IBM® SmartCloud® Essentials -- Table of Contents -- IBM® SmartCloud® Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. IBM® SmartCloud® -- A brief history of IBM -- Beware of fake clouds! -- The definition -- Five essential characteristics -- Four service models -- Three deployment models -- The value of cloud services -- The IBM® SmartCloud® portfolio -- IBM® SmartCloud® Foundation -- IBM® SmartCloud® Services -- IBM® SmartCloud® Solutions -- Summary -- 2. IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise -- Introduction -- Understanding the basic concepts -- Basic services -- Virtual machine instances -- Virtual local storage -- Network access methods -- Image catalog -- Support and maintenance -- Forum support -- Maintenance windows -- Premium services -- Storage options -- Block storage -- Network options -- Virtual private network -- Virtual local area network -- Reserved IP addresses -- Additional support options -- Premium support -- Advanced premium support -- Add-on operating system support -- Estimating your cost -- Preparing to get started -- Creating an account -- Ordering premium services -- Navigating to the SCE management console -- Summary -- 3. Getting Started -- Popular uses -- Resource relationships and attributes -- Provisioning our first virtual machine instance -- Creating a block storage volume -- Creating an SSH key -- Creating a virtual machine instance -- Connecting to the instance -- Configuring and consuming the instance -- Creating a snapshot from the customized instance.

Taking a snapshot of the instance -- Customizing an image by adding extra parameters -- Using rapid deployment services -- Many more functions! -- User's guide -- Demonstration videos -- IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise -- IBM® SmartCloud® Application Services -- Summary -- 4. Advanced Use-cases -- Using REST (and other) APIs -- User guides and references -- Provisioning a virtual machine instance using the REST API -- The -- Using the REST API in a browser -- User Agent Switcher -- RESTClient -- Creating a virtual machine instance using the API -- Powerful API functionalities -- Anti-collocation -- Guest messaging -- The deployment utility tool -- Image management -- Creating dynamic virtual images -- IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool -- CohesiveFT -- Importing images -- Default features -- CohesiveFT -- Transfering images between different accounts -- Delivering images -- Securing your resources -- ISO 27001 certification -- Network security -- Network concepts and tools -- Integrating your authentication policy using a proxy -- Host security -- Hypervisor security -- Encrypting data in virtual machine instances -- Backup and restore options -- Backup using the storage capabilities -- Monitoring instances -- IBM Tivoli® Monitoring -- Managing from a mobile device -- High availability -- Summary -- 5. There's an Ecosystem for That -- IBM product images -- Licensing and pricing options -- IBM Business Partner solutions -- Cloud ecosystem partner images -- Ready for IBM SmartCloud Services solutions -- Summary -- 6. Further Developments -- IBM® SmartCloud® Application Services -- Improving software delivery with DevOps -- Valuable sources of information -- IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise and Application Services -- IBM Innovation Center events -- Global Technology Outlook -- IBM Academy of Technology -- A glimpse into our crystal ball.

Platform services -- Open cloud standards -- SoftLayer Technologies Inc. -- Hybrid cloud -- Summary -- A. A Brief History -- Index.