vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
[Reserved virtual server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-reserved-virtual-serversabout-reserved-virtual-servers) IBM-managed, multi-tenancy virtual server deployments with guaranteed capacity for a contract term 
 [Dedicated virtual server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-dedicated-virtual-servers) IBM-managed, single-tenancy virtual server deployments 







 Provisioning a virtual server 

After you decide upon a deployment option, begin the provisioning process. For more information, refer to the following topics.

Because you started the provisioning process with a third-party image, you cannot change the image type during the provisioning process.



Table 2. Provisioning information

 Provisioning instructions Description 

 [Provisioning public instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-ordering-vs-publicordering-vs-public) Provision public instances with various options 
 [Provisioning transient instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-ordering-vs-transientordering-vs-transient) Provision transient instances with various options 
 [Provisioning reserved capacity and instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-provisioning-reserved-capacity-and-instancesprovisioning-reserved-capacity-and-instances) Provision reserved capacity and instances with various options 
 [Provisioning dedicated hosts and instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-provisioning-dedicated-instances) Provision private instances or dedicated instances on dedicated hosts. 







 Next steps 

After your virtual server is provisioned and available to use, you can configure your virtual servers by using the IBM Cloud console or SoftLayer API. For more information, see [Configuring virtual servers](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-configuring-virtual-serversconfiguring-virtual-servers).
Fast Path of IBM Cloud Intel Bare Metal Servers on VPC Infrastructure 

This page is a collection of shortcuts to the documentation sections for each offering, excluding general information that applies to all offerings, such as SAP Sizing.

Use the links in this section to quickly access relevant documents that you are already familiar with.



 Learn 

An Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment consists primarily of compute, storage, and network components from a specified region (such as the US) and a designated site location (also referred to as zone, which is a data center site). For more information:



* [IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure environment introduction](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sap?topic=sap-vpc-env-introduction)



Certified Infrastructure-as-a-Service for SAP is available in many variations, each with different capabilities and sizes to fit many different SAP workload scenarios. For more information:



* [Infrastructure certified for SAP - Intel Bare Metal servers on VPC Infrastructure](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sap?topic=sap-iaas-offeringsiaas-intel-bm-vpc)



The following is an overview of the SAP-certified profiles with IBM Intel Virtual Servers for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver. For more information:



* [IBM Cloud Intel Bare Metal Server certified profiles for SAP HANA](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sap?topic=sap-hana-iaas-offerings-profiles-intel-bm-vpc)
* [IBM Cloud Intel Bare Metal Server certified profiles for SAP NetWeaver](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sap?topic=sap-nw-iaas-offerings-profiles-intel-bm-vpc)
* [Compute Profiles of SAP-certified IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/sap?topic=sap-compute-os-design-considerationscompute-baremetal)



Therefore, your business and functional requirements determine the SAP solutions powered by the SAP HANA Database Server or SAP NetWeaver Application Server, and how your applications are run in the available infrastructure. For more information:
Tags env:prod,env:test

For more information about available command options, see [ibmcloud is snapshots](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpc-referencesnapshots).





 Viewing all fast restore snapshot clones from the CLI 

You can list all available fast restore clones of a snapshot by issuing the ibmcloud is snapshot-cls command. The following example lists the available fast restore snapshot clones of the snapshot that has the ID of r138-4463eb2c-4913-43b1-b9bf-62a94f74c146.

cloudshell:$ ibmcloud is snapshot-cls r138-4463eb2c-4913-43b1-b9bf-62a94f74c146
Listing zonal clones of snapshot r138-4463eb2c-4913-43b1-b9bf-62a94f74c146 under account Test Account as user test.user@ibm.com...
Zone Available Created
eu-de-1 true 2023-02-17T20:15:46+00:00
eu-de-3 true 2023-02-17T20:29:21+00:00

For more information about available command options, see [ibmcloud is snapshot-cls](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpc-referencesnapshots-cli).





 Viewing details of a fast restore snapshot clone from the CLI 

You can run the ibmcloud is snapshot-cl command to list the details of a specific fast restore snapshot clone. The following example shows how to list the details of the fast restore snapshot clone of snapshot r138-4463eb2c-4913-43b1-b9bf-62a94f74c146 that resides in the eu-de-3 zone.
[Deploying server pools and origins in a single MZR](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/ha-infrastructure?topic=ha-infrastructure-ha-pools-origins)Deploying server pools and origins in a single MZR

Use this tutorial to deploy availability pools in a VPC for a single MZR. Creating server pools with origins provides your DevOps team with a staging environment so they can validate near-production ready code in parallel with an existing production environment.

Virtual Servers for Classic Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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IBM Cloud Load Balancer,Cloud Internet Services (CIS),High availability and resiliency for infrastructure



* 2021-06-10



[Apply end to end security to a cloud application](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-cloud-e2e-security)Apply end to end security to a cloud application

This tutorial walks you through key security services available in the IBM Cloud® catalog and how to use them together. An application that provides file sharing will put security concepts into practice.

Kubernetes service Object Storage

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Activity Tracker hosted event search,Container Registry,Secrets Manager,App ID,Cloudant,Key Protect,Log Analysis,Cloud Internet Services (CIS)



* 2 hours
* 2023-05-05



[Resilient and secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters with IBM Cloud Internet Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-multi-region-k8s-cis)Resilient and secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters with IBM Cloud Internet Services

This tutorial highlights how Cloud Internet Services (CIS), a uniform platform to configure and manage the Domain Name System (DNS), Global Load Balancing (GLB), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) for internet applications, can be integrated with Kubernetes clusters to support this scenario and to deliver a secure and resilient solution across multiple locations.

Kubernetes service Container Registry

+1

Cloud Internet Services (CIS)



* 2 hours
Data center location 

Select the IBM Cloud® data center settings. For more information, see [Region and data center locations for resource deployment](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-locations).



  Geography 

Select the region where the clusters are to be hosted.





  Data center 

Select the IBM Cloud data center where the clusters are hosted.





  Pod 

Select the IBM Cloud data center pod where you want to deploy your resources. Keep the default pod selection if you do not have reasons to prefer a different pod.





  Related links 



*  [Primary cluster](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vrw-orderinginstance-consldt-cluster)
*  [Procedure to order VMware Regulated Workloads](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vrw-orderinginstance-procedure)
*  [VMware Regulated Workloads reference architecture overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vrw-archi-overview)
Profiles 

When you provision IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers, you can select from supported families of profiles. A profile is a combination of vCPU and RAM that can be instantiated quickly to start a virtual server instance. In the IBM Cloud console, you can choose from popular profile configurations or select from a list of profiles that best fit your needs.



 Profile families 

The following virtual server instance families are available.

Depending on your instance type, some families might not be available.



Table 1. Public virtual server family selections

 Families Description 

 [Balanced](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-virtual-server-profilesbalanced) Best for common workloads that require a balance of performance and scalability. Uses network-attached storage. 
 [Balanced local storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-virtual-server-profilesbalanced-local-storage) Best for large database workloads that require high I/O performance with low latency. 
 [Variable compute](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-virtual-server-profilesvariable-compute) Best for workloads that don’t require steady, high-CPU performance. 
 [Compute](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-virtual-server-profilescompute) Best for moderate to high web traffic workloads. 
 [Memory](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-virtual-server-profilesmemory) Best for memory caching and real-time analytics workloads. 
 [GPU](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-about-virtual-server-profilesgpu) Best for high-performance workloads. 



Some of these families are also available for IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud.
For more information about creating SSH keys, see [SSH keys](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ssh-keys).





 Choose an operating system 

Choose a Linux operating system for your deployments. We recommend that you use the same OS release for all the hosts in the environment. When you use the same operating system version and release, it simplifies the operations management of the whole landscape. You might choose between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server.





 Private networks 

The following table lists the private networks that are created by the deployment automation with corresponding default values.

The defaults must be changed if you specify more than one deployment landscape connected with each other. All IP address ranges in the subnets must be unique.



Table 1. Private networks IP address ranges

 Service Private network IP address ranges 

 Management VPC VPC management network for virtual server instances 172.10.1.0/24 
 Workload VPC VPC workload network for virtual server instances 172.11.2.0/24 
 Edge VPC VPC edge network for virtual server instances 172.11.1.0/24 
 Power VS workspace Power VS management network <br>PowerVS backup network<br><br>Separate network for each SAP system on Power VS 10.10.10.0/24 <br>10.10.11.0/24 <br>10.10.20.0/24 







 Learn about deployment input parameters 

Ensure that you are familiar with the required input for the deployment execution.



* [description for input parameters - create new architecture](https://github.com/terraform-ibm-modules/terraform-ibm-powervs-infrastructure/blob/main/examples/ibm-catalog/deployable-architectures/full-stack/README.md)
* [description for input parameters - extend existing architecture](https://github.com/terraform-ibm-modules/terraform-ibm-powervs-infrastructure/blob/main/examples/ibm-catalog/deployable-architectures/extension/README.md)







 Additional background information
We’re also doing some work in Satellite to help you with inventory and change management. So, part of the power of Satellite is this common control plane or single pane of glass that allows you to manage your applications across a diverse set of environments. Now, how does this work? Kind of the key idea within Satellite that we’re introducing is the notion of a location. A location is a way to define, to IBM Cloud, a place outside of IBM Cloud where you want to be able to deploy and consume cloud services. It is a collection of infrastructure that you own that we’re going to use on your behalf to run cloud services. That location is essentially a collection of Linux hosts, of virtual machines or physical machines, that get arranged together into a pool of resources, that get managed automatically by Satellite, and that get used, by us, to provision services. So, when you, let’s say, you want to create a Satellite location in your data center, you can provision a set of Linux machines within that data center. You register those Linux machines with IBM Cloud as a location, and once that collection is registered with IBM Cloud Satellite, you now see that location kind of like a custom region within your cloud account where you can now deploy cloud services. So, if you want to create a Postgres database, define a DevOps tool chain, or create an OpenShift cluster - when you provision that cluster through services in the cloud, that custom location you just defined in your data center will be a location that you can select when you provision that resource. And so, locations is a really simple concept where you’re able to take any Linux infrastructure and make it available as a place to run cloud services. Now, one of the advantages of this idea of a location is it really provides a tremendous flexibility. IBM Cloud Satellite is built on top of Kubernetes and OpenShift as the common infrastructure abstraction that we use to allow you to consume cloud services in any infrastructure. And by using OpenShift as that abstraction layer, we can support a variety of infrastructures underneath a Satellite location. You can bring your own custom infrastructure in your data center, physical or virtual servers.
This tutorial highlights how Cloud Internet Services (CIS), a uniform platform to configure and manage the Domain Name System (DNS), Global Load Balancing (GLB), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) for internet applications, can be integrated with Kubernetes clusters to support this scenario and to deliver a secure and resilient solution across multiple locations.

Kubernetes service Container Registry

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Cloud Internet Services (CIS)



* 2 hours
* 2023-05-10



[Deploy isolated workloads across multiple locations and zones](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-vpc-multi-region)Deploy isolated workloads across multiple locations and zones

This tutorial walks you through steps for setting up highly available and isolated workloads by provisioning IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). You will create virtual server instances (VSIs) in multiple zones within one region to ensure the high availability of the application. You will create additional VSIs in a second region and configure a global load balancer (GLB) to provide high availability between regions and reduce network latency for users in different geographies.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloud Internet Services (CIS)

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Secrets Manager



* 2 hours
* 2023-05-05



[Centralize communication through a VPC Transit Hub and Spoke architecture - Part one](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-vpc-transit1)Centralize communication through a VPC Transit Hub and Spoke architecture - Part one

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides network isolation and security in the IBM Cloud. A VPC can be a building block that encapsulates a corporate division (marketing, development, accounting, ...) or a collection of microservices owned by a DevSecOps team. VPCs can be connected to an on-premises enterprise and each other. This may create the need to route traffic through centralized firewall-gateway appliances.
Overview of VPC landing zone deployable architectures 

The VPC landing zone

deployable architecturesare a preconfigured set of infrastructure as code (IaC) assets that are based on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services reference architecture.

Three deployable architectures are included: VPC landing zone, VSI on VPC landing zone, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on VPC landing zone. You can use the deployable architectures to create a secure and customizable

Virtual Private Cloud(VPC) environment.

The deployable architectures can help you meet the requirements and follow the best practices of IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services. For more information, see [Getting started with IBM Cloud for Financial Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services). For more information about deployable architectures, read about [infrastructure architectures](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-secure-enterprisedefine-architecture) in "Running secure enterprise workloads on IBM Cloud".



 VPC landing zone 

You can use the VPC landing zone to deploy a simple IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure without any compute resources, such as Virtual Server Instances (VSIs) or Red Hat OpenShift clusters. You can also use it as a base on which to deploy your own compute resources.

The VPC landing zone is also a modular solution. You can use this architecture as the base for your compute resources. In fact, the other landing zone deployable architectures use the VPC landing zone as the base for their resources.

This deployable architecture supports these features:



* Compliance: Aligns with the [VPC reference architecture for IBM Cloud for Financial Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/framework-financial-services?topic=framework-financial-services-vpc-architecture-about)
* VPCs: Creates a VPC-based topology based on two VPCs by default
* Subnets: Defines multiple subnets in the VPC to define IP ranges and organize resources within the network.
* Public gateways: Includes public gateways that provide connectivity between resources in a VPC and the public internet.
The migration can occur either over the public or private interface of the compute resource.

Zoom

![Topology](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/8aa0853d34cf2349f1d2db8e5c61e6422a580169/cloud-infrastructure/images/p-p_classic_private_ip_routing2.svg)

Figure 2. Network topology of RMM and bare metal migration

Similar architecture diagram is applicable for 'Bare metal to virtual server' and 'Virtual server to virtual server' use cases within classic infrastructure migration.

Review the following migration considerations and limitations:



* The RMM server is installed on a virtual server instance and is a GUI-based tool.
* The RMM server needs to be able to access both the source and target server over SSH.
* This is a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) solution.
* Only compute resources are migrated, along with secondary volume and secondary block volumes.
* The RMM tool keeps track of data changes on the source server until cutover and performs delta syncs to the target server.



For more a detailed step-by-step guide, see [IBM Cloud classic bare metal to classic bare metal migration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-infrastructure?topic=cloud-infrastructure-p-p-migration-bare-metal-overview).

For frequently asked questions and answers, see [FAQs for classic bare metal to classic bare metal migration](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-infrastructure?topic=cloud-infrastructure-bare-metal-faqs).





 Classic to VPC infrastructure migration 

You can use RMM solution to migrate your classic bare metal server to an IBM Cloud VPC virtual server instance or bare metal. Migrating from bare metal servers to virtual servers or bare metal allows you to modernize your environment and adopt virtualization.

Zoom

![Physical to virtual migration private IP diagram.]
Getting Started 

This tutorial is a short introduction to using an IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL deployment. [pgAdmin](https://www.pgadmin.org/) is an open source administration platform for PostgreSQL, and provides many tools for managing your data and databases. [Download and install](https://www.pgadmin.org/download/) the version that is appropriate to your environment, and then follow the steps to connect it to your Databases for PostgreSQL deployment.



 IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL 

IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL is a serverless, cloud database service that is fully integrated into the IBM Cloud environment. You can access and use a cloud database system without purchasing and setting up your own hardware, installing your own database software, or managing the database yourself.

Databases for PostgreSQL requires no software, infrastructure, network, or OS administration. IBM continuously provides fully automated and automatic updates to the service, such as security and minor version upgrades. A database instance is deployed by default as highly available across multiple data centers in an IBM Cloud Multi-Zone region with synchronous replication. Customers connect to a single database endpoint and IBM automatically manages the failover between Availability Zones. IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL can horizontally scale the PostgreSQL instance with read replicas in region or cross-regionally. Databases for PostgreSQL Read replicas can be easily transformed into fully functioning Databases for PostgreSQL instances, an especially useful feature for online cross-regional disaster recovery strategies.

Additionally, Databases for PostgreSQL provides independent scaling of disk, RAM, and vCPU, as well as auto-scaling capabilities and hourly billing. These features help provide greatly increase granularity on right-sizing database use for application workload.

Databases for PostgreSQL is a multi-tenant offering by design and customers have multiple levers for increased isolation that is detailed in our [Security and Compliance section](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-databases?topic=cloud-databases-manage-security-compliance).