vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
ux2d-36x1008 36 1,008 38,803 OLTP (*) 
 ux2d-48x1344 48 1,344 51,737 OLTP (*) 
 ux2d-72x2016 72 2,016 77,606 OLTP (*) 
 ux2d-100x2800 100 2,800 107,785 OLTP (*) 
 ux2d-200x5600 200 5,600 215,570 OLTP (*) 



(*): RHEL 7.6 for SAP Solutions, RHEL 7.9 for SAP Solutions, RHEL 8.1 for SAP Solutions, RHEL 8.2 for SAP Solutions, RHEL 8.4 for SAP Solutions, RHEL 8.6 for SAP Solutions
SLES 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP5, SLES 15, SLES 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP4

(**): SLES 12 SP4, SLES 15, SLES 15 SP1, SLES 15 SP2, SLES 15 SP3

Regard the supported operated systems that are mentioned in the footnotes.

For more information, see [SAP Note 2927211 - SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Infrastructure environment](https://launchpad.support.sap.com//notes/2927211).

For SAP HANA deployments that use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC, only single-node deployments are supported. Multi-node / scale-out is not currently supported.





 Understanding Virtual Server profile names 

With IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers for Virtual Private Cloud, the profile families that are certified for SAP are: Balanced, Memory Optimized, Very High and Ultra High Memory.



* Balanced family profiles, provide a good mix of performance and scalability for more common workloads.
* All the Memory family profiles provide for memory intensive workloads, such as intensive database applications and in-memory analytics workloads, and are especially designed for SAP HANA workloads.



For more information, see [Intel Virtual Server for VPC Infrastructure documentation](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-profiles).
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions automation retains a set of user IDs and passwords encrypted within the IBM Cloud management plane. Automation user IDs are separate from the user IDs displayed in the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console and which are reserved for your use.

Change these passwords and use your own password information management (PIM) system to store and manage these passwords. You cannot change or disable the passwords that are used by automation without disrupting the automation. For more information, see [IBM user IDs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-audit_user_ids).





 Related links 



* [Physical infrastructure design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_physicalinfrastructure)
* [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)
* The kit of the backup agent for IBM COS aws-s3-backint-.*-linuxx86_64.tar.gz should be manually uploaded on the bastion server. This kit is part of SAP HANA kit file and can be found in */DATA_UNITS/HDB_SERVER_LINUX_X86_64/server path. Either the entire SAP HANA kit or only the kit of the backup agent for IBM COS can be provided, but the minimum backint agent kit version to be used is aws-s3-backint-1.2.17-linuxx86_64
* The Python script create_hdbbackint.py provided by SAP (SAP note 2935898 - Install and Configure SAP HANA Backint Agent for Amazon S3) to modify the "hdbbackint" script so that it points to the Python 3 libraries should be manually uploaded on the bastion server.



You need to have already deployed an SAP HANA system (built on one of the following OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 4 for SAP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP 3 for SAP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 for SAP or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 for SAP) in an IBM Cloud Gen2 VPC, on a single host (with or without HA) with the same type and version running on a compatible DB version.

This HANA backup solution was implemented and tested on the following OS images available in IBM Cloud: ibm-sles-15-4-amd64-sap-hana-3, ibm-sles-15-3-amd64-sap-hana-3, ibm-redhat-8-6-amd64-sap-hana-2, ibm-redhat-8-4-amd64-sap-hana-2.

Ansible installs the kits for you. You specify the location of the Kits in the configuration files.

To save costs the Bastion server, with its SAP media dedicated storage, can be decommissioned after the SAP solutions are successfully implemented on IBM Cloud VPC cloud. Or, you can keep the Bastion server and use it as a jump host for that specific region.

This automation is offered free of charge however, the provisioned infrastructure comes at cost.
* [SAP Fundamental Library Styles component library](https://sap.github.io/fundamental-styles) for UI Frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, and other frameworks)
* [SAPUI5 Framework](https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com) (and upstream project [OpenUI5](https://openui5.org))







 SAP's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings 

IBM Cloud is also available as an option underneath SAP's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products.

IBM Cloud offerings for SAP's SaaS by request only:



* SAP S/4HANA Cloud SaaS, Extended Edition; using IBM Cloud SAP-certified IaaS (IBM Cloud is a strategic premier partner, requires PMC contract with a services partner)







 SAP Partner ecosystem solutions offerings 

IBM Cloud provides numerous solutions from SAP's Partner ecosystem. These solutions can reduce SAP implementation project timelines or increase the efficiency of SAP Systems that are running maintenance on IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud works closely with these SAP Partners (who are also IBM Business Partners) to offer their capabilities from the IBM Cloud catalog.

These solutions from SAP Patners may not apply to all SAP software or all Infrastructure within the IBM Cloud® for SAP portfolio; please see the individual sections under the SAP Partner certified solutions topic group.

This table summarises the available SAP Partner solutions:



Table 1. Overview of SAP Partner solutions

 SAP Partner Solution name Solution description 

 Actifio [Actifio Go for SAP HANA](https://www.actifio.com/solutions/application/sap) Block-based backups for SAP HANA 
 Veeam [Veeam Backup & Replication for SAP HANA](https://www.veeam.com/backup-sap-hana-plugin.html) Backint backups from SAP HANA 
 F5 [F5 BigIP for SAP NetWeaver](https://www.f5.com/partners/technology-alliances/sap) Load balancing and traffic management for SAP 







 Comparing the different SAP-certified IaaS offerings
You can check how much you've spent at any time on the [IBM Cloud Billing and usage page](https://cloud.ibm.com/billing).

You can set up spending notifications to get notified when your account or a particular service reaches a specific spending threshold that you set. For information, see the [IBM Cloud account Type description](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accounts). IBM Cloud® spending notifications trigger only after cost surpasses the specified limit.





 Are there countries from which the Qiskit Runtime service is not available? 

Qiskit Runtime (beta) is unavailable from the following countries (as of April 2022): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong S.A.R. of the PRC), Cuba, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Macao S.A.R. of the PRC, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.





 Currently, two quantum systems are accessible through Qiskit Runtime. Will there be more systems and systems with more qubits available in the future? 

Yes. We expect to make more systems available through Qiskit Runtime, including larger systems when available. The price might vary as larger and more capable systems come online.





 How are jobs prioritized, as the available quantum systems are shared among all users in the Qiskit Runtime service? 

Jobs are prioritized through a first in first out method.





 Can I choose a specific system from those offered by Qiskit Runtime? 

Yes. Qiskit Runtime allows you to specify the system on which your Qiskit program should be run. But it is not necessary to do so. The service uses the least busy system if none is specified.





 Is there support provided for Qiskit Runtime and what is the Service Level Objective? 

Currently, the Qiskit Runtime cloud service is in beta status. Therefore, IBM provides best effort support for the service.
For general information about the security architecture, review [Securing AI apps: Watson on IBM Cloud security](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architectures/securityArchitecture/watson-security).





 What Watson solutions are available to respond to Covid-19 questions? 

[IBM Watson Assistant for Citizens](https://www.ibm.com/watson/covid-response) on the IBM public cloud brings together Watson Assistant, Natural Language Processing capabilities from IBM Research, and state-of-art enterprise AI search capabilities with Watson Discovery, to understand and respond to common questions about COVID-19. For information on what’s available with Watson Discovery, review [Using the COVID-19 kit](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-covidkit).





 Can I migrate documents from one Discovery instance to another? 

You cannot migrate original documents from one instance to another. Instead, ingest the documents to the newly created instance.





 How do I delete documents from my Discovery collection? 

Use the [Delete method](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/discoverydelete-a-document) in the Discovery API to delete documents. There is no delete option within the user interface.
Troubleshooting 

Review the following information to troubleshoot your VMware vCenter Server® instance issues. Your system administrators must identify the symptoms of the issue, determine which of the solution components are affected, research, and propose a fix or workaround, and test the fix.



* Identifying Symptoms. A number of potential causes might lead to the under-performance or non-performance of your instance. The first step in efficient troubleshooting is to identify exactly what is going wrong. These symptoms might be reported from VMware vSphere® events and alarms, Operations Management in IBM Cloud®, or reported from your Service Desk from one of your users.
* Isolating the affected components. After you identify the symptoms of the issue, you must identify the software or hardware components that are affected. Identify whether they might be causing the issue and those components that are not involved. Tools such as vCenter Operations Management in IBM Cloud assist with this step.
* Proposing a fix or workaround. After you understand the symptoms and isolate the components, you can research possible fixes and workarounds. Your system administrators also use the IBM Cloud portal, including the troubleshooting scenarios in this document, IBM ServiceNow, and VMware Knowledgebase. In addition, you can find many wikis and blogs that might help. For even quicker resolutions, Operations Management in IBM Cloud includes a number of remediations for identified issues.
* Testing Possible Solutions. When you know the symptoms, involved components, and have a fix or workaround, your system administrators systematically test the solutions until the issue is resolved.



vSphere includes a user-configurable events and alarms subsystem, which tracks events that occur throughout the vSphere environment and stores the data in log files and the vCenter database. This subsystem also enables system administrators to specify the conditions under which alarms are triggered. Alarms change state from warnings to more serious alerts as system conditions change, and can trigger automated alarm actions such as to email the system administrator team. This function is useful when you want to be informed, or take immediate action, when certain events or conditions occur for a specific inventory object, or group of objects.
If you have an existing instance with vSphere Enterprise Plus 6.7u2, you can add new ESXi servers with either vSphere Enterprise Plus 6.7u2 or vSphere Enterprise Plus 6.7u3.

VMware Solutions Dedicated - vSphere ESXi 6.7u2 for vSAN storage
: For vSAN storage, even though vSphere 6.7u3 is selected on the user interface, vSphere ESXi 6.7u2 is installed. This distinction applies to the following scenarios.



* Newly deployed vCenter Server instances
* New clusters that are added to new and existing vCenter Server instances
* New ESXi servers that are added to new and existing vCenter Server instances



For NFS storage, vSphere ESXi 6.7u3 is installed.

VMware Solutions Dedicated - VMware NSX updates
: For vCenter Server with NSX-T, new instances are now deployed with NSX-T 3.0.1. Day 2 operations continue to be supported for NSX-T 2.5.1 instances.

For vCenter Server with NSX-V, new instances are now deployed with NSX-V 6.4.6.

IBM Cloud for VMware Mission Critical Workloads
: All newly deployed IBM Cloud for VMware Mission Critical Workloads instances are provisioned with NSX-T.

Add-on services
: The 3.8 release provides the following service versions on newly deployed instances:



* BIG-IP VE v15.1.0.4
* HyTrust CloudControl v6.1.1 for vCenter Server with NSX-T
* Juniper vSRX and Juniper vSRX Gateway Appliance v19.4R2.6
* Red Hat OpenShift for VMware v4.4.13



Promotions for VMware Solutions add-on services
: IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions offers promotions for some VMware services. Promotional pricing offers a number of months free of charge for a service’s licenses, if the service has license charges.

You can use one promotion (promo) code for one or more of the following services.



* Ordering a new VMware vCenter Server
The main reason for selecting this model is to keep accounts and resources separate between the two forests or domains. In this model, the customer provisions a minimum of two domain controllers as VMs hosted in each vCenter Server instance. These VMs would be connected to an overlay network and the new domain controllers would have the primary domain controller role. All user credentials, service accounts, and computer objects are on in this IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions workload domain that is hosted on these domain controllers. No AD network connectivity requirement between on-premises and IBM Cloud as nothing is shared between the two AD forests. The IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions infrastructure domain is used for the user credentials and service accounts of your system administrators and the resource objects for the underlay-connected infrastructure components only. The following diagram shows the Active Directory Domain Services topology for this stand-alone AD forest model.

Zoom

![New stand-alone AD forest-domain diagram](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs-content/v1/content/5bdb37c0149145723c5437e8176651928565e722/vmwaresolutions/images/adds-standalone.svg)

Figure 1. New stand-alone AD forest-domain diagram





 New AD forest with trusts to existing forest model 

This model deploys a new forest domain in IBM Cloud with a trust to an existing forest on-premises. If you're planning to use user accounts from your on-premises AD forest to resources that are running as VMs hosted on your vCenter Server instance in the VMware Solutions workload forest-domain, you must establish at least a one-way trust to your AD forest-domain running in IBM Cloud. In this deployment model, your IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions workload forest-domain becomes the resource domain where resource objects are located, and on-premises domain becomes the user account domain. You must have AD connectivity between on-premises and IBM Cloud. Typically, a two-way trust is not commonly deployed in this model as an alternative deployment pattern is used to extend Active Directory.
General FAQ about VMware Shared 

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the VMware Shared offering.



 What is VMware Shared? 

VMware Shared is a multitenant VMware® infrastructure solution based on a robust VMware® product called VMware Cloud Director. You can use this solution to rapidly create, migrate, and use your virtual machines (VMs) in the Cloud.





 What are my options to use resources with VMware Shared? 

You are provided with the following two consumption models:



* On-demand. With this consumption model, you pay only for the compute resources that you use, in an hourly pricing model.
* Reserved. With this consumption model, you can reserve compute resources in advance to ensure that your capacity is available when you need it. Billing for Reserved is available monthly, yearly, or on a multi-year basis. Other resources, such as storage and egress, are billed per usage, regardless of the consumption model.







 Why do I want to subscribe to VMware Shared? 

With VMware Shared, you can extend your VMs to the Cloud with ultimate capacity flexibility and scalability. Whether you are looking to begin your cloud journey with a Development or Test environment, a disaster recovery site, or a full enterprise-grade hybrid cloud transformation, VMware Shared provides a cost-effective and self-service way to start moving your VMs to the cloud within minutes.

With IBM managing the infrastructure up to the hypervisor, you do not need to worry about managing patches, upgrades, and monitoring, which gives you more time and resources to focus on innovation. In addition, with a native like VMware experience, you can use your existing VMware resources and skill sets.





 What user accounts do I need for VMware Shared? 



* IBMid account. This account is required to access the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console. The console is a stand-alone user interface that is separate from the IBM Cloud infrastructure customer portal. For more information, see [Getting started](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-getting-started).
* IBM Cloud account.
* Entrust CloudControl v6.5 (formerly known as HyTrust® CloudControl)
* FortiGate Virtual Appliance v7.0.5
* Red Hat OpenShift v4.10
* Zerto v9.0u4



Entrust DataControl - deprecated
: New installations of Entrust DataControl® are no longer supported for new or existing deployments of vCenter Server instances. You can still use or delete existing Entrust DataControl installations on your existing instances.

New and updated documentation
: The following documentation updates are available.



* Upgrading VMware vSphere software from vSphere 6.5 or 6.7 to 7.0 with the supported upgrade paths.
* Managing IAM access for VMware Solutions.



REST API updates
: New REST APIs are available.



* (Updated on 31 October 2022) For VMware Shared, a new [V2 API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/vmware-solutions-shared/vmware-solutions-shared-v2.0.0) is introduced, which includes the new site object. The [V1 API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/vmware-solutions-shared/vmware-solutions-shared-v1.0.0) is being deprecated and will be supported until 31 December 2022. To ensure smooth transition in the future, start using the V2 APIs.
* For the [VMware Solutions API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/vmware-solutions), support is provided for VMware vSphere cluster new deployments and for the KMIP for VMware stand-alone service.



User interface updates and enhancements
: Various error messages and tooltip enhancements are available to assist you in selecting the appropriate setting on the user interface.



* You can now view site and virtual data center details from the Resources page for VMware Shared.
* The following enhancements are made to the ordering page for IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions offerings.
Forwarders are DNS servers that the AD DNS server can use to resolve DNS queries for records that the AD server cannot resolve. 10.0.80.12 and 10.0.80.11 are the two addresses for IBM Cloud Resolving Name Servers. Resolving name servers are located on the private network and act as DNS resolvers. The private resolvers query the Internet root name servers for domain lookups and resolve this information over the private network to keep your bandwidth usage down, reduce the load on the authoritative servers, and offer quick resolution. Private network resolvers are a convenience service for our customers.

All deployed appliances (vCenter Server Appliance, NSX Manager and Controllers, and vSphere ESXi hosts) have their DNS settings configured to point to the AD DNS server as their default DNS. You can customize the DNS zone configuration if it does not interfere with the configuration of the deployed components.





 Related links 



* [Overview of VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-solution_overview)
* [Getting started with VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-getting-started)
SAP BW/4HANA 

SAP BW/4HANA is the leading enterprise data warehouse (EDW) software, which is designed for analyzing mass amounts of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources. EDW software deciphers business data into tangible and actionable insights that are used for reporting business performance against metrics and identifying opportunities or gaps in existing business practices.

SAP BW/4HANA is a major release of EDW software from SAP designed to use the analytical capabilities of the SAP HANA database exclusively. Previous major releases of EDW from SAP were known as SAP BW, which might use various relational database vendors. SAP BW/4HANA acts as the insights engine for large enterprises with upgraded UX, data integration, and technologies upgrades to enable real-time decision making and digital business processes.

For more information, see [SAP BW/4HANA](https://www.sap.com/products/bw4hana-data-warehousing.html).

IBM Cloud® for SAP infrastructure options are certified to SAP NetWeaver application server and SAP HANA database server, which run the SAP BW/4HANA business application.



 Preface: variants of SAP BW/4HANA and other analytics solutions from SAP 

For analytics, there are multiple interlocking solutions from SAP and variants for each solution. The primary SAP analytics solutions are:



* SAP BW/4HANA, the EDW software using SAP HANA Platform with runtime database license
* SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (SaaS), the EDW software available as-a-Service using SAP HANA Cloud Services
* SAP HANA Platform Enterprise Edition, the database server and analytical components when leveraging the full-use license and can be used to construct custom/native EDW.



* The analytical SAP HANA components include Self Service Analytics Library (SAL), Smart Data Access (SDA), Smart Data Integration (SDI), Smart Data Streaming (SDS), Remote Data Sync (RDS), and in addition, for Hadoop integration, the use of SAP HANA Spark Controller optionally with SAP Vora.





There are additional SAP analytics solutions, each with different software deployment options, some of which are summarised below:



* SAP BW/4HANA



* Deployment to existing traditional on-premises data center
This document assumes that you have one primary vCenter Server instance that is deployed, or a number of separate primary vCenter Server instances. If you have primary and secondary vCenter Server instances that are deployed and that use Single Sign On (SSO), see [SSO-linked vCenters](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vum-updating-vcsa).

If you deployed a vCenter Server instance by using vSAN, see [Updating vSAN clusters](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vum-updating-vsan) first.

If you want to update the IBM Cloud infrastructure management automation, use the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console.

On the [IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions console](https://cloud.ibm.com/vmware), you can complete the following actions:



* Upgrade licenses for example, upgrade NSX Base to another version.
* Initiate updates to the vCenter Server platform.
* View the status of updates.
* View the installed updates.



This facility enables the automated updating for the management components of the vCenter Server instances only. VMware product updates must be applied by using the procedures that are detailed in this document.



 Related links 



* [VMware HCX solution architecture](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-hcx-archi-introhcx-archi-intro)
* [IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Demos](https://www.ibm.com/demos/collection/IBM-Cloud-for-VMware-Solutions/) (demonstrations)