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Introduction

Mentioned earlier throughout this Level 3 course are the variety of features available for managing PowerVS instances after the infrastructure and services are deployed. The ability to customize and scale these environments post-provisioning are precisely the cloud benefits that draw clients toward an investment in PowerVS. Next, dive deeper into the following advanced topics.

Specifically, explore each of the following categories in turn:

  • Virtual appliances
  • Shared processor pools and server placement groups
  • SSH keys
  • Boot images
  • Networking
  • Storage volumes
  • Event logs
  • Additional products and services

Setting the workspace to PowerVS-L3-2025

For this section of the demonstration guide, at the start of every activity, Please ensure the workspace is set to PowerVS-L3-2025. To do so, follow the steps below...

  1. Change to the 2305900 - ITZ - ADHOC03 (B) account by using the drop-down switcher (A). image

  2. Navigate to https://cloud.ibm.com/power/workspaces (A) URL in the browser window to open the PowerVS workspaces view. image

  3. Click PowerVS-L3-2025 (A). image

  4. Click View virtual servers (A) to open up the virtual server instances view. image

  5. The Virtual Server Instances (VSI) view opens under the PowerVS-L3-2025 workspace, displaying the three VSIs created so far. image