vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
* They meet the minimum edition and CPU requirements of the VMware components.



If the validation of any license key fails, you get a notification and you cannot proceed with the instance order.
* Can you provide a license key with more than 8 CPUs?

Yes. For each VMware component, one license per CPU is required. Currently, all VMware vCenter Server® servers have two CPUs. Therefore, two licenses are required for each server. It is recommended that you provide a license key that can support the base instance and any expansion nodes that you want to add to the instance in the future.
* How are my service license charges being calculated?



* For Caveonix RiskForesight™ on VMware Regulated Workloads or Security and Compliance Readiness Bundle, each server requires a service license.
* For VMware HCX™, service licenses are charged per two CPUs. Dual servers require a single license each. Quad servers require two licenses each. For servers with more than 16 cores per CPU, an increase in the license charge occurs.
* For Entrust CloudControl™ and Entrust DataControl®, service licenses are charged per two CPUs. Dual servers require a single license each. Quad servers require two licenses each.
* For VMware Aria® Operations™, license charges depend on the CPU type. Dual servers have different charges than Quad servers. For servers with more than 16 cores per CPU, an increase in the license charge occurs.
* All other services have static service license charges that do not change based on the number of servers in the instance.



* Why is there a discrepancy in the supported number of VMs for VMware Aria Operations licenses?

You might see a discrepancy in the supported number of VMs between what is displayed on the VMware Aria Operations Manager console and the per CPU metering in IBM Cloud. This issue happens if you did not select the Product evaluation (no key required) option when you first accessed the VMware Aria Operations Manager console after service installation.
CPU allocation 1.25 vCPU <br>Includes: <br>- 1 peer (0.7 vCPU) <br>- 2 CAs (0.1 vCPU x 2) <br>- 1 ordering node (0.35 vCPU) 2.9 vCPU <br>Includes: <br>- 2 peers (for HA) <br>(2x default compute = 2 x 0.7 x 2) <br>- 1 CA (0.1) <br> 
 Hourly cost: IBM Blockchain Platform $0.46 USD <br>(1.25 vCPU x $0.29 USD/VPC-hr) $0.81 USD <br>(2.9 vCPUx $0.29 USD/VPC-hr ) 
 Hourly cost: IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster $0.29 USD <br>(Compute: 4 x 16 lowest tier; 1 worker node; 1 zone) $0.29 USD <br>(Compute: 4 x 16 lowest tier; 1 worker node; 1 zone) 
 Hourly cost: Storage $0.06 USD <br>340GB <br>[Bronze](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/file-storage/pricing) <br>2 IOPS/GB $0.09 USD <br>420GB <br>[Silver](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/file-storage/pricing) <br>4 IOPS/GB 
 Total hourly cost $0.71 USD $1.19 USD 



** [Preview the IBM Blockchain Platform at no charge](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/blockchain?topic=blockchain-ibp-saas-pricingibp-saas-pricing-free) for 30 days when you link your IBM Blockchain Platform service instance to an IBM Cloud Kubernetes free cluster. Performance is limited by throughput, storage and functionality. IBM Cloud will delete your Kubernetes cluster after 30 days and you cannot migrate any nodes or data from a free cluster to a paid cluster.

Your actual costs will vary depending on additional factors such as transaction rate, the number of channels you require, the payload size on the transactions, and the maximum number of concurrent transactions.
"value": "<CRK-Account-A-ID>"
},
{
"name": "Key-Protect",
"operator": "stringEquals",
"value": "kms" // For HPCS use hs-crypto
}
]
}
],
"type": "authorization",
"description": "Reader and Delegator role for KeyProtect Service instance",
"subjects": [
{
"attributes":
{
"name": "serviceName",
"value": "is"
},
{
"name": "resourceType",
"value": "share"
},
{
"name": "Account-B",
"value": "<Account-B-ID>"
}
]
}
]
}'
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For more information, see [Using authorizations to grant access between services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-serviceauth&interface=api).





 Create a cross-account encrypted file share with the API 

Before you can create an encryted file share, you must authorize the file service to access the key management service. From Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), authorize access between Cloud File Storage (source service) and Key Protect or Hyper Protect Crypto Services (target service). Specify reader access for the role. For more information, see [Prerequisites for setting up customer-managed encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpc-encryption-planning&interface=apibyok-encryption-prereqs).

After the IAM authorizations are set, use the VPC API to [create a file share](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-file-storage-vpc-encryption&interface=apifs-byok-api) with the root key that is owned by the other account.
[PrimaryIO HDM](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-managing_pio) 
 [Red Hat OpenShift for VMware](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-ocp_overview) 4.12 NSX-T only <br>If you add the service to an existing instance with an NSX-T version earlier than 3.1, you must first upgrade NSX-T to 3.1 or later. 
 [Veeam](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-veeamvm_overview) 12 
 [VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vrops_overview) VMware Aria® Operations™ 8.12 and VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs 8.12 
 [Zerto](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-addingzertodr) 9.7u3 VMware vSphere 7 only 







 Promotions for services 

IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions offers promotion pricing for some services. The promotions offer a number of months free of charge for service licenses, if the service has license charges.

You can use promotion (promo) codes for one or more services when you:



* Order a new VMware vCenter Server instance
* Add a service to a vCenter Server instance
* Order a stand-alone service license, such as Caveonix or Veeam®



For services that charge per host, promo codes apply only to the hosts in the order or in the current environment. Examples of such services are HCX™, Entrust CloudControl™, and VMware Aria® Operations™ and VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs.

You can use one promo code per order. Multiple promo codes are not allowed.
Base instances 

The base instance billing depends on your virtual instance options when you create a Power Systems Virtual Server. The machine type, number of cores, and amount of memory all affect the base instance billing. When you create your virtual server instance, the associated monthly rate is displayed. For more information, see [Creating a Power Systems Virtual Server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/power-iaas?topic=power-iaas-creating-power-virtual-servercreating-power-virtual-server).

The pricing for memory is calculated based on a ratio of 64 GB per core. For example, if you use more than 16 GB for 0.25 cores, you must pay a premium high-use RAM price for the excess memory. However, if you use up to 128 GB for 2 cores, you do not have to pay any premium memory price.





 Operating systems 

The Power Systems Virtual Server pricing for AIX and IBM i includes license and IBM software maintenance.

Power Systems Virtual Server provides AIX and IBM i stock images. The operating system version levels of the stock images are subject to change.

You can also bring your own custom image to use on a Power Systems Virtual Server instance, but you must still purchase an operating system license for virtual server resources. If you bring your own custom image, you are charged for the image size and the storage tier that you use for the image. After you deploy a stock image (and only after deployment), you are charged for the space the image is stored in. The storage unit price (per GB) for the stored boot images is same as the selected storage tier (Tier 0 or Tier 3) where your boot disks are deployed. To identify the estimated storage rates, use the Cost Estimator tool. To reduce costs you can capture the virtual machine and delete when it is not needed. The pricing for AIX and IBM i operating system license is not determined by whether you use a custom image or a stock image. To learn more, go to [Deploying a custom image within a Power Systems Virtual Server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/power-iaas?topic=power-iaas-deploy-custom-image).

The Power Systems Virtual Server also provides Linux® stock images.
For more information, see [Procedure to view details for VMware as a Service instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmware-service?topic=vmware-service-tenant-viewingtenant-viewing-details).



 Procedure to access the Veeam self-service portal from the instance 



1. Under Add-on services on the instance details page, click Open Veeam Backups.
2. Use a user with the Organization Administrator role to log in to the Veeam self-service portal. A newly provisioned virtual data center's admin user has the role by default.



For more information about generating the VMware Cloud Director console credentials, see [Procedure to access the VMware Cloud Director console](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmware-service?topic=vmware-service-accessing-vcd-consoleaccessing-vcd-console-procedure).

Alternatively, click the More menu in the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal and select Data Protection with Veeam.

If you do not see the Data Protection with Veeam option, open an IBM Support ticket by following the steps in [Contacting IBM Support](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmware-service?topic=vmware-service-support). In the subject for your issue, include Request Veeam Self Service Portal for my Organization and include your Organization ID and virtual data center name in your issue description.







 Licenses and fees for Veeam Backup and Replication 

Veeam usage incurs the following charges. You can view the charges on the IBM Cloud Manage > Billing and usage view.

In the IBM Cloud Usage view, locate the VMware as a Service service. Locate the Organization plan to find the Veeam usage across all virtual data centers in that organization.



Table 1. Licenses and fees for Veeam

 Metric Frequency Description 

 VEEAM_BACKUP_SERVICE_BASE_CHARGE Monthly Provisioning charge per instance where Veeam is enabled. 
 VEEAM_BACKUP_HOST_CHARGE Monthly Utilization charge on the number of bare metal servers with VMs utilizing Veeam backups.
Total Resources vCPU: 1.65 <br>RAM: 3.9GB <br>Storage: 240GB vCPU: 1.2 <br>RAM: 3.0GB <br>Storage: 120GB 
 Approximate Total Cost <br>(per hour) IBP: 1.65vCPU x .29/hr = $0.48 USD <br>IKS*:$0.31 USD <br>Storage: $0.05 USD <br> <br>Total: 0.84 USD/hr <br> <br>*IKS 4x16 single node cluster with IP allocation (Shared hardware) IBP: 1.2vCPU x .29/hr = $0.35 USD <br>IKS*:$0.13 USD <br>Storage: $0.03 USD <br> <br>Total: 0.51 USD/hr <br> <br>*IKS 2x4 single node cluster with IP allocation (Shared hardware) 
 Approximate Total Cost <br>(per month) IBP: $346 USD <br>IKS: $224 USD <br>Storage:$36 USD <br> <br>Total Base Cost: $606 USD IBP: $252 USD <br>IKS: $94 USD <br>Storage:$22 USD <br> <br>Total Base Cost: $368 USD
Pricing for Power Systems Virtual Servers 

Power Systems Virtual Servers is offered in select regions with scale-out logical partitions (LPAR). The IBM Power Systems that can host Power Systems Virtual Servers have the following theoretical maximums:



 Power Systems Processors Memory 

 E980 (9080-M9S) 143 up to 15,307 GB <br><br>[1] 
 S922 (9009-22A) <br><br>[2] 15 up to 942 GB 



It's important to note that a system's theoretical maximum depends on the data center. Also, the Power Systems Virtual Server development team enforces the current available resources within each data center. With these processing maximums, the Power Systems Virtual Server can meet any business workload requirement.

In the Cloud catalog for Power Systems Virtual Servers, the estimated price might be different than the actual price when you purchase the Power Systems Virtual Server or instances based on the discounts and promotion codes.



 Monthly usage 

Power Systems Virtual Server instances are charged at a monthly rate that is prorated per hour. If you add resources to an LPAR during the middle of the month, the monthly bill for the LPAR reflects the resource change and the LPAR price that is prorated per hour.

In the following monthly usage example, the customer purchases a Power Systems Virtual Server instance that has one core with 8 GB of memory, a 150 GB disk, and is running AIX 7200-03-02, at a base price of $250.57 per month ($0.343 per hour). As the month progresses, the customer adds more memory. The new price for the LPAR is $339.45 per month ($0.465 per hour). The monthly bill is prorated by the hour for the resources deployed.

All prices mentioned on this page are illustrative and do not represent the actual amounts used for billing. To calculate the exact pricing, use the [IBM cost estimator](https://cloud.ibm.com/estimator).



Table 2. Monthly LPAR charges

 Hours elapsed in a month Amount charged LPAR description 

 300 hours (300 hours x $0.343)/month = $103 1 core, 8 GB memory, 150 GB disk, AIX
* UI
* CLI
* API







 Creating file shares with customer-managed encryption at rest 

By default, File Storage for VPC shares are encrypted with IBM-managed encryption. However, you can also create encrypted file shares by using a supported key management service to create or import your own root keys. After you specify the encryption type for a file share, you can't change it.

IBM Cloud® File Storage for VPC is available for customers with special approval to preview this service in the Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Dallas, Toronto, Washington, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Osaka, and Tokyo regions. Contact your IBM Sales representative if you are interested in getting access.



 Before you begin 

To create file shares with customer-managed encryption, you must first provision a key management service, and create or import your customer root key (CRK). You must also [authorize access](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpc-encryption-planningbyok-volumes-prereqs) between File Storage for VPC and the key management service. When you complete these prerequisites, you can start creating file shares that use customer-managed encryption.

For more information, see [Prerequisites for setting up customer-managed encryption](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpc-encryption-planningbyok-encryption-prereqs).





 Create file shares with customer-managed encryption in the UI 

Follow this procedure to specify customer-managed encryption when you create a file share.



1. In the [IBM Cloud console](https://cloud.ibm.com/login), go to menu icon ![menu icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/icons/icon_hamburger.svg) > VPC Infrastructure > Storage > File Shares.
2. Click Create.
3. Enter the information that is described in the Table 1. While you create the share, specify the information for the mount target as well.



Table 1. Values for creating a file share and mount target.
* Order a stand-alone service license, such as Caveonix or Veeam®



For services that charge per host, promo codes apply only to the hosts in the order or in the current environment. Examples of such services are HCX™, Entrust CloudControl™, and VMware Aria® Operations™ and VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs.

You can use one promo code per order. Multiple promo codes are not allowed. However, you can use a promo code multiple times per account. A promo code might apply to multiple services, for example, Veeam and Caveonix RiskForesight™.

After you start an order, enter the promo code for your services in the promo code box and click Apply. If you decide to use a different promo code, enter that code in the box and click Apply again to calculate a new price.

If you apply a promo code for a service and then delete the service from your order, you must also remove the promo code from the order.

Promotion pricing starts when the promo code is applied. The pricing is automatically changed to the recurring price when the promotion period ends. You can see the discounts, promotion price, and recurring price in the PDF file generated for your order.





 Resource requirements for services 

Some services require a minimum amount of resources to be installed.

For certain services, the system completes a capacity check on the targeted clusters before it installs the service in your environment. The check is completed against the available capacity of the targeted cluster in the environment to ensure that the service components can fit.

During deployment, if the capacity check fails, the service is not installed and the service status is set to Capacity Validation Failed on the console. In addition, a console message with more details is displayed and you are notified by email. The message displays the expected capacity for all services that do not meet the requirements.

To install the service, you must increase the capacity in your cluster either by adding more VMware ESXi™ servers or by freeing up RAM, CPU, or disk space. After that, you can add the service or services again. To remove the existing service in the Capacity Validation Failed state, click the Delete icon !
8.80 USD + 0 USD = 8.80 USD

Since there were no agents running in this example, the base price and additional containers costs were not applicable to this example.





 Billing sample 4: Host allotment and platform metrics combined 

The following configuration demonstrates billing for a combination of host time-series allotment as well as platform metrics.

Consider the following example where you have the following configuration:



* 3 hosts running agents for orchestrated environments



* Host-1 generates 1000 custom metrics time-series
* Host-2 generates 850 custom metrics time-series
* Host-3 generates 800 custom metrics time-series



* Cloud Foundry generates 200 time-series per month
* Event Streams generates 200 time-series per month
* IBM Cloud Databases generates 100 time-series per month
* 100 containers
* 300k API calls



The billing calculation for the month would look like:



* Base cost per host

The price per host per month is 36 USD which includes up to 1K time-series (includes Prometheus, JMX, appchecks, and StatsD metrics) and 50 containers.

For 3 hosts, the total cost is 108 USD.

3 * 36 USD = 108 USD
* Additional time-series cost

Each host has a 1000 time-series allotment. The remaining time-series are priced based on the tiers. In this case, 150 time-series.

1000 + 850 + 800 + 200 + 200 + 100 - ( 31000 ) = 150

The result from adding the time series per host, plus the platform metrics minus the allotment defines the tier that is applied for pricing.

Notice that since the Base cost per host time-series allotment was not completely used by the agents, 350 of the 500 platform metrics time-series were covered by the base tier. Only the additional 150 platform metrics time-series (500 - 350 = 150)have an additional cost.

150 * 0.08 USD (Tier-1) = 12 USD

The total cost for time-series is 12 USD.



The total monitoring cost per month is 117 USD.

108 USD + 12 USD = 120 USD
Quotas and service limits 

The following information shows quotas and limits for IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud and the resources available within it.



 Quotas 

The following tables show the quotas for various VPC resources.

To increase a quota for a particular resource, [contact support](https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form).



 Compute resources 



Table 1. Quotas for virtual server instances

 Resource Quota 

 vCPU 200 per region 
 RAM 5600 GB per region 
 Bare metal servers 25 per account 
 Instance storage 18 TB per region 
 Floating IP addresses 40 per zone 
 SSH keys 200 per account 
 GPU 16 per account 
 Dedicated host groups 100 per region 
 Storage optimized (ox2) instance storage 96 TB per region 



When you provision virtual server instances dedicated hosts, the vCPU, RAM, and solid-state drives, which are associated with the instances count toward the vCPU, RAM, and instance storage quotas per region. Instances that are provisioned on dedicated hosts do not count against the vCPU quota. For more information, see [About instance storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-instance-storage).

Bare metal servers use physical cores and don't count toward your vCPU quota.





 VPCs 



Table 2. Quotas for the VPC service

 Resource Quota 

 Virtual private clouds 10 per region 
 Subnets 15 per VPC 
 Address prefixes 25 per VPC 







 Access control lists 



Table 3. Quotas for access control lists

 Resource Quota 

 ACLs 25 per VPC 
 Rules 100 per ACL 







 Security groups 



Table 4. Quotas for security groups

 Resource Quota 

 Security groups 50 per VPC 
 Rules 50 per security group 
 Network interfaces 1000 per security group 







 VPN gateways (site-to-site) 



Table 5. Quotas for the site-to-site VPN gateway service

 Resource Quota 

 VPN gateways 9 per region, 3 per zone 
 VPN connections 10 per VPN gateway 
 IKE policies 20 per region 
 IPSec policies 20 per region
See [Creating an Interface Endpoint](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpce-interface.htmlcreate-interface-endpoint). Ensure that TCP traffic is allowed through ports 50001, 443, and 8443 on the VPC, and set rules to allow traffic from the CIDR range associated with the VPC.





 Considerations and limitations 



* AWS PrivateLink currently supports only TCP traffic. Tools that rely on UDP traffic are not supported by PrivateLink. To load data, load directly from Amazon S3 into Db2 Warehouse on Cloud. See [Loading data from Amazon S3](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/Db2whc?topic=Db2whc-load_s3).

Extra charges might apply when you transfer data by using the public endpoint.
* You must create the Endpoint Service for accessing Db2 Warehouse on Cloud in the same AWS region where the Db2 Warehouse on Cloud instance is deployed. To access your instance from other AWS regions, you can use VPC Peering. See [Example: Services Using AWS PrivateLink and VPC Peering](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-peer-region-example.html).
* For the current generation of plans on AWS, connectivity to the web UI is available only over the public network, even if you have enabled PrivateLink. This restriction is temporary, and will be removed in an upcoming update.



For more information about AWS PrivateLink, see [Interface VPC Endpoints (AWS PrivateLink)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpce-interface.html).