Additional Flashcards by Mona Mehrotra

Components of IBM Cloud Platform

Robust Console
IAM
Catalog
Account and Billing Management System

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IBM cloud regions

Dallas, Washington, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney

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Multi zone cluster

provides fault tolerance capability so that a single failure event affects only a single zone.

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Hierarchy of Geographic Locations

Geography, Country, Metro, Data center

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Federal zones

Ashburn, VA and Dallas, TX

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cost estimator tool

AI services , infrastructure services , Kubernetes clusters

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Resource groups

easily provide access to multiple resources at once.

The first resource group created is automatically named Default

Are specified at service creation time.

Cannot be changed. (a resource’s resource group cannot be changed)

Have no geographical restrictions.

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Access policy

combination of a subject (which is a user or an access group), their role, and a target, resource, or resource group

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Virtual Servers

offer a range of operating systems and configurable random-access memory (RAM) and processing power

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Bare metal

provide horsepower for processing intensive and disk input/output (I/O) intensive workloads.

Images:
VMware
Citrix
Cloud Linux
No operating system

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Power systems

Choose from various AIX and IBM images or bring your own

used to deliver flexible compute capacity for power system workloads

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Hyper Protect Servers

allow for the creation and running of virtual servers on IBM LinuxONE

can only be deployed to specific data centers in Dallas, Frankfurt, Sydney, and Washington

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Block Storage Service

provides virtual servers and bare metal servers with SAN-like Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSi) storage

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File Storage Service

provides virtual and bare metal servers with a network file system (NFS) based storage

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Cloud Backup Service

is an enterprise level backup storage and disaster recovery solution.

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Benefits of cloud backup service

Customize Backup
Management Portal
Plugin Availability
Data Encryption
Geo Redundancy

Object storage

Objects can be very small up to 10 TB.

All requests and responses to access data from IBM Cloud Object Storage using a RESTful API are using HTTPS protocol.

Leverage Aspera to upload data quickly

levels of resiliency: cross region, regional, and single data center.

Tiers: Smart, Standard, Vault, Cold Vault

Cloud Internet Services

provides reliable, secure options for internet-facing application by leveraging Cloudflare

Gateway Appliance

Enables creation of virtual routers, firewalls, and private networking devices.

Choice of a Juniper or AT&T-based appliance.

CDN

CDN is a highly distributed platform of servers used to help minimize delays. IBM Cloud’s CDN services is based off Akamai. Usage based pricing

Load balancer

A load balancer is used to distribute traffic among virtual servers. Customers can choose between an IBM Cloud load balancer or a Citrix NetscalerVPX load balancer.

VMware Solution Dedicated

Single tenant bare metal solution.
Options for vCenter Server or VMware vSphere.
Root level access to the hypervisor.

VMware Solution Shared

Multi tenant solution using shared infrastructure.
Provides a VMware environment based on vCloudDirector.
Perfect for temporary migration and bursts.

Veeam

Allows for easy backup and replication of virtual machines on VMware.

Zerto

Assists in creating and managing disaster recovery with VMware.

Big IP

Assists with networking and security related tools for VMware solutions.

Challenge for serverless

A challenge of going serverless in low-latency financial applications is that containers may need to cold start resulting in delays

Use cases for serverless

Serverless APIs Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workloads Internet of Things (IoT) Alarm driven

Database-as-a-Service

cloud computing service that allows users to access and use a cloud database system without purchasing and setting up their own hardware, installing their own database software, or managing the database themselves

IBM Cloud Relational Database

Db2 Db2 Hosted MySQL Postgre

IBM Cloud Document Database

MongoDB - document database; available as a managed service on IBM Cloud,HIPPA compliant. Cloudant - IBM’s Database-as-a-Service based on Apache’s CouchDB; provides a 99.99% service level agreement Elasticsearch - IBM Cloud’s enterprise-ready fully managed solution for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document indexing and full text search capabilities

IBM Cloud Key Value Databases

Redis - Open source in memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker etcd - Object relational database management system with an emphasis on extensibility and on standards compliance

Event Streams

Leverage availability zone support from IBM Kubernetes services to ensure application will continue to work if an entire zone is unavailable. Integrate with Watson Internet of Things (IoT) and IBM Cloud function to leverage event streams.

Watson Studio

A suite of tools and collaborative environment for data scientists, developers, and domain experts.

Watson ML

Run and deploy machine learning models anywhere across any cloud

Watson knowledge catalog

Discover, curate, categorize and share data assets and models with asset control.

Watson openscale

Measure and manage AI models in production to promote trust and confidence