IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud

Book Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Why use IBM Power Systems?
  • 1.2. Underlying infrastructure environment
  • 1.3. Available Cloud Regions and Zones
  • 1.4. Network options
  • 1.5. Storage options
  • 1.6. Compute options
  • 1.7. Available software
• 2. Backup and migration strategies for IBM Power VS
  • 2.1. Backup strategies
  • 2.2. Migration strategies
  • 2.3. Planning workload migrations to POWER8 and POWER9
• 3. High Availability and Disaster Recovery options for IBM Power VS

Hands-On Labs

• LAB 1: Provisioning and managing Power Virtual Servers
• LAB 2: Capturing and exporting AIX and IBM i VM images
• LAB 3: Deploying custom images within a Power Systems Virtual Server
• LAB 4: Snapshotting, cloning and restoring Power Virtual Servers
• LAB 5: Direct Link Connect for Power Systems Virtual Servers

References

• IBM Cloud Power Virtual Servers documentation
• IBM Cloud Power Virtual Servers offering web page