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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive user experience, and built-in security for rapid delivery of apps that you can bind to cloud services that are related to IBM Watson®, AI, IoT, DevOps, security, and data analytics. As a certified Kubernetes provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The service also has advanced capabilities around simplified cluster management, container security and isolation policies, the ability to design your own cluster, and integrated operational tools for consistency in deployment.

For a detailed overview of capabilities and benefits, see [Benefits of using the service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-cs_ovbenefits).
* Can I get a free cluster?

The free tier option is deprecated and will be unsupported on 25 July 2023. Existing free tier clusters will be allowed to finish their 30-day trial window. If you want to try IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, [contact IBM Sales](https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=MAIL-wcp).

You can have 1 free cluster at a time in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, and each free cluster expires in 30 days. Free clusters are ideal for testing out Kubernetes deployments and getting familiar with the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service API, CLI, and console tools. After you are done testing your free cluster, you can [copy your configuration files and redeploy them to a standard cluster](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-update_appcopy_apps_cluster).
* What container platforms are available for my cluster?

With IBM Cloud, you can create clusters for your containerized workloads from two different container management platforms: the IBM version of community Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. The container platform that you select is installed on your cluster master and worker nodes.
IBM Cloud for VMware Regulated Workloads architecture 

Another architectural option for the IBM Cloud for Financial Services is the [IBM Cloud for VMware Regulated Workloads reference architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vrw-archi-overview). The architecture is an extension of the VMware vCenter Server® offering. Its design extends and enhances the basic vCenter Server architecture to deliver a secure, high-performance platform. You're able to run both classic virtualized workloads and containerized applications with the addition of Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
Ordering 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 using best practice guidelines of each vendor to ensure maximum stability and availability.

For more information about supported software, see [IBM Cloud® software solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalogsoftware).

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 is not 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, see the documentation of the vendor who produces the software.
Then, you can access and manage the IBM-hosted environment through the native VMware clients, command-line interface (CLI), existing scripts, or other familiar vSphere API-compatible tools.

Post deployment, you can add to (and remove from) VMware ESXi™ servers for an instance, add and remove clusters, join additional vCenter Server instances to an existing instance, and add products and services by using the VMware Solutions console. It is your responsibility to monitor and manage the vCenter Server instances.

Your responsibility includes backups, patching, configuration, and monitoring of the VMware software and the underlying hypervisor hardware. IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions offers automated solutions to help with the ongoing management and monitoring of the vCenter Server instance.

In addition, IBM Cloud Professional Services and Managed Services are also available to help accelerate your journey to the cloud with offerings like migration, implementation, and onboarding services.

Unlike a managed service offering, vCenter Server gives you full and complete access to all components that allows for a greater flexibility than what a managed service might offer. However, certain constraints apply to allow the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions automation to function, post vCenter Server deployment.

The VMware Solutions offerings bring the following benefits:



* Accelerating delivery of IT projects for developers and lines of business. The time that it takes for procurement, architecture, implementation, and deployment of resources is reduced from weeks or even months, to hours.
* Enhancing security with dedicated IBM Cloud bare metal servers in a hosted private cloud, including the encryption of data at rest. For vSAN storage, encryption of data at rest is optional by using either vSAN or vSphere encryption. For shared file–level or block storage, service–provider–managed encryption at rest is available by default in select data centers or it is optional by using vSphere encryption. You must manage the necessary encryption keys.
* Enabling consistent management and governance of the deployed hybrid cloud by providing full administrative access to virtualization management, thus preserving your existing VMware tools, scripts, and investments in training.
* Using VMware expertise at global scale with IBM Professional and Managed Services spanning 40+ IBM Cloud data centers worldwide.







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It looks into enhanced data encryption, isolation of compute runtimes and network traffic, and by using activity logs to look for suspicious activities.

![solution tutorial icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/media/docs/images/homepage/solution-tutorial.svg) [Enterprise account architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/enterprise-account-architecture)Enterprise account architecture White paper

A generalized recommendation for how large customers should configure and govern IBM Cloud at scale.

![White paper icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/media/docs/images/homepage/white-paper.svg) [Getting Started with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-vmware-solutions-shared-getting-started)Getting Started with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared Solution tutorial

On IBM Cloud there are a number of deployment offerings for VMware that you can choose from, with each providing a different level of abstraction. VMware Cloud Director (VCD) is offered under the banner of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared. It is a multi-tenant service with elasticity and two subscription types:

![solution tutorial icon](https://cloud.ibm.com/media/docs/images/homepage/solution-tutorial.svg) [Hosting web applications from a secure private network](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-web-app-private-network)Hosting web applications from a secure private network Solution tutorial

This tutorial takes you through the creation of a scalable and secure Internet facing web application hosted in private network secured using a virtual router appliance (VRA), VLANs, NAT and firewalls. The application comprises a load balancer, two web application servers and a MySQL database server. It combines three tutorials to illustrate how web applications can be securely deployed on the IBM Cloud IaaS platform using classic networking.

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: The delivery of a computing platform, including applications, optimized middleware, development tools, and Java and Web 2.0 runtime environments, in a cloud-based environment.

Categories of third-party services that fit within the service types include:



* Container services that help build containerized applications
* Storage services for persistent cloud storage and data encryption
* AI and machine learning services (by integrating with IBM Watson)
* Analytics services for analyzing data to deploy in cognitive applications
* Blockchain services for data exchange
* Database services for high availability, enhanced security, and scalable performance
* Developer and migration tool services
* Logging and monitoring services for detecting and troubleshooting issues
* Integration services for faster integration
* Internet of Things services for working with application data
* Security services for enterprise-grade cloud security
* Mobile services for building and starting mobile applications



The process includes registering your service with IBM Cloud, defining your product and its pricing plans, and linking a broker. For more information, see [Getting set up to sell services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-get-started).
VMware Shared overview 

The IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions Shared offering provides standardized and customizable deployment choices of VMware® virtual data center environments. With VMware Shared virtual data centers, you can quickly and seamlessly migrate or deploy VMware workloads to the cloud, on IBM-hosted VMware infrastructure. IBM provides a self-service on-demand VMware cloud computing platform with VMware Cloud Director running on IBM Cloud. This Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on-demand offering provides the option to use specific virtual CPU (vCPU), storage, vRAM, Network, and IP, as needed.

VMware Shared has the following IaaS subscription service types:



* Multitenant on-demand virtual data centers
* Multitenant reserved virtual data centers



You can manage the lifecycle of virtual data centers by using VMware Shared. The following functions are supported when you use the VMware Cloud Director Management console or public API:



* Virtual data center creation
* Virtual data center elasticity
* Virtual data center deletion



VMware Shared comes standard with five public IP addresses on an NSX Edge Service Gateway with unlimited ingress over the public network.

Virtual data centers incur charges for the following components:



* Storage allocations with tiered pricing based on storage performance
* vCPU usage
* Virtual memory usage
* Egress on public networking
* Commercial operating system licenses used
* Optional VMware services





 VMware Shared architecture 

The following graphic depicts the high-level architecture and components of VMware Shared deployment.

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![VMware Shared architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/vmwaresolutions/images/vclouddirector-architecture-public.svg)

Figure 1. VMware Shared architecture



 VMware Cloud Director 

This layer represents the management interface. VMware Cloud Director provides role-based access to a web-based tenant portal.
IBM Cloud Private Hosted 

The IBM Cloud® Private Hosted service is no longer supported. Use the [Red Hat OpenShift for VMware](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-ocp_overview) service instead.

The IBM Cloud Private Hosted service automatically deploys IBM Cloud Private Hosted and IBM Cloud Automation Manager on your VMware vCenter Server® instances. This service brings the power of microservices and containers to your VMware® environment on IBM Cloud. With this service, you can extend the same familiar VMware and IBM Cloud Private operational model and tools from on-premises into the IBM Cloud.



  Deploying additional nodes 

If you want to deploy additional nodes, review the following information:



*  Use the IBM Cloud Private Ubuntu template (Ubuntu1604) that is deployed with your initial IBM Cloud Private Hosted installation.
*  To find the Ubuntu template, in the VMware vSphere® Web Client, go to the VMs and Templates tab, under the cam folder.
*  The default password for the Ubuntu template is icponcloud. It is recommended that you change this password before you use the template.
*  IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions does not offer support for applying updates and patches for the Ubuntu template. You must monitor and apply these updates yourself.







  Considerations when you delete IBM Cloud Private Hosted 



*  Only the virtual machines (VMs) that were deployed during the initial installation of the IBM Cloud Private Hosted service are deleted. Any node that is deployed after the installation is not cleaned up.
*  IBM Cloud deletes the VXLAN, DLR, and the Edge Gateway that was created during the initial deployment of IBM Cloud Private Hosted. The VMs that you deployed on VXLAN will lose connectivity after the removal of the IBM Cloud Private Hosted service is started.
* IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
* IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud®
* IBM Cloud® Object Storage
* IBM Cloud® Continuous Delivery
* IBM Cloud Logging and Monitoring
* App ID





 Step 1: Containerize apps by using microservices 



* Structure apps into a set of cooperative microservices that run within IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service based on functional areas of the app and its dependencies.
* Deploy apps to container images that run in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.
* Provide standardized DevOps dashboards through Kubernetes.
* Enable scaling of compute resources for batch and other inventory workloads that run infrequently.







 Step 2: Ensure global availability 



* Built-in HA tools in IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service balance the workload within each geographic region, including self-healing and load balancing.
* Load-balancing, firewalls, and DNS are handled by IBM Cloud Internet Services.
* Using the toolchains and Helm deployment tools, the apps are also deployed to clusters across the globe, so workloads and data meet regional requirements, especially personalization.







 Step 3: Understand users 



* App ID provides sign-on capabilities without needing to change app code.
* After users have signed in, you can use App ID to create profiles and personalize a user's experience of your application.







 Step 4: Share data 



* IBM Cloud® Object Storage plus IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud® provides real-time and historical data storage, so that cross-sales offers represent available inventory from business partners.
* APIs allow the retailer’s business partners to share data into their e-commerce and B2B apps.







 Step 5: Deliver continuously 



* Debugging the co-developed APIs becomes simpler when they add on IBM Cloud Logging and Monitoring tools, cloud-based ones that are accessible to the various Developers.
* IBM Cloud® Continuous Delivery helps Developers to quickly provision an integrated toolchain by using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties, and open source. Automate builds and tests, controlling quality with analytics.
* 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. For more information, see [Getting set up to sell software](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-sw-getting-started) and [Onboarding your software](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sell?topic=sell-sw-validate).





 Services 

Managed services help run the infrastructure in your own account and to deploy instances by using the IBM Cloud. 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.

When you onboard your service, you must select the type of service that you are onboarding. Your service type is used for tax assessment purposes. IBM Cloud supports three types of services:

Software as a service
: A model of software deployment in which the software that includes business processes, enterprise applications, and collaboration tools, are provided as a service to customers through the cloud.

Infrastructure as a service
: The delivery of a compute infrastructure, including server functionality, networking functionality, data center functionality, and storage functionality as an outsourced service.

Platform as a service
: The delivery of a computing platform, including applications, optimized middleware, development tools, and Java and Web 2.0 runtime environments, in a cloud-based environment.

Categories of third-party services that fit within the service types include:



* Container services that help build containerized applications
* Storage services for persistent cloud storage and data encryption
* AI and machine learning services (by integrating with IBM Watson)
* Analytics services for analyzing data to deploy in cognitive applications
VMware Solutions components 

IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions provides automation to deploy VMware® technology components into IBM Cloud® data centers across the globe.

The offerings in this solution portfolio include VMware vSphere® products within an automatically deployed and configured cluster: VMware vSphere ESXi™, VMware vCenter Server® Appliance with an embedded Platform Services Controller (PSC), VMware NSX-T™, and optionally, VMware vSAN™.

The architecture consists of a single cloud region. You can extend into more cloud regions that are located in another geography and in another IBM Cloud pod within the same data center. A region is defined as a unique vCenter Server instance. This design also allows for automated expansion and contraction of virtual capacity within a vCenter Server instance.

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![Solution components of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/vmwaresolutions/images/vcsv4radiagrams-ra-full.svg)

Figure 1. Solution components of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions



  Related links 



*  [Virtual infrastructure design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_virtualinfrastructure)
*  [Common services design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_commonservice)
*  [Infrastructure management design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_infrastructuremgmt)
They need a solution that helps the Developers and their users.



* FRONT-END TO EXISTING BENEFITS: insurance, educational offerings, wellness, and more
* REGION-SPECIFIC FEATURES: each country has unique HR policies so that the overall site might look similar but show region-specific benefits
* DEVELOPER-FRIENDLY TOOLS that accelerate rollout of features and bug fixes
* CHATBOT to provide authentic conversations about benefits and resolve users requests and questions efficiently.



Technical solution:



* IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
* IBM Cloud® Continuous Delivery
* IBM Logging and Monitoring
* IBM® Secure Gateway for IBM Cloud®
* IBM Cloud App ID



Accelerated development is a key win for the HR Exec. The team gets started by containerizing their apps and putting them in the cloud. With the use of modern containers, Developers can experiment easily with Node.js SDK and push changes to Development and Test systems, which are scaled out on separate clusters. Those pushes were automated with open toolchains and IBM Cloud® Continuous Delivery. No longer were updates to the HR site languishing in slow, error-prone build processes. They can deliver incremental updates to their site, daily or even more frequently. Moreover, logging and monitoring for the HR site is rapidly integrated, especially for how the site pulls personalized data from back-end benefit systems. Developers don’t waste time building complex logging systems, just to be able to troubleshoot live systems. Developers don't need to become experts in cloud security, they can enforce policy driven authentication easily by using IBM Cloud App ID.

With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, they went from over-built hardware in a private data center to customizable compute that reduces IT operations, maintenance, and energy. To host the HR site, they could easily design Kubernetes clusters to fit their CPU, RAM, and storage needs. Another factor for less personnel costs is that IBM manages Kubernetes, so the Developers can focus on delivering better employee experience for benefits enrollment.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides scalable compute resources and the associated DevOps dashboards to create, scale, and tear down apps and services as needed. Using industry-standard containers technology apps can be quickly developed and shared across multiple Development, Test, and Production environments.
Overview of IBM Cloud® for SAP 



 Introduction 

IBM Cloud® for SAP is for enterprises who believe that empowering their SAP workloads also empowers their business. IBM Cloud® for SAP provides your enterprise with full cloud capabilities. So you can run your mission-critical SAP workloads with secure, reliable, and compliant infrastructure, and take advantage of options to append more cloud services to transform the business.

Our IBM Cloud® for SAP offerings are designed based on over 50+ years of IBM-SAP expertise (since 1972). The on-demand flexible compute options for various SAP Business Application scenarios range from cloud-native SAP and burst compute all the way to high performance with enterprise-grade availability.

Our IBM and SAP multi-decade alliance is why IBM was selected as one of SAP’s strategic infrastructure providers for hybrid cloud. Support for SAP's suite of products is available through the highly scalable, open, and security-rich IBM Cloud. With this partnership, SAP applications can expand to major markets; this expansion is made possible by more than 60 IBM Cloud data centers worldwide.

IBM Cloud® for SAP was [launched in late 2014](https://news.sap.com/2014/10/ibm-and-sap-partner-enterprise-cloud-adoption/), with our SAP HANA certified Bare Metals as a strategic partner with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC). Our SAP HANA certified Bare Metals were first released as Infrastructure-as-a-Service in early 2017, the first Cloud Service Provider to provide high-performance Bare Metal IaaS for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver.

Using various configurations of the SAP Technical Applications, you can confidently run SAP Business Applications such as:



* SAP S/4HANA
* SAP BW/4HANA
* SAP BO-BI
* SAP CAR
* ...more



Our rigorous certification process with SAP ensures that your workloads are supported.

We deliver these cloud capabilities for SAP to improve your business, and provide more solutions from SAP Partners to accelerate your SAP implementations.

IBM provides you with the most powerful available cloud building blocks so that you can design and implement SAP landscapes that meet your current business needs and your requirements for the future.