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Considerations for HPC cluster Automatically configure new DNS zones and DNS custom resolvers
compute types Creating DNS zones
for your IBM Spectrum LSF when you deploy the cluster.
with an existing IBM
Deployment values Cloud DNS Services
IBM Cloud® DNS Services provides private DNS to VPC users. Also, instance ID
Integrating existing infrastructure if you have an IBM Cloud® DNS Services instance ID, you can
specify that ID when you create the DNS zones or custom resolvers DNS custom resolvers
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for your IBM
for your IBM Spectrum LSF cluster.
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DNS zones for your IBM Spectrum LSF cluster
IBM® Key Protect and
encryption keys Private DNS zones are resolvable only on IBM Cloud®, and only from

Release notes explicitly permitted networks in an account.

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Creating DNS zones without an IBM Cloud DNS
Services instance ID
Expand all | Collapse all If you do not have an existing IBM Cloud DNS Service instance
setup and want to automatically create and manage a new DNS
instance ID, then leave the dns_instance_id deployment input
value as null during deployment. In this case, the deployment

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creates a VPC (as necessary), DNS service instance ID, and the
respective DNS zones. This process includes associating the new
VPC under the appropriate permitted network.
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Creating DNS zones with an existing IBM Cloud DNS
Services instance ID
If you have an existing VPC with IBM Cloud DNS Service instance
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ID, provide that service instance ID as the dns_instance_id
LSF
deployment input value during IBM Spectrum LSF cluster
About IBM Spectrum LSF deployment. In this case, since you already have a DNS service
instance ID to use, the IBM Cloud cluster deployment skips
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creating a new DNS service instance, and creates new DNS zones
compute types
from the dns_domain_names value for the existing DNS service
Deployment values instance. This process automatically associates the new DNS zones
to your existing VPC under the permitted network.

Furthermore, if you have an existing IBM Cloud DNS Service

DNS zones and DNS custom instance setup, but want the IBM Spectrum LSF deployment to
resolvers create a new VPC for your IBM Spectrum LSF cluster, provide the
dns_instance_id deployment input value during deployment. The
IBM® Key Protect and
deployment automatically creates a new VPC with your existing
encryption keys
DNS service instance, and creates new DNS zones for the existing
Release notes DNS service instance. This process automatically associates the
new VPC under the permitted network.

Note: A VPC cannot be a permitted network for

| domains of the same name. When you use an existing
DNS instance ID, make sure that the DNS domains are
not duplicated to avoid association issues; otherwise,
you can encounter a message similar to: Error
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creating PDNS permitted network: The VPC was

already associated to the same DNS zone name.

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DNS custom resolvers for your IBM Spectrum
LSF cluster

Getting started with IBM Spectrum A private DNS custom resolver extends IBM Cloud DNS Service's
LSF capability to meet the needs of a hybrid cloud environment. It
enables resolution of the IBM Cloud VPC hostnames from on-
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premises DNS resolvers. It also enables the resolution of on-
Considerations for HPC cluster premises hostnames from IBM Cloud.
compute types
A custom resolver can always be associated with a VPC for domain
Deployment values name resolution. Instead of using the dedicated IBM DNS servers
for resolution, you can have a managed resolution through the VPC.

Creating custom resolvers without an existing VPC

DNS zones and DNS custom
resolvers If you want a new custom resolver to be created and associated
with the newly created VPC for name resolution, then leave the
IBM® Key Protect and dns_custom_resolver_id deployment input value as null during
encryption keys
IBM Spectrum LSF cluster deployment. The deployment process
Release notes automatically creates a new VPC and a creates and enables a new
custom resolver for your cluster.

Creating custom resolvers with an existing VPC

| If you already have an existing VPC and the VPC already has a
custom resolver that is associated with it, then you can provide that
resolver ID for the dns_custom_resolver_id deployment input
value during IBM Spectrum LSF cluster deployment. In this case,

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the deployment automatically uses the existing VPC for all

infrastructure creation, and skips creating a new custom resolver.

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custom resolver. You can have multiple custom
resolvers, but you can associate each one to only a
single VPC; otherwise, you can encounter a message
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similar to: Error reading the custom resolver. The
LSF
VPC already has a custom resolver . You can view

About IBM Spectrum LSF your existing DNS resolver IDs in IBM Cloud DNS
Services.
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