Connecting to IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers through Direct Link

Over the past few months, I’ve had a similar recurring question come up from customers, “How do I access my IBM PowerVS LPARs through my IBM Cloud Direct Link”.  While there is documentation available that shows how to conceptually do it, a practical end-to-end guide does not exist. Let’s first start by reviewing the target

IBM Cloud – Classic vs VPC Networks

 In an earlier post, I wrote about how I needed to create a squid proxy server to get access to the internet from a server in my IBM Cloud Classic private network. What I want to do in this post is dive a bit deeper into the Classic network architecture and how that compares to

Setting up a Squid Proxy on Centos 8 in IBM Cloud

Squid is an open-source proxy server that can support a wide variety of protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS. One of its uses is as a cache in front of large websites to accelerate the delivery of content. In my use case I used it as a forward proxy for outgoing HTTP requests to the