Front cover A Practical Approach to Cloud IaaS with IBM SoftLayer Presentations Guide Daniel Aguado Thomas Andersen Aram Avetisyan Jeff Budnik Mihai Criveti Adrian Doroiman Andrew Hoppe Gerardo Menegaz Alejandro Morales Adrian Moti Marie Joy Salazar Sebastian Szumczyk In partnership with IBM MEA University Program Redbooks International Technical Support Organization A Practical Approach to Cloud IaaS with IBM SoftLayer: Presentations Guide February 2016 SG24-8350-00 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page xi. First Edition (February 2016) This edition applies to IBM SoftLayer cloud infrastructure at the time this guide was developed in July 2015. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2016. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . xi Trademarks . xii IBM Redbooks promotions . xiii Preface . .xv Authors. .xv Now you can become a published author, too! . xvii Comments welcome. xviii Stay connected to IBM Redbooks . xviii Unit 1. Understanding the IaaS approach . 1 1.1 What you should be able to do . 2 1.2 References . 2 1.3 Teaching topics . 2 1.4 What is Cloud Computing? . 3 1.5 Definition of Cloud Computing . 4 1.6 Essential characteristics . 5 1.7 Deployment models . 6 1.8 Service models . 7 1.9 Cloud service models in practice . 8 1.10 Cloud service models – Technology mapping . 10 1.11 Cloud adoption and migration is workload driven . 11 1.12 Infrastructure as a Service . 13 1.13 Example IaaS use case: Website publishing scenario . 14 1.14 Platform as a Service . 15 1.15 Software as a Service . 16 1.16 Implications of Cloud Computing . 17 1.17 Business benefits of Cloud Computing . 18 1.18 Development benefits of Cloud Computing. 19 1.19 Industry impact . 20 1.20 IaaS: Common storage models. 21 1.21 Overview of storage options . 22 1.22 IaaS: SoftLayer public cloud . 24 1.23 IaaS products and services overview (SoftLayer). 25 1.24 Key takeaways: Cloud Computing . 26 Unit 2. Platform architecture for cloud computing. 27 2.1 What you should be able to do . 28 2.2 Teaching topics . 28 2.3 Typical IaaS offerings . 29 2.4 What an IaaS provider could offer. 30 2.5 Location location location . 31 2.6 SoftLayer presence . 32 2.7 The datacenter . 33 2.8 Network architecture . 34 2.9 Triple network architecture . 35 2.10 The Orchestration Management System . 36 2.11 Sample IaaS datacenter . 37 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2016. All rights reserved. iii 2.12 Checkpoint . 38 2.13 Checkpoint (2). 39 2.14 Management web interface. 40 2.15 Management web interface capabilities . 41 2.16 Monitor/control/change instances from the web interface. 42 2.17 Monitor/control/change instances . 43 2.18 Account administration . 44 2.19 Adding users to your account . 45 2.20 Defining permissions for users . 46 2.21 Default permission templates . 48 2.22 Defining instance access . 49 2.23 Checkpoint . 50 2.24 Checkpoint (2). 51 Unit 3. Server offerings in cloud computing. 53 3.1 What you should be able to do . 54 3.2 References . 54 3.3 Teaching topics . 54 3.4 Compute Nodes in IaaS Cloud . 55 3.5 IaaS cloud server offerings (SoftLayer). 56 3.6 Virtual Servers - Public node. 57 3.7 Virtual Servers - Public node (2) . 58 3.8 Virtual Servers - Private node . 59 3.9 All virtual servers: . ..