> ## Documentation Index
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Data Virtualization

By using Data Virtualization, you can virtualize data across multiple sources without physically moving or copying the data.

## Get started

- [Getting started with Data Virtualization](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-getting-started&format=markdown)

## How to

- [Provisioning a service instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-provisioning&format=markdown)
- [Connecting to your service instance](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-connect_ov&format=markdown)
- [APIs and SDKs](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-con_rest_api&format=markdown)
- [Administration and security](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-admin&format=markdown)

## Reference

- API reference
   - [Catalog Management](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/resource-catalog/private-catalog)
   - [Enterprise Management](https://{DomainName}/apidocs/enterprise-apis/enterprise)
   - [Data Virtualization REST APIs](https://{DomainName}/apidocs/data-virtualization-on-cloud)
- Command references
   - [Data Virtualization CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-CLI-name&format=markdown)
   - [Catalogs management CLI plug-in](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-manage-catalogs-plugin&format=markdown)
   - [Managing accounts, users, and Cloud Foundry orgs (ibmcloud account)](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-ibmcloud_commands_account&format=markdown)
- Other references
   - [IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service documentation](https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/getting-started/welcome-main.html?format=markdown)
   - [Catalog](https://{DomainName}/catalog/services/data-virtualization)

## Help

- [FAQs - General](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/data-virtualization?topic=data-virtualization-faq_dv&format=markdown)