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Explore the Hyper Protect Virtual Servers CLI

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In this trial, you will use the Hyper Protect Virtual Servers CLI (hpvs command) to interact with the Hyper Protect Virtual Servers Hosting Appliance in order to perform the various actions necessary for Secure Build, or Bring Your Own Image. Here is a quick introduction to the commands available through this CLI.

  1. See the different commands you could enter with:

    hpvs --help
    
    Example Output
    IBM® Hyper Protect Virtual Servers, the evolution of the
    IBM® Secure Service Container for IBM® Cloud Private offering,
    protects Linux workloads on IBM Z and LinuxONE throughout their
    lifecycle build management and deployment.
    This solution delivers the security needed to protect
    mission critical applications in hybrid multi-cloud deployments.
    
    Usage:
    hpvs [command]
    
    Available Commands:
    crypto      Crypto command
    deploy      Deploy command
    help        Help about any command
    host        Host command
    image       Image Command
    network     Network command
    quotagroup  Quotagroup command
    regfile     Generate encrypted repository registration file. If you have already image build on s390x arch
    registry    Registry command
    repository  Repository command
    sb          SecureBuild command
    snapshot    Snapshot command
    version     Print hpvs version
    vs          Virtual Server command
    
    Flags:
        --debug                   If --debug is passed, it will enable debug logs
    -h, --help                    Help for hpvs
        --host string             Host LPAR name
        --log-output-dir string   Set log output directory
    
    Use "hpvs [command] --help" for more information about a command.
    
  2. For further exploration of the Hyper Protect Virtual Servers CLI see the IBM Documentation.