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  • 1.  Deployment of ISAM and ISDS into IBM Cloud

    Posted Wed June 09, 2021 09:53 AM
    I'm looking to deploy a private small scale PoC of ISAM v10 and ISDS into the IBM Cloud running on some VPC instances and running into some issues:

    1. Is it supported?

    2. Regardless of the first question, is it possible? There only seems to be VHD images for Xen and HyperV available from software catalog. Seems strange for IBM to not support their own cloud platform

    3. Is there some way to boot from ISO and install to a VPC like I would for desktop Virtualisation software on IBM Cloud?

    I know the hosted managed service version of ISAM exists, but this only a wee PoC where I really would like to have full control over the configuration to keep things simple and cheap

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    Dennis English
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  • 2.  RE: Deployment of ISAM and ISDS into IBM Cloud

    Posted Thu June 10, 2021 02:33 AM
    Hello Dennis,

    From a IBM Cloud VPC, you can link " classic infrastructure .
    For a POC I would deploy a VSI ( virtual server infrastructure, RHEL or Ubuntu or CentOS) and install KVM and boot the iso. Otherwise one need to order a physical machine with VMware on top of it.
    The Verify Access is not in the "IBM Cloud Catalogue"
    The alternative is to deploy a VSI and install docker on this machine or you can also install a Kubernetes cluster and install Verify access on this and let it communicate with ISDS.  The ISDS 6.4 can be installed as software bundle.  You also have the Federated Directory server appliance but with the appliance you have the same challenges as the Verify Access Manager appliance.  You need to have a component that can boot a ISO file
    Feel free to reach out if you want additional info

    Kind regards
    Serge Vereecke


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    Serge Vereecke
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  • 3.  RE: Deployment of ISAM and ISDS into IBM Cloud

    Posted Thu July 15, 2021 12:50 PM
    Hello

    Unfortunately IBM Cloud VPC custom images has the following requirements that can't be met by ISAM Virtual appliance :

    https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-images#custom-image-reqs


    I would suggest to use IBM Cloud VmWare Shared

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    Gianluca Gargaro
    IBM
    Roma
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