From my personal experience I chose virtual servers over bare metal servers
I used it throughout everything I do for hosting. It addresses all my hosting problems for personal hosting and client hosting.
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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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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
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Competitors
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Mobile 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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December 17, 2021
Great infrastructure for monthly dev
Being used as our primary production for our Web Apps, Internal Facing Apps, and our database warehouse.
- Quick Deployment
- Wide global footprint
- Many auxiliary services beyond servers
- Downtime!
- Limited availability in certain markets
- Some outdated documentation
41.25%
4.1
- Per server costs are down
- Accessibility is up
- Downtime has increased
Not all applications make sense in cloud, which is why it is nice to have access to bare metal solutions as well as cloud based solutions. We achieve operational efficiency by keeping our 24hr / 365 day workloads and compute needs on bare metal
It is on par with other solutions when comparing servers of equal size.
The servers themselves are a commodity product. Dell is Dell, HP is HP. When comparing vendors for this service, you are looking at price, SLA, and easy of use for support.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
- IBM Cloud Internet Services
Being able to have the same services on the same vendor allows for a smoother integration and some cost efficiencies. However this adds some risk with DR and emergency planning.
For the most part, implementation of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers went smoothly, however we learned that the location you select will greatly impact the quality of service and availability. Several data center locations are being decommissioned (they are older / legacy from previous acquisitions) and others are simply at capacity. Strongly suggest confirming with their technical folks regarding capacity planning before starting a migration or implementation.
No
Basic (free)
We have technical staff in house which are intimately familiar and comfortable with cloud and remote environments. Therefore the basic level is almost always enough for us. The biggest downfall to the basic level is the mean time to respond. Ideally all tickets should be triaged based on severity, not by how much is paid to IBM.
We were migrating from one type of high availability firewall to a newer more capable kind. Doing so traditionally would involved either downtime or having our environment exposed with no firewall protection. The IBM Support team was able to closely coordinate times (not a 9-5 window) and help us generate a process so that when the new firewalls spun up traffic was blocked by default.
- IBM Cloud Docs
- Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
- IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
Ehh. Because of the sheer breath of services, the documentation was usually only mildly helpful and many times out of date. We've had the most success using live chat or calling in.
No
- Price
When buying bare metal its all about price and SLA
It wouldn't change. Bare metal is a simple procurement process.
No. Found it unnecessary most of time since reboots and KVM is self service.
April 08, 2020
A great start by IBM as they dip their toe into the Cloud marketplace - keep an eye on this one as it develops.
IBM VPC is being used currently as a proof of concept and a training platform - our business relies on enabling other companies to achieve their own technology goals, and with cloud migrations currently big business, we make it ours to be aware of the current state of cloud provider offerings. IBM is a vital part of this. Thus through prototyping potential solutions and building on our own cloud platform knowledge, we are in a better position to help clients to make the right purchasing decisions for their business, and to help them to implement it.
- Powerful
- Easy to get started
- Multiple regions
- Clearly a "me too" offering
- Small range of offerings compared to other providers
- Limited range of regions
58.75%
5.9
- It has made us aware of other offerings
- Gives us a wider range of products
- Helps people make value based judgements on cloud provision
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google Compute Engine, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Azure Virtual Machines
It does a subset of what the bigger players such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google already do - it's clearly being actively developed but currently lags some way behind them in terms of offerings and capabilities. I feel it's worth watching as I'm sure in a years time it will be radically bigger and better featured than it is now.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
This was really an evaluation to see how IBM Cloud works so we can better support our clients - to their credit, the offering works exactly as you would expect it, with the exception that you can't perform custom routing between subnets. If this is an absolute requirement then (at the time of writing) you'll need to go to another cloud provider.
I was very impressed by getting IBM Cloud's VPC offering up and running - I endeavour to do everything through CLI tools where available as this lends itself to future automation, and is easier to document then endless GUI screenshots. I found IBM's documentation easy to navigate (though confess I found all the pieces I needed through Google than via IBM Cloud's own documentation search), and I was able to go from zero knowledge to achieving what I needed within a couple of hours.
No
Basic (free)
We are a professional services provider and an IBM Partner, so it's important for us to develop our own capability with every technology we resell and offer services around. We enjoy working with IBM, but it is important to us to be able to make a valuable contribution to IBM when we recommend or resell their products to our clients, and so being able to work independently is vital to us. However some account issues mean we did lean on IBM Cloud's free support tier, which was easy to access, responsive, and very effective. Based on this support experience I'd have no problem recommending IBM Cloud support to clients.
Without IBM Cloud's support, we would never even have gotten our proof of concept off the ground as for reasons unknown, our account wouldn't validate (in spite of being populated with all our details correctly). IBM Cloud support responded very rapidly and got us over the hurdle, meaning we were up and running quickly and able to complete our proof of concept within a day.
- Central Documentation and Learning Hub
- IBM Cloud Docs
- Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
- Access to IBM and Developer communities through Stack Overflow or GitHub
- Chat with Watson
Yes - I wanted to learn how to modify routing tables within VPC's, especially for the purpose of setting up a virtual infrastructure with a "bring your own" firewall on the edge as many customers are now favouring. Sadly at the present time, although you can customise the routing table, editing the default route is not possible. Whilst this meant we were unable to bring in a third party firewall appliance, this limitation was clearly documented meaning that we did not waste time trying to implement something that wasn't going to work. I really appreciate IBM Cloud's level of documentation, and their transparency - this is vital in my opinion and we could have wasted a lot of time if not for this.
April 08, 2020
A very specific solution
We used it to create a high-availability cluster
- Gives you the opportunity to use your own software licensing.
- You can add features easily, growing as you need.
- You forget about the physical management of the server.
- The way to connect to the private network could be improved.
- Portal availability could be improved as well.
- A better way to manage notifications could be found.
74.28571428571429%
7.4
- We had no downtime during the period the project was alive.
- Support tickets were resolved fast, keeping productivity up.
A bare metal server gives you more control over your environment.
In my experience, the implementation on a Bare-Metal Server is really fast because is often the case that IBM Cloud (Softlayer) already has the server on site. The only thing they do is they load the OS, modify the IP, change the uEFI credentials, and that's it; but of course all of that is already automated. In my case I prefer to load the OS myself so my servers are ready to use in minutes (from the moment I order one to the moment I get to install the OS).
No
Basic (free)
We only need basic support as we are a IT firm, we have experts in different fields and the need for support is unusual. We do however need support when there is a hardware failure (if a disk in an array fails, if one of the Power supplies fails, etc.)
We had a disk failure in a RAID array and the tech in site was aware of the problem and he already had the new disk on site by the time we contacted support. We proceeded to select a time to make the change without any issue.
April 07, 2020
Cost effective with a good user-experience
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.
67.5%
6.8
- The scalability of the environment has had a positive impact.
- It is very cost efficient.
IBM Cloud VPC is easier to use and a more integrated solution when compared to the other products. I could not complete the test on the other platforms due to the complexity and a lack of proper help in configuring the solution. For me, IBM was the best solution to proceed with, and also was cheaper.
Implementation went well and managing cloud resources were done as expected. It takes time as expected but depend on your environment.
No
Advanced
Advanced support has majorly all the required services so its helpful in running business.
Sometime need support in configuration of environment. they helped us to complete the configuration we were trying to accomplish.
- Contributing to the IBM Developer community
- IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
Yes we have dropped few questions on IBM developer community and received their response in very short time that was very helpful.