Monthly Updates: Guides and Improvements - April 2025

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Dear community members,

We are delighted to welcome you to this new section dedicated to monthly guides and updates.

Each month, you will find our new guides, designed to help you make the most of our services and products.

You will also discover the latest updates, improvements, and features we have integrated to enhance your experience.

Happy reading,

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Bare Metal Cloud :

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Dedicated Servers

• Configuring an IPv6 block in a vRack    
• Configuring the vRack on your dedicated servers    
• How to reset the Windows Administrator password with the Windows customer rescue system    
• Managing hardware RAID    

Virtual Private Servers

• FAQ VPS OVHcloud    

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Hosted Private Cloud :

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VMware on OVHcloud

• Configuring a vROps alert via the SMTP protocol    
• Technical capabilities and limitations of Public VCF aaS (aka Managed VCD)    — New
• VMware Cloud Director - Network concepts and best practices    
• VMware Cloud Director - Setting up your network after vSphere to VCD migration    — New

SAP on OVHcloud

• SAP HANA on Bare Metal and SAP Application Servers on VMware on OVHcloud    
• SAP infrastructure with SecNumCloud-qualified SAP HANA on Private Cloud    — New
• SAP infrastructure with VMware on OVHcloud solution    

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Manage and Operate :

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Key Management Service (KMS)

• How to connect a compatible product using KMIP protocol    

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Network :

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BGP Service

• BGP Service configuration    — New

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Public Cloud :

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Public Cloud - General Information

• 3-AZ resilience: Mechanisms and reference architectures    — New
• Comparison and resilience of Deployment Modes - Understanding 3-AZ / 1-AZ / Local Zones    

Compute

• Changing the hostname of a Public Cloud instance    
• Creating and configuring an additional disk on an instance    
• Increasing the size of an additional disk    
• Local Zone Compute - Features, Capabilities and Limitations    

Public Cloud Network Services

• Configuring a public IP block in a vRack on a Public Cloud instance    

Analytics

• Analytics - Lifecycle policy    

Data Platform

• Data Platform documentation    

Managed Kubernetes (K8s)

• Backing-up an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster using Velero    

Managed Private Registry (Harbor)

• Creating a private registry with Pulumi    
• FAQ Managed Private Registry (Harbor)    

AI Endpoints

• AI Endpoints - Troubleshooting    — New

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Storage and Backup :

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Object Storage

• Object Storage - Getting started with Object Storage    
• Object Storage - Identity and access management    
• Object Storage - Managing object immutability with Object Lock (WORM)    

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Web Cloud :

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DNS (Domain Name System)

• Configure dynamic DNS (DynHost/DynDNS) for your domain name    
• Securing your domain name with DNSSEC    

Web Hosting

• Web Hosting FAQ  

Web Cloud Databases

• Web Cloud Databases EOS and EOL announcements    

Email and Collaborative Solutions

• How to migrate an MX Plan email address to an OVHcloud Zimbra account    — New

Internet access

• Comment changer mon offre xDSL/Fibre  
• Fin du cuivre - Comment migrer mon offre xDSL vers la Fibre ?  — New

SMS

• SMPP Technical Specifications    

VoIP

• Installer et configurer Softcall (Bêta)