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.