vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
Managing F5 BIG-IP 



  Accessing the BIG-IP web UI consoles 

To manage the F5 BIG-IP® service, log in to the primary or secondary BIG-IP web UI consoles by using the corresponding credentials. You can find the corresponding credentials on the F5 BIG-IP service details page.

For more information about viewing the service details, see [Ordering services for vCenter Server instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_addingservices).





  Related links 



*  [F5 BIG-IP overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-f5_considerations)
*  [Contacting IBM® Support](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-trbl_support)
*  [FAQ](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-faq-vmwaresolutions)
*  [F5 website](https://www.f5.com/)
Networking overview for Bare Metal Servers on VPC 

The following information is an overview of the networking features of Bare Metal Servers for VPC. Make sure that you go through this information before you build a network on bare metal servers. Keep in mind that this information is for users with basic network knowledge of IBM Cloud® VPC. If you aren't familiar with VPC networking, see [About networking](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-networking-for-vpc).



* Bare Metal Server for VPC provides full support for VPC networking features. The network is fully software-defined, so you can configure it through the API.
* Each bare metal server supports 100 Gbps bandwidth. The bandwidth is shared by the network interfaces that are on the bare metal server.
* For more information about managing network interfaces, see [Managing network interfaces for a bare metal server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-managing-nic-for-bare-metal-servers).
* If you're using VMWare vSphere networking, see [Introduction to vSphere Networking](https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-8CDF29B2-ABA8-4F34-9FEF-14987BC13265.html).





 Bare metal server network interfaces 

You can create two types of network interfaces on a bare metal server:



Table 1. Types of network interfaces for bare metal servers

 Network interface Description 

 PCI (peripheral component interconnect) A physical network interface. 
 VLAN (virtual LAN) interface A virtual network interface that is associated with a PCI interface through the VLAN ID. The VLAN interface automatically tags traffic that is routed through it with the VLAN ID. Inbound traffic that is tagged with a VLAN ID is directed to the appropriate VLAN interface. 





 PCI and VLAN interface characteristics 

The following list highlights characteristics of the PCI and VLAN interfaces.
<14>1 2023-02-07T20:20:15.600724+00:00 vcsobserv-vc vpxd 6757 - - Event [125101] [1-1] [2023-02-07T20:20:15.599975Z] [vim.event.EventEx] [info] [com.vmware.vim.eam] [] [125101] [Successful login by com.vmware.nsx.management.nsxt into vSphere ESX Agent Manager]
<14>1 2023-02-07T20:36:45.158077+00:00 vcsobserv-vc vpxd 6757 - - Event [125120] [1-1] [2023-02-07T20:36:45.157198Z] [vim.event.UserLoginSessionEvent] [info] [VSPHERE.LOCALvpxd-extension-xxxxx] [] [125120] [User VSPHERE.LOCALvpxd-extension-xxxxxe@xx.xxx.xxx.xxx logged in as VMware vim-java 1.0]





 VMware vSphere Logs 

You can collect logs that are generated by different components in the vSphere vCenter deployment.

The following table lists common log files that are generated by vCenter Server deployments.



Table 1. Common log files

 Component Description 

 applmgmt Logs that report the health of executable operations for the Appliance REST APIs. 
 applmgmt-audit Logs that report on authentication requests to the VMware Appliance Management Service. 
 cloudvm Logs that report allotment and distribution of resources between services. 
 rhttpproxy Logs that report on the VMware HTTP Reverse Proxy service. 
 sca Logs that report on the VMware Service Control Agent service. 
 vapi Logs that report on the VMware vAPI Endpoint service. 
 vmafdd Logs that report on the VMware Authentication Framework LDAP service. 
 vmdird Logs that report on the VMware Directory Service LDAP service.
These servers can have direct layer 2 private network access to bare metal database servers and other more intensive workloads.





 Fully customizable 

You can build-to-suit any virtual server with a number of options. With no pre-defined package requirements, you can tune each server to the workload it supports.





 Rapid provisioning 

Virtual servers are provisioned in as few as 5 minutes, giving you minimal wait time between order and provisioning.





 Remote management 

Like all of our services and solutions, you can manage your virtual servers remotely. View and manage all of your device details by using the IBM Cloud console or SoftLayer API. You can also interact with the server through the provided KVM functions or log in to the server with full administrative control through the public or private interfaces.





 Easily scalable 

After you provision a virtual server, you can quickly and easily scale your instance up or down and add or remove extra instances on demand. You can take an image template of the server after it is configured and tuned, and then create more virtual servers based on that original image.
Demo: Network as a service 

IBM Cloud® network services, including load balancers, security groups, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) make it easy to build cloud-native applications with greater security, performance, and resiliency. In this demo, you’ll learn how you can use these services to create a simple three-tiered web app in a matter of clicks.
* IBM Cloud network that consist of VLANs, subnets, Frontend, and Backend Customer Routers (FCR/BCR).
* vSAN storage, which is a consolidated datastore from the SSDs in the IBM Cloud bare metal servers or Endurance storage.



* Virtual Infrastructure Layer - The virtual infrastructure layer runs on top of the physical layer components. The virtual infrastructure layer controls the access to the underlying physical infrastructure, and controls and allocates resources to the management and compute workloads. The management workloads consist of elements in the virtual infrastructure layer itself, together with elements in the cloud management, service management, business continuity, and security layers.
* Business Continuity Layer - This layer contains elements to support business continuity by providing data backup, restoration, and disaster recovery. For more information, see the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions backup and restoration architecture, Veeam, and Zerto disaster recovery reference architectures.
* Security Layer - This layer contains the elements to reduce risk and increase compliance. For more information, see the Fortinet®, F5®, NSX, Entrust, and Caveonix reference architectures.



This document is adding the following layer into the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions architecture:



* Operations Management Layer - The architecture of the operations management layer includes management components that support the physical and virtual layers and optionally the compute workloads in real time. The operations management layer understands the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions topology: physical, virtual, compute, networking, and storage resources. The operations management layer consists primarily of monitoring and logging functions.

Information is collected in the following forms:



* Metrics - structured data such as performance and capacity
* Logs - unstructured data such as system events



The Operations Management Layer consist of the following tools:



* VMware Aria® Operations™ Manager - This tool uses data that is collected from system resources (objects) to identify issues in the monitored system components. For many issues VMware Aria® Automation™ suggests the corrective action that you can take to fix the issue. For more challenging issues, VMware Aria Operations offers rich analytical tools to; reveal hidden issues, investigate complex technical problems, identify trends, or drill down to gauge the health of a single object.
About virtual private endpoint gateways 

IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Endpoints (VPE) for VPC enables you to connect to supported IBM Cloud services from your VPC network by using the IP addresses of your choosing, allocated from a subnet within your VPC.

VPE is an evolution of the private connectivity to IBM Cloud services. VPEs are virtual IP interfaces that are bound to an endpoint gateway created on a per service, or service instance, basis (depending on the service operation model). The endpoint gateway is a virtualized function that scales horizontally, is redundant and highly available, and spans all availability zones of your VPC. Endpoint gateways enable communications from virtual server instances within your VPC and IBM Cloud® service on the private backbone. VPE for VPC gives you the experience of controlling all the private addressing within your cloud.

Similar to service endpoints, VPE for VPC provides private connectivity to IBM services, but within the VPC network of your choosing.



 Overview of features 

The features of VPE for VPC include:



* Public connectivity is not required and has no public data egress charges.
* Reaches IBM Cloud assets through a private service provider.
* A VPE lives in your network address space, extending your private and multicloud into the IBM Cloud.
* You can apply security through Network Access Control Lists (NACLs).
* The endpoint IP deploys in a customer-defined, virtual network.
* Includes platform integration to VPC - Identity and Access Management (IAM), network ACLs, security groups, and tagging.
* Access to new endpoints is achieved through the UI, CLI, and API.
* You can map a new endpoint to an existing service, as well as map to a shared endpoint.
* Integrates with DNS Services.

When creating an endpoint gateway, a DNS zone and records are created. The VPE service automatically upgrades your virtual server instances to use the private DNS as the default DNS resolver. For more information, see [DNS Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dns-svcs?topic=dns-svcs-getting-started).







 Supported services
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 Services for VMware Shared instances 

The following preinstalled services are available for your virtual data center based on your needs.



* [Managing Veeam for VMware Shared](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-shared_veeam)
* [Managing Zerto for VMware Shared](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-shared_zerto-portal)



Service charges are incurred only if you choose to use the service.





 Configuration limits for VMware Cloud Director 

Review [VMware Cloud Director 10.4 Configuration Limits](https://configmax.esp.vmware.com/guest?vmwareproduct=%20VMware%20Cloud%20Director&release=VMware%20Cloud%20Director%2010.4&categories=35-0) to ensure that you understand configuration limits in VMware Cloud Director.



 10,000 vApps per Cloud Director organization 

One of the configuration limits in VMware Cloud Director is a maximum of 10,000 vApps per Cloud Director organization. In VMware Shared, this means you cannot have more than 10,000 vApps in a single account in a particular site location since each site location is the same Cloud Director instance. For more information about sites and VMware Cloud Director, see [VMware Shared overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-shared_overview).

If you need more than 10,000 vApps in a single account, consider the following design options.



* Increase the number of virtual machines in each vApp.
* Use a separate account in that region to host additional vApps.



The number of VMware Shared instances (or virtual data centers) do not impact this limit.







 Related links
VPE for VPC provides private connectivity to select IBM Cloud services originating from the VPC network of your choosing, without traversing the public backbone. All connectivity is contained within IBM Cloud. By using a service that supports VPE for VPC, you can connect to the service from your VPC network by assigning the IP address of your choosing, which is allocated from a subnet within your VPC.

VPEs are virtual IP interfaces that are bound to an endpoint gateway created on a per service or service instance basis, depending on the service operation model. The endpoint gateway is a virtualized function that scales horizontally, is redundant and highly available, and spans all availability zones of your VPC. Endpoint gateways enable communications from virtual server instances in your VPC to IBM Cloud services, with all traffic going over the IBM Cloud backbone. VPE for VPC gives you the experience of controlling all the private addressing within your cloud.

For more information, see [About virtual private endpoint gateways](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-vpe).





 IBM Cloud service endpoints 

For classic infrastructure users, the cloud service endpoints feature provides the option of using private routes to connect to IBM Cloud services. These private routes are not accessible or reachable over the internet. You can protect your data from threats from the public network and logically extend your private network. This capability enables an enterprise with strict security requirements to have confidence in moving workloads to the IBM public cloud.

For more information, see [Enabling virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and service endpoints](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-vrf-service-endpoint).
Physical infrastructure design 

The physical infrastructure consists of the following components:



* Physical compute - The physical compute provides the physical processing and memory that is used by the virtualization infrastructure. For this design, the compute components are provided by IBM Cloud® bare metal servers and are listed in the [VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide (HCG)](https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php).
* Physical storage - The physical storage provides the raw storage capacity that is used by the virtualization infrastructure. Storage components are provided either by IBM Cloud bare metal servers or by shared Network Attached Storage (NAS) array that uses NFS v3.
* Physical network - The physical network provides the network connectivity into the environment that is then used by the network virtualization. The network is provided by the IBM Cloud services network and it includes extra services such as DNS and NTP.



For more information about the physical components, see [vCenter Server BOM](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_bom).

For more information about storage, see [Shared storage architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-storage-benefitsstorage-benefits).

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![Physical infrastructure](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/vmwaresolutions/images/vcsv4radiagrams-ra-physinfra.svg)

Figure 1. Physical infrastructure



 Physical compute design 

The server configurations available in the solution meet or exceed the minimum requirements to install, configure, and manage vSphere ESXi™. Various configurations are available to satisfy different requirements.
[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. The portal allows the members of an organization to interact with the organization's resources to create and work with vApps and virtual machines (VMs). The supported version of VMware Cloud Director (vCD) is v10.4.1 and it supports up to virtual hardware version 19.





 Organization 

An organization is a unit of administration for a collection of users, groups, and computing resources. Users authenticate at the organization level, supplying credentials established by an organization administrator when the user was created or imported. Organization administrators manage organization users, groups, and catalogs.



 Users and policies 

An organization can contain an arbitrary number of users and groups. Users can be created locally by the organization administrator or imported from a directory service such as LDAP. Permissions within an organization are controlled through the assignment of privileges and roles to users and groups.





 Catalogs 

Organizations use catalogs to store vApp templates and media files. The members of an organization that have access to a catalog can use the catalog's vApp templates and media files to create their own vApps. Organizations administrators can copy items from public catalogs to their organization catalog.





 Virtual data centers 

An Organization virtual data center provides resources to an organization. Virtual data centers provide an environment where virtual systems can be stored, deployed, and operated. They also provide storage for virtual CD and DVD media. An organization can have multiple virtual data centers.

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Working with Edge functions 

IBM Cloud® Internet Services Edge functions allow you to create or modify existing applications, without having to configure or maintain infrastructure, by using a serverless execution environment. Edge functions can be defined and uploaded to the Cloud edge to process requests before they reach the origin. CIS Edge functions can be used to modify HTTP requests and responses, make parallel requests, or generate responses from the Cloud edge.



 How Edge functions work 

Edge functions associates actions with URIs based on a defined domain. This association is called a trigger. Incoming requests to your site are intercepted at the Cloud edge and matched against the triggers in your account or domain. If the request URL matches the trigger's URI, the action associated with the trigger is run.

Edge functions are modeled on the [Service Worker API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API) available in modern web browsers, and use the same API whenever possible.

The Service Worker API allows you to intercept any request that is made to your site. After your JavaScript is handling the request, you can elect to make any number of subrequests to your site or others, and finally return a response to your visitor.

Unlike standard service workers, Edge functions run on CIS edge servers, not in the user’s browser. That means you can trust that your code runs in a trusted environment where it cannot be bypassed by malicious clients. It also means that the user does not need to be using a modern browser that supports service workers – you can even intercept requests from API clients that aren't browsers.

Internally, Edge functions use the same V8 JavaScript engine, which is used in the Chrome browser to run workers on our infrastructure. V8 dynamically compiles your JavaScript code into ultra-fast machine code, enhancing performance. This makes it possible for your code to run in microseconds, and for our edge server to run many thousands of scripts per second.

While Edge functions does use V8, it does not use Node.js. The JavaScript APIs available to you inside workers are implemented by us directly.
Ports for services 

The following topics provide information about the ports that are used by the services.



 Ports for Caveonix RiskForesight 

The following table provides information about the Caveonix RiskForesight™ ports.



Table 1. Caveonix RiskForesight ports

 Source Subnet, IP range Target Subnet, IP range Port Protocol Purpose Service 

 Caveonix New subnet ordered in private VLAN VMware vCenter Server® Infrastructure VMs 443 TCP Use vCenter Server REST service HTTPS 
 Caveonix New subnet ordered in private VLAN Windows® Active Directory™ Private primary subnet <br>Infrastructure VMs 53 UDP Use Windows DNS service DNS 
 Caveonix New subnet ordered in private VLAN IBM Cloud infrastructure Redis service IBM Cloud infrastructure services network 6379 TCP Use IBM Cloud infrastructure Redis service 
 IBM CloudDriver Private primary subnet <br>Infrastructure VMs Caveonix New subnet ordered in private VLAN 1337 TCP Set up and configure Caveonix 
 IBM CloudDriver Private primary subnet <br>Infrastructure VMs Caveonix New subnet ordered in private VLAN 8080 TCP Set up and configure Caveonix 







 Ports for F5 BIG-IP 

The following table provides information about the F5 BIG-IP® ports.



Table 2. F5 BIG-IP ports

 Source Subnet, IP range Target Subnet, IP range Port Protocol Purpose Service 

 BigIP New subnet ordered in private VLAN Windows Active Directory Private primary subnet <br>Infrastructure VMs 53 UDP Use Windows DNS service DNS 
 Management-nsx-edge public IP Public subnet for management edge BigIP license server 104.219.111.132/32 443 TCP License registration HTTPS 







 Ports for FortiGate Virtual Appliance 

The following table provides information about the FortiGate® virtual appliance ports.



Table 3. FortiGate Virtual Appliance ports

 Source Subnet, IP range Target Subnet, IP range Port Protocol Purpose Service 

 Management-nsx-edge public IP Public subnet for management edge Fortinet® servers 208.91.112.0/22 443 TCP FortiGate installation HTTPS
You can enable virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) to move IP routing for your account and all of its resources into a separate routing table. If VRF is enabled, you can then enable IBM Cloud service endpoints to connect directly to resources without using the public network. [Enabling VRF and service endpoints](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-vrf-service-endpoint).
* Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) are automatically enabled for virtual routing and forwarding (VRF). To enable service endpoints for your VPC, continue to [Enabling service endpoints](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-vrf-service-endpointservice-endpoint).



For example, to check if the account is VRF enabled, run the following command:

ibmcloud account show

To enable private endpoints, run the following command:

ibmcloud account update --service-endpoint-enable true





 Step 2: Disable public endpoints in the account 

To disable public endpoints, run the following command:

ibmcloud atracker setting update --private-api-endpoint-only TRUE





 Step 3: Check you have access to private endpoints 

After you disable public endpoints, you must configure Activity Tracker Event Routing within the private network.

For example, to configure Activity Tracker Event Routing in your account, you can provision a VPC VSI. Then, from a terminal, you can run cURL commands to create a target and a route.

Complete the following steps to provision a VPC VSI so that you can run cURL commands to create a target and a route in your account:



1. [Generate an ssh key](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ssh-keys).
2. [Create a VSI](https://test.cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-creating-virtual-servers) in your account.
3.