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IBM SmartCloud Essentials

By : Edwin Schouten
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IBM SmartCloud Essentials

By: Edwin Schouten

Overview of this book

IBM, the oldest technology company in the world, has a wide variety of powerful cloud services to offer from its IBM SmartCloud portfolio. Being able to differentiate them, and knowing how to use them efficiently gives you a competitive advantage over others. Starting with the basics of cloud computing, this guide covers the wide range of cloud components, services, and solutions in the IBM SmartCloud portfolio. Following on from this, you'll be introduced to the public , Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud service - IBM SmartCloud Enterprise; before peeking into the future of IBM cloud services. Using this book, you will discover the advantage of both traditional enterprise computing and public cloud computing. You will explore IBM's portfolio of cloud computing solutions ranging from infrastructure services (IaaS), to business services (BPaaS), and private to public cloud. You will be taken through a number of in-depth use-cases, examples, and hand-on exercises that will help you to take advantage of infrastructure as a service solution IBM SmartCloud Enterprise quickly and easily. You will learn everything you need to know about the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, including how to take advantage of cloud computing within your organization.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Navigating to the SCE management console


Once the account has been enabled, you can log on to the IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise management console from where you have control over the basic services and most of the premium services that you have ordered. See the following screenshot which depicts the Support page of the SCE management console:

The SCE management console is the access point of the services, available via www.ibm.com/cloud/enterprise. From the management console, you are able to control all the basic services, get a list of your active instances, retrieve user statistics, find video demos and other useful resources.

Note

An alternative way to control your services is to use the IBM® SmartCloud® Enterprise API, which we will cover in details in the next chapter.

The SCE management console contains four pages as depicted in the previous screenshot: Control panel, Overview, Account, and Support. Let's look at each page individually:

  • The Overview page shows a summary of our account and...