.4.3
- Support for leveraging Docker container management and services. For more information, see the following topics:
- Support for leveraging auto-scaling and auto-recovery capabilities. For more information, see the following topics:
- Networking improvements: IPv6, Neutron stability
- A service that enables disaster recovery for OpenStack workloads. For more information, see the following topics: