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We are using it for running the internal infrastructure like k8s clusters and other applications. Currently, on Infosec, our Cloud and DevOps team is using it. This helps us in running the applications like CI-CD tools, monitoring applications, clusters on the secure and dedicated hardware. Some of these services need dedicated servers due to compliance issues.
- Highly available
- Highly secure
- Completely isolated environment
- Sometimes difficult for a beginner to start with it
- Support could have been better
We were using the IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for the ML model training. Our experience was good as we can start the server any time and start the training for the model and after finishing the work we can easily shut it down or remove the server after taking a snapshot of the server.
May 18, 2021
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are fully dedicated servers offering top performance and security. We are using this service in my organization in some departments. We use them for our production hosting. We are very happy with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers because we never faced any downtime with this product.
- No downtime
- Lots of backup services
- High performance
- Good security
- Best technical support
- Problem with some platforms
- Support is very expensive
- High price compared to other vendors
this is really very good product. i never faced any issue with this.no downtime and always very fast performance.
May 10, 2021
We are currently using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers in a few specific departments where our data is critical and at the same time, we need the flexibility of scaling, security, and management. This is our second time getting in contract, and we never experienced any kind of latency. All the departments that are running on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are blazing fast and are doing extremely well in terms of efficiency and also the performance. We first tried this out when we needed a fully custom machine type and yet needed someone to help us manage the infrastructure. We accidentally came across it and decided that this would be the best choice.
- Security
- Scalability
- Customization
- High performance
- Supports GPU
- Supports VPC
- Slower support (rarely, but yes)
- Availability of data center in a particular location.
- Pricing
- Monitoring
- Lot of notifications
Our experience is awesome with the data incentive applications. Though we run quite a heavy workload, the servers respond with no latency. In fact, this is one of the points IBM Bare Metal Servers shine.
May 22, 2021
We are using the IBM Cloud Bare Metal server for the deployment of our secure chat system. We are using it because we can directly log in on the hardware & can access the root also. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server provides high availability with no such long-term commitment.
- High availability & reliable for high traffic applications
- It provides secure environment for applications
- Pr-configured Templates makes the work easier
- Easy documentation required for new users
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server Provides Auto Scaling & Elastic load balancing feature that manages the sudden peak traffic & handles the application load results in high availability. It automatically adds additional resources in peak time & removes [them] when everything backs to normal.
We use it in IT for test and creating QA environments for our customers and clients. We solve issues relating to incomplete code, regression testing, blue/green deployments, unit testing. and other QA related tasks. It also helps us gather more details that we can provide our clients on what is tested and verified before shipping new releases.
- Easy access
- Great support for console access
- Bandwidth costs are minimal compared to other cloud vendors
- More apis
- More stability
- To many notifications about unrelated items
Big data is quick and easy to configure. I have not had alot of experience configuring Big data and streaming apps specifically so I cannot speak to this directly.
June 11, 2021
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers provides a full dedicated customizable servers infrastructure. IBM has done a good job in simplifying the provision and setup of the Bare Metal Servers
- High level of security.
- Good performance.
- The user interface and the speed of deploying are fantastic.
- No option to define maintenance times.
- The offering from IBM is a bit expensive.
Our company uses Cloud Bare Metal Servers in multiple cases. It helps in improving our data security and is easier to manage when compared to other vendors. The customization is also amazing where we can choose custom cores and based on it, pricing is done. Also, it has the latest VMWare software whereas other vendors use outdated or lower version software.
- High Security
- Good Performance
- High Scalability
- Monitoring
- The pricing is a bit costlier
- The UI is not user friendly
The streaming capability is extremely good. It is very fast and loads the website faster. Our backend server can hold multiple users simultaneously using the website and through multiple locations.
December 25, 2020
[IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers] is currently being used across the whole organization for delivery of all of our products across a standard platform both within the continental United States and Europe and Asia. It allows for performances to be met at a generally cost-effective price point so we can deliver our products consistently, continuously, and stably.
- Multiple processor options close to the latest offerings from Intel.
- Many options of RAM for different memory requirements.
- Multiple RAID arrays and disk options for the customers to configure.
- Firmware upgrades are not always easy to perform and can be required at unusual time intervals at different datacenters.
- No networking monitoring is available.
- Changes on the IBM side can cause an outage, so you MUST plan for redundancy when building out.
Data intensive applications run very well. These machines a "built" for this kind of load. Word of advice, don't skimp on the network cards, nor the dual-bonding, in the event of streaming, as the 1GB tends to be not enough to handle what the rest of a high-performant box can load.
April 08, 2021
I use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to support online gamers on some platforms (frontend and backend) and provide a backend for the game hosted on other platforms. I've used IBM Cloud Server for 12 years starting from the time it was Softlayer. I hosted it in a couple of datacenters so far. I use Microsoft Windows and MSSQL Server software.
- Good quality support
- Good quality of hardware
- Transparency about technical issues, security issues
- The new IBM cloud customer site is not convenient
- Relatively high prices of hardware and bandwidth
- Relatively high prices for storage
- Not flexible server storage configuration (SSD options related)
I used IBM Cloud Metal servers for 12 years (from the times it was Softlayer). I used it for intensive applications and games with tens of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of users online. I use Microsoft Windows and MSSQL database server with large databases. So far IBM Cloud Metal Servers had proven to provide robust solution.
We use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to publish our software products. It is being used by a department.
- It solves the unreliability issues of our portal.
- It's being used to process the compute-heavy genetic infrastructure of microbes we research.
- Performance and support is great.
- Less user friendly.
- Hard to use.
It was pretty amazing. I didn't face so many issues.
August 25, 2020
We use our IBM Bare Metal Servers for most of our server infrastructure needs, either in-house services, or hosted services for customers, and also prototypes and demos. We develop services for contact centers, so it's important to be able to build a very specific feature and prototype it quickly, mirroring as closely as possible the customer's environment, whether they run Bare Metal, VMs or containers. With our IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have been able to provide a solution efficiently.
- Strong reliability
- Availability of servers and capacities.
- Network capacity and pricing.
- Better hardware options for longer terms.
- Better pricing for longer terms.
- Better upgrade incentives to move to newer hardware.
As we run contact center applications, it is very important to have a known, dedicated, and dependable server and network capacity. And if we need more or less, it is quick enough (for our projects) to change things. And the flexibility to run things on VM or Bare-metal allows us to host anything we need, which is hardly the case with cloud solutions such as AWS. Sometimes a customer would need a specific SD-WAN solution or a specific security software with specific networking or storage needs, and that is just not possible on AWS or similar services.
November 07, 2020
We use our IBM Bare Metal Servers for most of our production hosting needs. We develop and manage a number of content portals that generate substantial traffic, so it's important to be able to build a solid infrastructure that handles traffic spike. With our IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, we have been able to record sustained growth for many years.
- Reliable platform, never had any issue with the hardware.
- Reliable infrastructure, 100% uptime in so many years.
- Network capacity and pricing.
- Real-time support.
- Better upgrade incentives to move to newer hardware.
- Chat support could improve and be more responsive.
- Data centers in MENA.
Servers have run at low utilization for years and are fast and reliable. Our sites serve millions of content articles with no issues.
September 06, 2020
We use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to publish our software products and also to support our clients that don't own cloud infrastructure or don't want to have our products in their cloud, clients that just want the service running. We found that IBM Cloud is our best option to work with. We are a small software business, with fewer than 5 employees and we just reached five years of experience with IBM Cloud. We love it and want to keep going. We are fine with the Bare Metal Servers that we own. We get notifications every time we need to schedule the maintenance. Our clients are also happy the service is always up and running when needed.
- Never down
- Always trusty
- All the resources work for me
- Log with a recommendation to improve the servers' issues
- Webinars that help to know what else I can do with my servers.
- Email the monthly dashboard
Sometimes our products need to load a lot of data, sometimes daily, sometimes monthly, and with that data, we need to perform many calculations, over and over. So far we have no complaints about it. We build our Bare Metal Server with much RAM and we believe that it has the power to perform what we need.
September 04, 2020
It's being used to process compute-heavy genetic infrastructure of microbes we research. It solves the unreliability issues of our portal.
- 100% reliable
- Zero down time
- Dedicated unlimited computational power
- Cost is high if no startup credit is applied for before initiating work on it.
- Machine migration process is complicated.
- Insufficient tutorials and one click solutions
Literally Excellent. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are no match for service providers and no other options can compete with them. Our experience was very good. For the price, we were able to make remarkable achievements in processing our medical research.
August 31, 2020
We use several bare metal servers to support business operations, including sales (multiple web sites), management (back end intranet system), and marketing (newsletters). Our operation is using a proprietary system to manage our inventory, production and sales all together. This system is hosted online as we have staff in multiple locations, including programmers and office staff. We are able to keep all of our data online with real-time updates from the programmers and live updates to our customers on the production status.
- Multiple locations for distributed computing allowing faster download speeds for our customers and staff alike
- Full service of domain registrations, SSL purchases, server rental, DNS servers, etc. This allows us to keep all of our necessary related services within a single console and single billing system.
- Good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery
- New console is confusing and hard to navigate. Integration of the "classic interface" is sometimes redundant and doesn't function well. This is especially apparent in the trouble ticket section where legacy trouble tickets are not found.
- Hardware support is almost non-existent unless paying a very high monthly fee. The "free" support that comes with renting a server (or servers) for up to $2,000/mo is laughable at best. Our server was down and no response from tech support for over 24 hours and no way to escalate the ticket as we were not "premium" subscribers.
- Connecting to KVM for remote access is only possible over an SSL VPN connection, which requires the use of Internet Explorer which is soon to be removed and is currently only accessible by search. A newer, updated system needs to be put in place to gain remote access.
As our operation is a single company with multiple websites, we do not really have Big Data applications. Our databases rarely exceed 6-10 million records for any particular table. We do not use media and/or streaming applications.
August 25, 2020
We use IBM Bare Metal servers for hosting web applications. Their performance is great, and their support is even better. I really appreciate all of the communication, updates, and flexibility that IBM offers. The scalability is easy and all of the services are very cost-effective. No more AWS! IBM is the best!
- Scalability
- Cost effective
- Performance
- Security
- Needed to work with a sales rep to get exactly what I needed.
- Had to move my server after one year since they were shutting down a data center (they gave 9 months notice though).
- Bandwidth is limited too much in my opinion.
My servers have run at 3-5% utilization for 8+ years. IBM servers are fast and reliable. No issues running my workloads.
November 19, 2020
I used it throughout everything I do for hosting. It addresses all my hosting problems for personal hosting and client hosting.
- Adding on memory
- Support
- Potential of greater processing power
- I have switched to virtual servers because of their quickness of resources
- Reloading OS takes a long time
- Pricing
- Everything seems slower than a virtual server
I primarily used bare metal servers to run message boards at the time. I feel like the traffic was too much load for one server and the lack of load balancing made me fail a lot with my experience.
September 04, 2020
We have utilized IBM Cloud Virtual and Bare Metal Servers to help our business scale and grow over the past 6 years. Service has been good, pricing has been fair, and we have peace of mind by working with a top-shelf vendor like IBM. I would recommend IBM Cloud to any small business looking to grow as we did.
- Fair pricing
- Latest technology
- Real-time support
- Certain support was lacking when we had a server drive failure. It would have been appropriate for IBM technicians to help us get a server set up since the failure was hardware related AND the back up we had been paying for wasn't properly archived.
September 03, 2020
We are using it as our high performing servers to train models for AI projects. We get to utilize servers fully, providing power instead of sharing with others.
- Training models for data science projects are much faster and a lot more cost-effective than paying by the hour/per use.
- Test environment.
- Cost effective. Cloud Bare Metal Servers are much cheaper than if you do the calculation and are running 24/7.
- More customization like turn off auto-update, linking servers to turn to HPC, even overclock to safe limits.
- Access to other IBM products like nvidia a100, amc processor with nvidia graphic cards, etc.
- Installing Chrome, and other Windows tweaks.
Having IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers has been awesome for training data for financials, biometrics, etc.
November 09, 2020
We utilize IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to run custom Ubuntu servers. The entire company's dashboard application, which supports both clients and our own operations, is run through these servers. We needed IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to run our custom stack back in 2014, and we have been utilizing them ever since.
- Extremely high reliability
- Monitoring was easy to setup
- Internal networking is fast
- Maintenance takes Bare Metal offline at unusual times
- Support is not always reachable
- IBM Cloud Dashboard is not the fastest
We run Elasticsearch using these machines, and it performs great. We have zero complaints with the performance of the machines in regard to being able to handle large loads of client and end-user data. The security of the IBM Cloud allows us to enhance our datasets with the mindfulness of knowing that our data is secure.
October 20, 2020
We use it as development and testing platform. It turned out that the stability is top notch. We got 100% uptime during last 4 years, so we highly consider it as our production platform too. The platform is no longer supported since it has been discontinued and considered as legacy service, but we still use it by our own risk since the platform is really stable & reliable.
- Reliable platform, never have any issue with the hardware.
- Reliable infrastructure, 100% uptime during last 4 years in service.
- The service price is higher than most competitors but it is worth considering its reliability.
- Ability to switch OS/platform license to customer's own license without being re-deploy.
- Procedure for easy hardware refresh (especially hard drive) to ease cloning content to new hard drive. We have a 6 years disk and we very concern about it.
- Other than that, everything is OK.
We're making an AFTM/ACDM (Air Traffic Flow Management/Airport Collaborative Decision Making) system based on IoT and real data processing. We process aircraft data in milliseconds resolution, that about 500 aircraft per second with up to 50 parameters per aircraft. The Bare Metal we use is the benchmark how far our system can be pushed to process air traffic in a real-time. It became the minimum specs for our system.
October 19, 2020
IBM Cloud Bare Metal help us in R&D department. We use it for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. We have access to high quality servers with very good performances. We run very intensive tasks and the servers are always powerful. We save a lot of time running this task on big servers in Cloud.
- Performance.
- Large offers choice.
- Prices.
- 100 Mbps default uplink.
- Limited bandwidth.
- Price for better network connectivity.
We run Machine Learning on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. It’s a perfect choice for intensive applications. The hardware is very powerful and can save a lot of time running this tasks in Cloud. We store a lot of data for run our machine learning and servers are adapted to store good amount of data.
September 04, 2020
We started using this service around 2012 as a solution to host multiple websites, when SoftLayer was not yet part of IBM. We use this service exclusively for this purpose. This service solves our necessity to host multiple websites on a secure environment. We use 5 bare metal servers for this purpose.
- Professional and proactive tech support.
- Great performance on servers.
- Nice interface to manage the infrastructure and services.
- Sometimes Chat support is not very useful.
- Some services are expensive if you compare them with cloud infrastructure.
We started our journey on this service looking for a professional web hosting service. As time passed, we used one server to host a Kaltura Open server, which transcoded and served video files. And it worked perfectly. The performance in the servers in general was always great.
Other server that had intensive usage was a Database server, that served more than 20 different databases for several websites and it worked perfect, even on heavy load times.
Other server that had intensive usage was a Database server, that served more than 20 different databases for several websites and it worked perfect, even on heavy load times.
August 25, 2020
We are using Bare-Metal Servers to host web applications and REST APIs. We also use them for deployment and staging environments.
- Good customization
- Fast connectivity
- Reliable hardware
- Expensive compared to other providers.
- Lack of included priority support.
- Admin portal is slow and difficult to use.
- Basic support response is extremely slow.
January 13, 2020
We are a cloud gaming based company. So we use highly-configured bare-metal servers with GPUs across the organization. We were able to utilize the entire performance of the hardware since bare metal servers are single-tenant, unlike virtual cloud servers.
- High performance backed by single-tenant sharing.
- Cheaper than public virtual servers by around 60%.
- Initial set-up times are high! It's rare, but they do take around 30 hours.
- Not a good option to run temporary workloads while scaling up.
We continuously stream a VM on the Bare Metal Servers for our users to game on. The servers are backed by the latest hardware such as the Nvidia V100s to render and stream the application data to the user. We have never experienced any system hang even when we running our weekly maintenance that takes a lot of computing power.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?
IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly and monthly options, on-demand, around the globe—with a complete selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Customize RAM and SSDs to meet a variety of workload requirements with 11M+ configurations to choose from for total control up and down the stack.
Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize
with single to quad processing solutions.
On demand
Provision servers in IBM Cloud data centers around the world in two to
four hours. If you need to be online in minutes or only need limited
resources, select an hourly bare metal server.
Powerful
Available options from single processor 4-core architectures to
quad-processor 12-core architectures and up to 3TB RAM. Local storage
ranges from 800 GB to 1.2 TB SSDs and up to 36 drivers per server.
SAP integration
Shift SAP environments from on-premise to the fully powered IBM Cloud. SAP HANA 4-socket and
8-socket bare metal servers are SAP certified for production S/4 HANA
workloads.
GPU integration
Provision bare metal servers with cutting-edge NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to handle the most
complex compute-intensive workloads for high performance acceleration of scientific computation,
data analytics, AI, machine learning and professional-grade virtualized graphics.
Categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Integrations
CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Odin Virtuozzo, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud, McAfee Total Protection, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, Veeam Backup & Replication, FreeBSD, NetApp ONTAP Select, CloudLinux, Debian, Microsoft, Red Hat, Vyatta Virtual Router Appliance, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, APF Software Firewall, McAfee Anti-Virus, McAfee Host Intrustion Protection, Microsoft Windows Firewall, Basho Riak, IBM Cloud Analytics, Fantastico, RVSkin, Softaculous, Plesk - ONYX, R1 Soft Server Backup Manager Enterprise, OSNEXUS QuantaStor
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Competitors
Alibaba ECS Bare Metal Servers, Oracle Bare Metal Servers, Rackspace Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?Optional
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | starting at $0.51 | per hour |
| IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | starting at $324.00 | per month |
IBM Bare Metal Servers provide performance, flexibility, on-demand provisioning, and control. Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize with single to quad processing solutions that range from 4 to 72 cores. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts so you can build the best solution for your workloads. Order a monthly bare metal server built to spec, and we’ll have it to you in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. Order an hourly bare metal server, and we’ll have it ready for you in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Support Options
| Free Version | Paid Version | |
|---|---|---|
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| Video Tutorials / Webinar |
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application: | Mobile Web |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?
IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.
What are IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers's top competitors?
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and DigitalOcean are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.
What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers's best feature?
Reviewers rate Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime highest, with a score of 8.3.
Who uses IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?
The most common users of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are from Small Businesses and the Information Technology & Services industry.