Additional Flashcards
Components of IBM Cloud Platform
Robust Console
IAM
Catalog
Account and Billing Management System
IBM cloud regions
Dallas, Washington, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney
Multi zone cluster
provides fault tolerance capability so that a single failure event affects only a single zone.
Hierarchy of Geographic Locations
Geography, Country, Metro, Data center
Federal zones
Ashburn, VA and Dallas, TX
cost estimator tool
AI services , infrastructure services , Kubernetes clusters
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.
Access policy
combination of a subject (which is a user or an access group), their role, and a target, resource, or resource group
Virtual Servers
offer a range of operating systems and configurable random-access memory (RAM) and processing power
Bare metal
provide horsepower for processing intensive and disk input/output (I/O) intensive workloads.
Images: VMware Citrix Cloud Linux No operating system
Power systems
Choose from various AIX and IBM images or bring your own
used to deliver flexible compute capacity for power system workloads
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
Block Storage Service
provides virtual servers and bare metal servers with SAN-like Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSi) storage
File Storage Service
provides virtual and bare metal servers with a network file system (NFS) based storage
Cloud Backup Service
is an enterprise level backup storage and disaster recovery solution.
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
