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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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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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  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (77)
    9.0
    90%
  • Security controls (74)
    8.8
    88%
  • Operating system support (76)
    8.6
    86%
  • Monitoring tools (70)
    8.4
    84%

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

starting at $241.00

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  • Setup fee optional
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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

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Product Details

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

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Screenshots

Screenshot of ConfiguringScreenshot of Bandwidth ProvisioningScreenshot of Remote ManagementScreenshot of Firmware Management

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Alibaba Cloud ECS Bare Metal Servers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Rackspace Managed Hosting are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.

Reviewers rate Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Diana Dumpsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Effective Cloud system for easy servers management and very powerful on big data migration and the real time data analytics creation using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers tools is perfect. I admire the capability for easy Cloud data access control and metadata management through this software is excellent and even Cloud service monitoring is amazing.
  • 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.
The tools offered by IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are extremely powerful and the stability is good. Automating different Cloud operations and the marketing dataflow management is very excellent. The reports are easy to understand and data quality control functions on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are very effective and the integration tools are perfect.
November 01, 2022

IBM cloud review

Rishav Karanjit | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). We have virtual server running inside VPC. We access the VPC by doing SSH into the server using command line. Locally, we use windows machine but we use mobaxterm (other application) to use SSH. We prefer SSH over other windows options. Our use case is to host website inside the VPC.
  • SSH
  • No down time until now
  • Cost efficiency
  • Low tutorial on internet
  • Would be very helpful if docs include video demo as well.
Our use case is small. We use only one region and zone. I think IBM cloud VPC does well in larger cloud infrastructure as well. In case if the user is only learning about cloud, I would not recommend IBM cloud. IBM cloud does have good documentation but generally someone who is new to cloud would like to have a video demo.
October 28, 2022

IBM Bare Metal

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used IBM Cloud Bare metal server to run my company’s website, web apps, database, etc.
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • User Friendliness
  • Cost
IBM Cloud Bare Metal is great in scenarios where you need high availability and high performance, but of course this comes at a cost. If someone needs a simple static site obviously they are not going to use bare metal. But if you are running a web app where performance and availability is critical, it makes a lot of sense to go bare metal.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers in our organization to host our servers in the cloud. IBM Cloud provides us with a really cost-effective alternative for adding servers to our infrastructure. If we look to buy a physical server, the cost runs into thousands of dollars plus the cost to run and maintain it whereas the IBM cloud charges us on an hourly basis.
  • 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
IBM Cloud Bare Metal servers are best suited if you are looking for an alternative for adding computing resources to your organization's IT domain. The costs of owning and maintaining a physical resource in the organization are far more than renting computing resources on the cloud. The bare-metal servers allow you to utilize the entire server for your organization's requirements.
December 01, 2021

Very helpful tool

Saman Zubairr | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These servers are fully dedicated servers. it's providing us the maximum performance and security-related stuff. When I use it I felt that it gives us very high performance and I am fully satisfied with it. IBM is unique as it has the ability to bind IP addresses that can float across any data center region to allow for fault-tolerant applications bound by a static IP regardless of geographic location. This system has been [used] by [the] global R&D division with [collaborative] working. Our main reason for using Bare Metal is the speed and security it provides over a cloud-based distributed database. As a bare metal IBM Cloud customer, you have complete access to one of the industry's largest selections of standard features and services for bare-metal workloads in both small business and enterprise settings. We deployed the Kubernetes cluster & [are] managing it with the best security practices. Also, it provides direct root access over the hardware. We are using it across all the departments. At times when we have a requirement to add new servers to our environment, we may not have the required computational resources to host the servers or the procurement of new servers is taking time due to paperwork. in such cases, we utilize the IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
  • 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
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. 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. It has dedicated unlimited computational power. It has a good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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)
Scenarios where IBM Cloud Servers are well suited: 1. When you need a backend server with database to handle many simultaneous users online. 2. When you need robust solution with high quality support. 3. When you need server based in many different locations around the world Scenarios where IBM Cloud Servers are less appropriate: 1. When you need a corporate server with low number of users. 2. When you would not need high quality support. 3. Relatively small budget.
November 03, 2021

IBM CLOUD VPC Review

Sai karthik Satyavarapu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for a few clients, not for all the clients for implementation of the cloud.
  • 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.
Migration of applications is easy. It can be used for smaller organizations for handling a big customer base. Companies might face challenges due to some missing features like site-site VPN and others, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to host our organization's internal systems and applications. Most of our internal tools used by our development team are deployed and running on the [IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers]. Due to various restrictions and limitations with Cloud alternatives, we have to host these applications in-house, and IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers fit our needs.
  • 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.
Overall, a very good [offer] if you need a server, [especially for] the [deployment], run systems that would have [a] high amount of concurrent users, and/or if you have specific location needs around the world. However, if you do not have these [kinds] of high load/performance needs, perhaps it [would] be more cost-effective to look for other options, such as IBM Cloud Virtual Servers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers is well suited when single-tenant and dedicated cloud servers are needed. Less appropriate for small organization with no enough skills to manage the infrastructure.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Our company uses Cloud Metal Servers by IBM to host client websites. It can stream lengthy videos. Also, it is extremely secure and is cross-platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Well suited for users having a sustained load for a long period or for users having very customized machine types with all the flexibility that cloud computing can provide.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is used as a development environment. We are working on learning IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Pak for Automation. The environment is intended to be used for customer demos with our products.
  • 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.
We were planning on hosting an IBM Cloud Pak for Automation environment for a customer. IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides a quick way to deploy and upgrade a full IBM Cloud Pak for Automation.

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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The IBM VPC was used to increase render farm capacity during peak production times. Cost and data security were the most important features we evaluated, especially compared to other players like Amazon AWS and Google Cloud.
  • Price
  • Latency
  • Features
  • User interface
  • Documentation
IBM VPC is a good alternative to Amazon AWS and Google Cloud due to the competitive pricing. However, we've found the lack of some security features (for example, firewall on the VPC Classic) to be a security problem for most users.
December 09, 2020

IBM VPC Review by Vertex

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud [Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] as a vehicle to get Virtualized Power System Access, and direct services like cognitive watson, and surge virtual computing for application development. We use this as a way to develop incubative initiatives in a separate cloud.
  • PowerSystems Virtualization
  • VPC Based Computing - Windows & Linux Infrastructure
  • IBM Watson Cognitive Services
  • Availability - several outages in the past year, need to increase reliability
  • New product offerings - continually add innovative
  • License portability with microsoft.. getting MVLP agreements onboard
[IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)] is suited toward incubative development where you have a cross between traditional infrastructure & native services that benefit with blending. There is an easy ramp up for deploying services vs aws
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
I think as a commodity provider, IBM's offering is just fine, nothing too great or bad about it. It's ideal for scenarios where a company doesn't want to offload specific services to IaaS because of the upgrade or support issues. It is low maintenance if you have solid devOps to set up the machines. I don't think it's appropriate for businesses that want to utilize IaaS as a Management solution.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We recently started using IBM Cloud VPC to host k8s clusters for various teams. These clusters are mostly used for CI workloads, i.e. short-lived pods that do builds and run tests.
  • Easy to deploy k8s clusters of various versions.
  • Predictable pricing
  • RHEL8/CentOS8 not available.
  • No file storage, only block.
  • Unable to add UBM bare metals to VPC networks.
IBM Cloud VPC is useful when using other offerings from IBM Cloud to closely integrate them. It has feature parity with other cloud vendors while maintaining competitive pricing combined with a vast infrastructure and stability.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We currently use it to demonstrate the characteristics of the service, so that our partners are able to offer it to their customers.
  • One of the most complete clouds on the market.
  • OpenStack services are very interesting.
  • Use of users and permissions is very hard.
  • Intuitively budget tools.
Very good option for customers using SaaS, IaaS and PaaS.
Krishn Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud VPC to host our SP application for data collection, and to be the backend for a couple of web apps. It is being used across the whole organization. We are resolving the document collaboration and management system issues that we had, and this helps our company because it provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for meeting our company's needs for speed, cost, and reliability. IBM Cloud VPC is versatile enough that it meets needs across several different use cases.
  • Agile to scale.
  • Secure and protected.
  • Set-up of specific user rights.
  • VPC server instance change.
IBM VPC is well suited to secure and scale our environment for hosting an application on cloud-based VPC and its very cost-efficient for our uses. It may be less appropriate for sharing environments and power-based instances.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Bare Metal Servers are extraordinary while running calculated workloads. Let's say for example, that your business caters 1 million users a month and you need 8 servers to handle the load. When you have a clear cut requirement like this, a business can move from Virtual Cloud servers to Bare Metal servers and this will help them push out extra performance and even reduce the cloud costs by more than half. It is not well suited when you have to provision extra servers because of the temporary surge in traffic or resources.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud VPC to implement data collection and to be the backend for a couple web apps. This helps our company because it provides an efficient and cost effective solution to meeting our company needs for speed, cost, and reliability. IBM Cloud VPC is versatile enough that it meets needs across several different use cases.
  • Reliable
  • Cost effective
  • Setup of specific user rights and roles could have been bucketed better instead of having to assign rights in multiple areas.
  • More straightforward access to assigning static IP and SSL to specific VPC.
It has met all the needs I have wanted from it so far outside of the fumbling through initial rights and user role setup so I could complete initial setup.
November 12, 2019

Bare Metal Servers Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bare Metal Server helps me to do heavy computational tasks easily. It's very useful for an AI engineer like me who needs lots of CPU and GPU power to train and test AI models. I have purchased bare metal with two Nvidia V100 GPU and it works like a charm for my most implementations of Neural Networks and ML models. I also use it as a platform to deploy my docker containers. I love working on Bare Metal. However, I have faced an issue with it when one of my servers got corrupted and I lost all my data. Apart from it, everything about it is unmatched in today's market.
  • Handling heavy computational tasks.
  • Training and testing complicated and Heavy Duty Artificial Intelligence Models and algorithms.
  • Deploying Docker and other microservices.
  • Acting as always-on server and cloud PC for files and folders.
  • Stability and data protection.
  • More choices of OS for VM server.
  • Better cost management.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are very well suited for training and testing AI models and heavy computational models. The smoothness and set-up of the Bare Metal server are unmatched. However, it is not much suited for long-time data storage and backend application deployment. It is prone to disk corruption and can cause data loss.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using Bare Metal Servers to build a unique system for people disabilities and training purposes. It addresses the problems of having to pay a lot of upfront costs and reduces the downtime trying to do maintenance and network maintenance as its all done by IBM cloud bare metal. I also feel that it resolves a lot of issues in developing systems as if something doesn't work then I reformat or re-mirror the system.
  • Quick set-up.
  • Security.
  • Awesome sales and support.
  • More Canadian datacenters.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are good all around for startups to the most advanced users and companies.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use this as a compute server and a build server for deployments and dev work. It is being used by several different groups at a single client for a lot of backend management and monthly/quarterly intensive compute jobs. It addresses the business issue that Cloud Foundry or virtual boxes do not have enough CPU power as well as a dedicated place for specific tasks.
  • Very good for compute
  • Reliable because it is always up and not shared
  • Easy to set up and get running
  • Very slow to provision
  • Understanding billing is tough and takes a month to really see what your usage is
  • Limited compute options.
  • Very good for batch processing.
  • Very good for CPU intensive jobs.
  • Good for reliable always up and not having to share resources.
  • On the down side, it is less appropriate for scenarios where you need on demand compute.
  • If budget is an issue, it is quite expensive.
  • Not great if you need resources quickly.
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