Subscribing to IP4G

Determine which Google Cloud Billing Account you would like to use for the IBM Power for Google Cloud subscription.

Create a new Google Cloud Project that is associated with the Billing Account. This Google Cloud Project will be used to grant IBM Power for Google Cloud Administrators to the IBM Power for Google Cloud Marketplace Solution.

After you select the IBM Power for Google Cloud tile, review the available cloud instance plans and subscribe to the desired plan. Follow the workflow to register for the service and proceed to the initial configuration steps.

During the subscribing process, you must supply the information about your project, VPC, and the CIDR range for VMs created in your instance plan. This information is the basis of a series of gcloud commands that you run against your Google project to establish a connection to the service. This connection is a VPC Peering between your VPC and an IBM-managed tenant project over the Google network fabric. After the initial configuration is complete, access to the VM management GUI is enabled and your selected project is connected to your cloud instance. Next, you can create an LPAR and verify that you can connect to the LPAR.

You can change cloud instance plans to different size plans if capacity demands change over time.

To view a video on the subscription process, see here.