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• Step By Step Ordering
  Explains how the SofltLayer catalog works, how to navigate it to find packages, items, prices to build an order with. How to take those items and verify or place an actual order. Along with how to view your invoice to see the order you just placed.
• Understanding and building an order using the Softlayer order CLI
  In version 5.4.0 of softlayer-python, there is a new slcli command for placing IaaS cloud server orders using the API. This command can also be used to place orders for products that are normally ordered through the IBM Cloud infrastructure customer portal.
• VSI Flavors
  Our public virtual server offering now comes in four distinct virtual server families: balanced, balanced local storage, compute, and memory. With this enhancement, IBM continues its effort to provide you with a first-class public cloud experience by taking the guesswork out of provisioning the right instance flavor for your workload needs.

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• Getting Started With User Data and Post Provisioning Scripts
  The SoftLayer platform lets you add dynamic data and scripts when you place your order. The scripts are executed after

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• Order Evault
  The example shows how to order a evault storage device in a virtual server

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• More Bare Metal Server examples
  Working with Bare Metal Server
• Order a Virtual and Bare Metal Server by frondend/backend vlan or router
  Examples to order a Virtual and Bare Metal Server by frondend/backend vlan or router.
• Order a Virtual Server
  The example can be used to order a public, suspended, transit and dedicated virtual server
• Working with placement groups
  A few examples on interacting with placement group

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• Working with DedicatedHost
  This example below lists a few of the common ways of interacting with DedicatedHost, including how to order, list, order a virtual guest on DedicatedHost.
• Working with Network Vlan
  This example below lists a few of the common ways of interacting with VLANs, including how to order, list, cancel Vlan, and list routers by datacenter.
• Order Load Balancer
  Order a Load Balancer
• Working with placement groups
  A few examples on interacting with placement group
• Order Server with RAID Config
  It order a hardware server with raid configuration

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• Working with Vlans
  A collection of CLI Examples on how to interact with Vlans.

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• Order a Virtual and Bare Metal Server by frondend/backend vlan or router
  Examples to order a Virtual and Bare Metal Server by frondend/backend vlan or router"
• Order a Netscaler
  Example of how to order a Citrix NetScaler.
• Advanced Bare Metal Server Ordering
  Explains how to build a bare metal order, includes how to get packages, prices (including pcie and gpu items), raid setup and vlans
• Order Global IP
  Order a global IPv4 or IPv6
• Order Static Subnet
  Order and attach the static subnet to an specific ip address in a Vlan
• Order Portable Subnet
  Add portable private/public subnet to a Vlan
• Various Place Order Examples
  place_order_cdn.py
• Order an endurance storage (block/file)
  Shows how to order endurance storage devices
• Order a performance storage (block/file)
  Shows how to order performance storage devices
• Order Block/File Storages with Managers
  Creates the new STaaS volumenes, they can be performance/endurance file or block devices
• Order an external authentication
  It allows to order external authentication like 'Symantec Identity Protection' or 'Phone-based authentication'
• Advanced Quote Ordering
  Place an order using a quote with SSH keys and post provisioning scripts. Along with a few examples of how to get the needed data.
• Ordering Vyatta Network Gateways
  Ordering Vyattas
• Ordering with KeyNames
  Examples on how to order anything in the catalog with the proper package and item names.
• Place quote order
  Retrieve an order object from a quote and place an order based on it

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• Order a Vlan
  Order a Network Vlan
• Ordering Raid
  Order a bare metal server with a raid array
• Place quote order
  Retrieve an order object from a quote and place an order based on it