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  • 1.  Seeking guidance on IBM Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

    Posted Fri February 06, 2026 09:27 AM

    Hello community,

    I am looking for guidance on implementing and managing applications on IBM Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). I'm specifically interested in understanding best practices for deploying and scaling workloads, as well as security considerations. If anyone has experience or resources to share, I would greatly appreciate your insights.

    Thank you,

    Halim Dimitry 



  • 2.  RE: Seeking guidance on IBM Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

    Posted Sun February 08, 2026 08:31 AM

    Hi Dimitry,

    Please find some useful resources around same topics, hope that would give some insights.

    IBM Well-Architected
    https://www.ibm.com/think/architectures/well-architected
     
    What is infrastructure as a service (IaaS)?
    https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/iaas
     
    Featured products and solutions
    https://www.ibm.com/solutions/cloud
    - Regulated Industries
    - Infrastructure
    - Application and Data
    - Security
     
    Explore our 230+ products and solutions
    IBM Cloud products
    https://www.ibm.com/products/cloud
     
    IBM Cloud Docs
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview
     
    Cloud
    https://www.ibm.com/think/cloud
     
    Best practices for organizing resources and assigning access
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-account_setup
     
    Building secure and scalable Cloud infrastructure with IBM Cloud Projects
    https://developer.ibm.com/articles/awb-build-secure-cloud-infrastructure-code/
     
    Solution Tutorials: Scale workloads in shared and dedicated VPC environments
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/solution-tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-vpc-scaling-dedicated-compute
     
    VPC - Creating an instance group for auto scaling
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-creating-auto-scale-instance-group&interface=ui
     
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud: Preparing your cluster for autoscaling
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openshift?topic=openshift-cluster-scaling-classic-vpc&interface=ui
     
    Code Engine (Serverless): Configuring application scaling
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-app-scale
     
    Security on IBM Cloud
    https://www.ibm.com/products/cloud/security#tabs-fw-9b548515d1-item-5081ac4965-tab
     
    IBM Security and Compliance Center Workload Protection
    https://www.ibm.com/products/security-and-compliance-center
    https://cloud.ibm.com/media/docs/pdf/workload-protection/workload-protection.pdf

    Kind Regards,

    Imran



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    IMRAN KHAN
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  • 3.  RE: Seeking guidance on IBM Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

    Posted Mon February 09, 2026 09:51 AM

    Hi Dimitry, 

    Greenfield or brownfield implementations on IBM Cloud are again quite similar as per other cloud hyperscalers.

    We used BRMS, ICC, FalconStor VTL, GRS, MWA (Migrate While Active), AIX NIM and MKSYSB - all these technologies for PowerVS (IBMi and AIX) workloads.

    VeloCloud (SDWAN in VPC), Fortigate (Classic/VPC), Juniper etc. Network appliances on the cloud side as gateway or firewalling. CIS for layer 7 application load balancing. 

    Direct Link and VPN for VPC for OnPrem to Cloud connectivity (based on use case)

    RMM (Rackware Migration Module) to migrate 100s of VMs on VPC infrastructure.

    OpenShift Virtualization (currently on very initial stage) for migrating VMWare (Onprem and VCFaaS in IBM cloud) to VPC VSIs. 

    these are quite few of these. if something is not possible on IBM cloud, you can tweak that and make as possible. 

    Like VeloCloud SDWAN, x86 BYOL etc. we are the first partner of IBM who implemented this IBM cloud for or 2 back to back customers. there are many more technologies.



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    Narender Singh
    Cloud Solutions Architect - IBM/Azure/GCP
    GlassHouse Systems Inc
    Toronto ON
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  • 4.  RE: Seeking guidance on IBM Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

    Posted Mon February 09, 2026 03:46 AM
    Edited by Bharanidharan Janarthanan Mon February 09, 2026 03:46 AM

    Hi Dimitry,

    I would also recommend looking into the following technical documentation and implementation-focused guides that dive deeper into deployment, scaling, and operational best practices:

    IBM Cloud VPC Architecture & Security Model
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-vpc

    IBM Cloud Load Balancers (High Availability & Traffic Distribution)
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-load-balancers

    IBM Cloud Monitoring and Logging
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/log-analysis

    IBM Key Protect (Encryption & Key Management)
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/key-protect

    IBM Cloud IAM – Best Practices for Access Control
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-iamoverview

    Backup & Disaster Recovery in IBM Cloud VPC
    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-backup

    For production-grade workloads, I've seen strong results when combining:

    • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform on IBM Cloud)

    • Auto Scaling Groups (VPC instance groups)

    • Multi-zone deployment for HA

    • Monitoring-driven scaling policies

    • Security groups with least-privilege IAM roles

    These complement the Well-Architected guidance nicely and help translate theory into operational best practices.



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    Bharanidharan J
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