vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
: The [VMware Solutions API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/vmware-solutions) provides support for scaling existing VMware vSphere clusters.

User interface updates and enhancements
: The user interface is updated with various error messages and tooltip enhancements and provides the following enhancements.



* A vertical progress indicator bar is now available on the ordering page for VMware Solutions Shared offerings. The progress indicator maps to each section and helps to quickly browse to different areas of the page.
* If you are running VMware NSX-V or a vSphere 6 version on the instances in your environment, you now receive notifications to update your environment to the most recent supported version of NSX or vSphere. You can go to the instance summary page to check the NSX solution type and the vSphere version that is most suitable for your environment.







 22 June 2022 

VMware vRealize Operations Tenant App V8.6 for VMware Shared
: The 4.8 release enables a new optional feature for the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions tenant portal. VMware vRealize Operations Tenant App V8.6 provides metering capabilities for tenants to monitor their virtual data centers, virtual applications, and virtual machines.

IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management enablement for VMware Solutions Shared
: IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) is now enabled by default for new sites. You can optionally enable IAM for existing sites. After you integrate your site with IAM, you can use single sign-on to log in to the VMware Cloud Director console from the VMware Solutions console.

With the IAM integration, role-based access control now uses a site and organization IAM policy for VMware Solutions Shared resources.

IBM Cloud data center region and site availability for VMware Solutions Shared
: You can now select the region where your virtual data center instance is hosted and the IBM Cloud data center site where the virtual data center is hosted.

Platform management roles
: New IAM platform management roles are available for VMware Solutions offerings.

End of Marketing for NSX-V instance deployments
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 [IBM Cloud](https://ibm.com/cloud) IBM Cloud provides solutions that enable higher levels of compliance, security, and management, with proven architecture patterns and methods for rapid delivery for running mission-critical workloads. 







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The following use cases are examples of CSMs collaborating with IBM customers.

NCHC uses AIOps to improve public network services and proactively prevent outages.
: In Taiwan, where the pandemic response has been exceptionally effective at limiting outbreaks and death, the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) helps accelerate research and innovation nationwide by providing access to supercomputers and analytics and by facilitating nationwide networks for data sharing and collaboration. Read the [case study](https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/national-center-for-high-performance-computing/).

Travelping drives connected cars into the data fast lane with cloud-native technologies.
: EU data protection regulations and network latency issues can stall advancements in connected vehicle performance. To help auto manufacturers gain real-time Internet of Things (IoT) insights, Travelping used IBM Cloud® infrastructure products and its own Kubernetes deployment to create a cloud-native solution that transports data to the vehicles. Read the [case study](https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/travelping-gmbh-cloud).

Karnataka Bank creates single integration platform for its data-driven transformation.
: Financial institutions are constantly operating in a complex, competitive and compliance-driven financial environment where making timely and data-driven decisions is key for efficient growth and effective risk management. By leveraging tools such as data lake, advanced analytics, and accessible reporting, a bank can establish baseline performance metrics across applications, deposits, and loans.
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Target platforms in IBM Cloud 

IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions has a number of offerings, deployment patterns, and options that can be used to create your target VMware NSX-T™ environment:



* Automated offerings - These offerings are available from the [VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/vmware) console.
* Regulated workload offerings - These offerings are available from the [VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/vmware) console, the VMware Regulated Workloads card. They are suitable for clients that require a prescriptive reference architecture that matches the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services.
* Automated offerings with manual customization tasks - These offerings are based on the offering available from the [VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/vmware) console. They require a number of post-deployment manual tasks to achieve the architectural pattern needed.



Based on the assessment of your source NSX-V environment, you can identify the requirements for your target platform. After the analysis, do the following steps:



1. Select the target platform that supports all your requirements from the information on the features that are shown in the following diagrams.
2. Review [Getting started with VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-getting-started) to learn more about the offerings, deployment patterns, and services.



A summary and key capabilities of the target VMware Solutions offerings in IBM Cloud is provided with architectural guidance to ease up the selection process.



 Automated offerings 

The offerings are described in detail in the following documents:



* [vCenter Server as a single site deployment](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_vcenterserveroverview) - This offering deploys a VMware® based platform in a single IBM Cloud data center automatically.
Overview of roll-your-own VMware solution on VPC 

The IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions offerings help you extend your existing VMware® virtualized data center into IBM Cloud. The IBM Cloud bare metal server for IBM Cloud VPC provides you compute capacity to host VMware workloads in the IBM Cloud VPC.

With this solution, you have the flexibility to design a VMware deployment for your needs, which is integrated with IBM Cloud VPC. The following diagram shows an overview of the solution.

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![Overview of VMware on IBM Cloud VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/vmwaresolutions/images/vpc-ryo-diagrams-overview.svg)

Figure 1. Overview of VMware on IBM Cloud VPC

The IBM Cloud bare metal server is integrated with the VPC network, and you can take advantage of the network, storage, and security capabilities provided by IBM Cloud VPC. Use VMware vSAN™ for storage and VMware NSX-T™ for network capabilities. You can easily and quickly add and remove ESXi hosts. Also, add, configure, and remove VMware vSphere® clusters as you like. If your storage needs grow, you can add and attach IBM Cloud VPC file shares.

After the bare metal server provisioning and initial VMware configurations, you can access and manage the IBM-hosted environment. To do this step, you can use VMware clients, command line interface (CLI), existing scripts, or other familiar vSphere API-compatible tools. These options can be combined with IBM Cloud automation solutions, such as using IBM Cloud Terraform provider with Schematics.

For the required common services, such as NTP and DNS, you can use IBM Cloud VPC basic services and solutions. For Active Directory™, you can use IBM Cloud VPC compute resources to build your Active Directory in IBM Cloud VPC, or interconnect with your existing Active Directory infrastructure.
* IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated, fully automated VMware SDDC setup and configuration



* includes optional BYOL and access to advanced VMware capabilities, such as VMware HCX for seamless bidirectional network extension and connection to existing VMware clusters on-premises





For more information about IBM Cloud for VMware on Classic Infrastructure, see [IBM Cloud for VMware](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware). Additional information is available on:



* [IBM Cloud Intel Bare Metal and VMware vSphere (ESXi OS)](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmware?topic=vmware-about-vmware) for the manual VMware setup and configuration
* [IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-inst_comp_chart) for fully automated VMware SDDC setup and configuration







 Compliance 

IBM treats your data with the same safeguards as our own, the security is built to IBM’s rigorous standards and certified for compliance.

IBM Cloud is designed for organizations who are building a cloud environment, which is security-rich, open, hybrid Cloud (i.e., on-premises data center workloads) and multi-cloud. Deployments to IBM Cloud include many secure and regulated workloads, by using our extensive IBM Cloud compliance programs with clear delineation of roles and responsibilities.

[IBM Cloud compliance programs](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/compliance) provide compliance and trust certifications, which reaffirm IBM's commitment to protection of customer data and applications. These compliance programs are for regulations, standards, and frameworks across Global, Government, Industry, and Regional.

More supplementary information to the IBM Cloud compliance programs is available on [IBM Cloud service offering descriptions and terms](https://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/bm?OpenDocument) which contain links to individual Data Processing and Protection data sheets for IBM Cloud offerings.
Sample Terraform solutions 

Various solutions show the strength of IBM Cloud® Schematics and IBM Cloud® services when used together. These solutions use a simple Terraform template or module to set up the infrastructure. Even though each solution is presented through the lens of a particular use case, these infrastructures are typical across various industries.

Use the published [Terraform solution templates](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/ibm-cloud-provider-for-terraform?topic=ibm-cloud-provider-for-terraform-provider-templatesample) through IBM Cloud Schematics to create your infrastructure, manage the resources, and use powerful tools to secure, manage, and monitor your workspace and actions.
Compute, storage, and event management that run in public cloud with access to back-end ERP systems

Technical solution:



* IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
* IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud®
* IBM Cloudant
* IBM Streaming Analytics
* IBM Watson Discovery







 Step 1: Containerize apps, by using microservices 



* Structure inventory analysis and mobile apps into microservices and deploy them to containers in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
* Provide standardized DevOps dashboards through Kubernetes.
* Scale compute resources for batch and other inventory workloads that run less frequently.







 Step 2: Analyze inventory and trends 



* IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud® acts as the just-in-time events platform to bring in the rapidly changing information from inventory systems to IBM Streaming Analytics.
* Social media analysis with Watson Discovery and inventory systems data is integrated with IBM Streaming Analytics to deliver merchandising and marketing advice.







 Step 3: Deliver promotions with mobile loyalty app 



* Promotions in the form of coupons and other entitlements are sent to users’ mobile app. The promotions were identified by using the inventory and social analysis, plus other back-end systems.
* Storage of promotion recipes on mobile app and conversions (redeemed checkout coupons) are fed back to ERP systems for further analysis.









 Results 



* With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, microservices greatly reduce time to delivery for patches, bug fixes, and new features. Initial development is fast, and updates are frequent.
* Customer traffic and sales increased in stores by making the stores themselves a differentiating asset.
* At the same time, new insights from social and cognitive analysis improved reduced inventory OpEx (operating expenses).
* Social sharing in the mobile app also helps to identify and market to new customers.
* Operators or Operator bundles with a TGZ file from GitHub or GitLab repositories
* Operator bundles from Red Hat OpenShift registries









 Software or services? 

Do you want to sell your third-party service on IBM Cloud? Or do you want to onboard your software to our IBM Cloud platform? You might have a software application that users can manage and install, or a software-based service you can manage for users.

You can use our expanding catalog of software solutions to take advantage of a simplified installation process. You can also bring your own licenses, or offer your third-party software for free. For more information, see [Software](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalogsoftware).

If you have a service that you want to provide, you can offer it as an integrated billing service. Offering it as an integrated billing service means that users can create an instance of your service automatically. You can onboard your service to IBM Cloud by defining your service, building pricing plans, and creating brokers. For more information, see [Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalogservices).



 Software 

Software includes containerized applications or system images that your customers can run on their own infrastructure.

IBM Cloud supports the following types of third-party software:



* Operators for adding services
* Cloud Pak for installing services
* Images through Terraform templates (such as virtual server image or OVA)
* Images for Power Systems (virtual server image)
* Terraform templates for configuration
* Helm charts for working with applications



Your software can be deployed onto specified targets, including IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service, Red Hat® OpenShift® on IBM Cloud®, Power Systems Virtual Server, Schematics, Virtual Private Cloud and vCenter Server.

The process is as simple as selecting the Deployable software option, providing company information, creating a suitable test environment, setting up team access, and inviting team members to join.
<br><br> * Viewing cloud status<br><br><br> The IBM Cloud Status page is the central place to find details about all incidents, planned maintenance, announcements, release notes, and security bulletins about key events that affect the IBM Cloud platform and services. Learn more about [viewing cloud status](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/get-support?topic=get-support-viewing-cloud-status). 
 <br><br> * Review available support plans<br><br><br> You can choose a Basic, Advanced, or Premium support plan to customize your IBM Cloud support experience for your business needs. The level of support that you select determines the severity that you can assign to support cases and your level of access to the tools available in the Support Center. Learn more about [support plans](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/get-support?topic=get-support-support-plans). 
 <br><br> * Create support cases<br><br><br> If you experience problems with IBM Cloud, you can use the [Support Center](https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/supportcenter) to create a support case. You can also create support cases for issues that are associated with access (IAM), billing and usage, account issues, and invoice or sales inquiries. Learn more about [creating support cases](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/get-support?topic=get-support-open-case&interface=ui). In the event you’re unable to access your account, please create a case [here](https://watson.service-now.com/x_ibmwc_open_case_app.do!/create). 
 <br><br> * Check out the solution tutorials<br><br><br> Solution tutorials provide step-by-step instructions on how to use IBM Cloud Log Analysis to manage operating system logs, application logs, and platform logs in the IBM Cloud to implement common patterns based on best practices and proven technologies.
Getting started with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 

Every enterprise in today's markets must offer robust digital products and services, often requiring integration of complex capabilities and systems to deliver one coherent whole. IBM® Cloud Pak for Integration offers a simplified solution to this integration challenge, allowing the enterprise to modernize its processes while positioning itself for future innovation. Once installed, IBM Cloud Pak for Integration eases monitoring, maintenance and upgrades, helping the enterprise stay ahead of the innovation curve.



 What's inside this Cloud Pak 

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration includes the following components.



* Platform Navigator - Get centralized management and control of all Cloud Pak for Integration components with this integration-specific user interface.
* Asset Repository - Achieve accelerated development through reuse of integration assets across capabilities.
* [Common Services](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHKN6/kc_welcome_cs.html) - Get logging, metering, monitoring and many other key foundational services with IBM Common Services, a set of private cloud platform services that provide the benefits of the public cloud from the safety of your firewall-protected data center. Entitlement to IBM Common Services is included in Cloud Pak for Integration to facilitate the transition to OpenShift.
* [API Connect](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSMNED_2018/mapfiles/getting_started.html) - Create, secure, manage, share and monetize APIs across clouds while you maintain continuous availability. Take control of your API ecosystem and drive digital business with a robust API strategy that can meet the changing needs of your users.
* [App Connect Enterprise](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSTTDS_11.0.0/com.ibm.ace.home.doc/help_home.htm) - Integrate all of your business data and applications more quickly and easily across any cloud, from the simplest SaaS application to the most complex systems — without worrying about mismatched sources, formats or standards.
VMware and IBM Cloud 

IBM Cloud® provides the unique capability for you to provision dedicated Bare Metal Servers upon which you can deploy your own VMware based private cloud. For example, you can enable the creation of a hybrid cloud where on-premises VMware based servers, tooling, and processes can be extended into the public cloud. For more information, see [Getting started with VMware and IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmware?topic=vmware-vmware-getting-started).
About software 

IBM Cloud® has strategic relationships with vendors to provide month-to-month licenses on 32-bit and 64-bit compatible software. When you order a device, you select the type of operating system and software for your device. You can add more software to your device within the IBM Cloud® infrastructure customer portal and change to another operating system by reloading the OS on your existing device. The IBM automated system provisions software onto your server by following best practice guidelines of each vendor to make sure that you have maximum stability and availability.

See [IBM Cloud® software solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalogsoftware) for a complete list of IBM Cloud® supported software.

Not all software options are available for all server types and not all software options are the same for monthly and hourly billing.

If you need software that isn't supported, use your root access to the server to install and configure your own version of that software. To return to a supported version on your device, reload the OS.

IBM includes instructions or considerations for using products in the IBM Cloud environment. For more information about specific software, see the vendor-specific software documentation.



 Anti-virus, Adaptive Threat Protection (ATP), ENS Firewall, ENS Threat Prevention, ENS Web Control 

IBM offers Trellix solutions for anti-virus, Adaptive Threat Protection (ATP), ENS Firewall, ENS Threat Prevention, ENS Web Control on Windows® devices. You can get protection for Windows for a monthly fee.

You can manage your Trellix offerings from your server. IBM does not manage Trellix offerings on your server.





 Supported operating systems for IBM Cloud® server software 

IBM Cloud® server software supports the following operating systems.

Boot disk sizes vary by operating system: Linux OS supports 25 GB and 100 GB. Windows supports only 100 GB.

Virtual servers

Bare metal servers



Table 1. Bare Metal Servers supported operating systems
Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class.

 Operating system Version 

 CentOS 8.x <br>7.x <br>6.x Minimal 
 Debian 11.x <br>10.x