Overview
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…
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Good choice for GPU power platform
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Great infrastructure for monthly dev
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Popular Features
- Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (77)9.090%
- Security controls (74)8.888%
- Operating system support (76)8.686%
- Monitoring tools (70)8.484%
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Pricing
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
starting at $0.51
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
starting at $241.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet
- 9Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime(77) Ratings
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
- 8.8Dynamic scaling(61) Ratings
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
- 8.9Elastic load balancing(51) Ratings
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
- 8.4Pre-configured templates(57) Ratings
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
- 8.4Monitoring tools(70) Ratings
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
- 8.8Pre-defined machine images(61) Ratings
Range of different server configurations available
- 8.6Operating system support(76) Ratings
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
- 8.8Security controls(74) Ratings
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
- 7.5Automation(7) Ratings
Automation of administrative tasks
Product Details
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What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant, dedicated servers that can be deployed and managed as cloud services. They are part of IBM Cloud and are available in either classic or VPC deployment models.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on VPC Infrastructure are dedicated
bare metal servers that provide enhanced networking and connectivity via
virtual private cloud (VPC) capabilities. They’re available now as an
integrated part of IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure are presented as ideal for large, steady state, predictable operations that rely on traditional cloud networking. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server can be customized with over 11 million different configuration combinations. IBM includes 20 TB of bandwidth. Pay-as-you-use with hourly, monthly, or reserved billing at prices set for cost management. CPU technology from Intel® Xeon® , and AMD EPYC™ , and add the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPUs are available.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features
- Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
- Supported: Dynamic scaling
- Supported: Elastic load balancing
- Supported: Pre-configured templates
- Supported: Monitoring tools
- Supported: Pre-defined machine images
- Supported: Operating system support
- Supported: Security controls
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Integrations
- CentOS Linux
- Ubuntu
- Virtuozzo IaaS
- VMware ESXi
- VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud
- McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Veeam Data Platform
- FreeBSD
- NetApp ONTAP Select
- OSNEXUS QuantaStor
- Debian OS
- CloudLinux OS
- Windows Server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- XenServer
- Hyper-V
- Plesk
- Softaculous
- R1Soft Server Back Manager (SBM)
- VyOS
- APF Software Firewall
- Riak
- RVskin
- Microsoft Windows Firewall
- IBM Cloud Analytics
- Fantastico
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
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- Excellent robustness
- Excellent maintainability
- Excellent flexibility in system changes
- Response time for network troubles
- The process of isolating the problem
- Setting priorities according to importance
Functional Cloud Service Automation Platform and very easy to manipulate the features.
- Easy to monitor server performance.
- Application performance management.
- Automation of different Cloud services.
- Not much the advance features setting.
- Migrating large project data.
- Creating effective big data analytics when new user.
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- easy interface
- robustness
- zero down time
- good performance
- may be work on rapid scaling
- and be able to deploy apps directly
- need more info for cost management
IBM Bare Metal Servers for Manufacturing and IoT
- Overall Quality
- Ease of Deployment
- Performance
- Documentation
- Connectivity to other platforms
- Pricing can be made more flexible
We are hopeful that IBM will expand the marketplace and allow better features for OPC and BACNET connectivity.
In general the documentation needs to improve.
Transparent Review.
- Compatible for custom Applications.
- Allows to install needed packages.
- Self install required software like oracle, tools, compliers.
- C compiler wasn't available by default.
- Sendmail feature/package wasn't available by default.
- Dependant on admins to get issues resolved.
IBM Bare Metal
- Security
- Performance
- Availability
- User Friendliness
- Cost
Great infrastructure for monthly dev
- Quick Deployment
- Wide global footprint
- Many auxiliary services beyond servers
- Downtime!
- Limited availability in certain markets
- Some outdated documentation
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
- Ability to host resources quickly
- Enhanced security
- Easily Scalable reources
- The user interface should be a bit more easier to use
- The support resolution times should be reduced
- VPN connectivity must be a basic feauture
Very helpful tool
- The servers are very secure and IBM provides many tools to help [make] sure the servers stay that way.
- I use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to support online gamers on some platforms (frontend and backend)
- I use them for our production hosting.
- Support is very expensive
- Availability of data center in a particular location.
- The UI is not user friendly
Worth [it to use] this Server
- It's provide us wide range of management options[.]
- It's provide us CPU configurations for maximum flexibility and scalability[.]
- Right now nothing I have to improve.
Using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for 12 years
- 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)
Great virtual server configuration software
- Provision of VPC Subnets.
- Network orchestration for our private cloud.
- The functionality and reliability has been awesome.
- I have not experienced any downtime from its capability.
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- Domain name services. Public and private DNS and domain registration.
- IBM Cloud Direct Link. Physical or virtual private connections to IBM Cloud.
- High availability. Enhanced security.
- UI has lot of confusion, new user gets lot confusion while navigation.
- Most of IBM cloud has pre -configured Vm's, very less customization available.
- Very limited varieties of flavors for windows and Linux OS available.
- Compared to AWS very less features like SQL & Oracle DB's are also missing.
- Performance - the servers perform really well, even under stress. We have some long build processes running concurrently, and the server [can] serve other applications without any problems.
- Secure - for the most part, the servers are very secure and IBM provides many tools to help [make] sure the servers stay that way.
- Highly Available - while we have experienced various downtimes and outages with other IBM Cloud offerings, so far, we have not experienced any with [IBM Cloud] Bare Metal Servers.
- Pricing - can be a bit more expensive than some alternatives. Also, [in our experience,] we were offered a discount as part of a data center migration; [however,] when it came to billing time, the discount was not applied, and we had to spend time [providing] evidence of the offer.
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is cheaper among its mee-too
- Faster migration of application and database
- Significantly increased application accessibility
- Lower cost in comparison with its mee-too
- Improved performance
- Server hardware cost completely eliminated
- Technical maintenance cost almost eliminated
- Complex pricing structure
- Limited varieties of windows and Linux versions
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- Unique relationship with hardware manufacturer Lenovo
- Global SoftLayer IP network very unique to IBM
- Deployment of servers were quite fast (within 24 hours)
- Support team was responsive, until [in my experience,] it wasn't.
- Ongoing special pricing / sales on bare metal servers
- Device cataloging including firmware revision dates.
- [In my experience, the] Customer Service Agreement (CSA) has many gaps in terms of responsibility with Bare Metal Servers.
- [I believe] IBM should be deploying servers and firmware updating all components before providing them to customers to prevent component failure.
- [I feel] IBM needs lots of improvement with their legacy VPN to access IMPI management tools. The level of security of it is unparalleled when it works. Having access to KVM / IPMI is critical for any business, and when their VPN service is not working.
- [From my experiences,] IBM deployed faulty hardware, or failed to update firmware per Lenovo notices, only to pass off blame.
- [In my opinion,] IBM's General Counsel and Paralegal held our data/company hostage when components failed, [in my experience] to IBM "gross negligence" (in their words), only to release it if we were to limit damages to $1,000.
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- secure
- good and High performance
- good technical support
- can Supports VPC
- Monitoring issue
- Pricing issue
- expensive Support
Powerful servers at your at your fingertips.
- 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.
Offers functions as advertised
- High Security
- Good Performance
- High Scalability
- Monitoring
- The pricing is a bit costlier
- The UI is not user friendly
Affordable and Flexible Bare Metal Servers
- 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
Secured
Solid Development Environment
- Creating Virtual Private Cloud and virtual server instances was quick and easy, saving us time.
- Documentation for setting up networking was easy to follow.
- IBM Cloud Command Line Interface allowed us to script repetitive tasks.
- The documentation and integration between OpenShift and IBMCloud was not clear. It took some time to figure out which interface to use to setup certain items.
- Better communication between departments could be improved. Had a billing question and had two departments saying it was the other team's issue. Took three days of back and forth to resolve.
- The documentation for loading containers into IBM Cloud OpenShift container registry was not clear. The correct commands were not documented.
Document migrations is another use case we have looked at using IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for. Being able to quickly spin up a temporary environment for migration and remove resources when completed allows us to reduce cost for the user.
- 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.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, not the best, not the Worst
- 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
How IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers help us
- Performance.
- Large offers choice.
- Prices.
- 100 Mbps default uplink.
- Limited bandwidth.
- Price for better network connectivity.