IBM SmartCloud Essentials电子书

IBM® SmartCloud® Essentials

Table of Contents

IBM® SmartCloud® Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. IBM® SmartCloud®

A brief history of IBM

Beware of fake clouds!

The definition

Five essential characteristics

Four service models

Three deployment models

The value of cloud services

The IBM® SmartCloud® portfolio

IBM® SmartCloud® Foundation

IBM® SmartCloud® Services

IBM® SmartCloud® Solutions

Summary

2. IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise

Introduction

Understanding the basic concepts

Basic services

Virtual machine instances

Virtual local storage

Network access methods

Image catalog

Support and maintenance

Forum support

Maintenance windows

Premium services

Storage options

Block storage

Network options

Virtual private network

Virtual local area network

Reserved IP addresses

Additional support options

Premium support

Advanced premium support

Add-on operating system support

Estimating your cost

Preparing to get started

Creating an account

Ordering premium services

Navigating to the SCE management console

Summary

3. Getting Started

Popular uses

Resource relationships and attributes

Provisioning our first virtual machine instance

Creating a block storage volume

Creating an SSH key

Creating a virtual machine instance

Connecting to the instance

Configuring and consuming the instance

Creating a snapshot from the customized instance

Taking a snapshot of the instance

Customizing an image by adding extra parameters

Using rapid deployment services

Many more functions!

User's guide

Demonstration videos

IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise

IBM® SmartCloud® Application Services

Summary

4. Advanced Use-cases

Using REST (and other) APIs

User guides and references

Provisioning a virtual machine instance using the REST API

The <base_URL>

Using the REST API in a browser

User Agent Switcher

RESTClient

Creating a virtual machine instance using the API

Powerful API functionalities

Anti-collocation

Guest messaging

The deployment utility tool

Image management

Creating dynamic virtual images

IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool

CohesiveFT

Importing images

Default features

CohesiveFT

Transfering images between different accounts

Delivering images

Securing your resources

ISO 27001 certification

Network security

Network concepts and tools

Integrating your authentication policy using a proxy

Host security

Hypervisor security

Encrypting data in virtual machine instances

Backup and restore options

Backup using the storage capabilities

Monitoring instances

IBM Tivoli® Monitoring

Managing from a mobile device

High availability

Summary

5. There's an Ecosystem for That

IBM product images

Licensing and pricing options

IBM Business Partner solutions

Cloud ecosystem partner images

Ready for IBM SmartCloud Services solutions

Summary

6. Further Developments

IBM® SmartCloud® Application Services

Improving software delivery with DevOps

Valuable sources of information

IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise and Application Services

IBM Innovation Center events

Global Technology Outlook

IBM Academy of Technology

A glimpse into our crystal ball

Platform services

Open cloud standards

SoftLayer Technologies Inc.

Hybrid cloud

Summary

A. A Brief History

Index