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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- 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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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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- 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
March 01, 2023
If you are dissatisfied with the cloud server service you are currently using, please try it.
- 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
February 09, 2023
This IBM System is an Effective Cloud Virtualization Solution with easy tools to manipulate.
- Creating real time data results.
- Automation of Cloud services.
- Networking.
- Access permission management.
- Only to set its Cloud tools.
- Handling big data across Cloud service.
- Creating reports from complex project data.
January 31, 2023
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.
December 30, 2022
Ease of use and quick implementation!
- Setup a virtual network
- Allow for public and private subnets
- Security and control
- Login to the console
- Make some wizards
December 30, 2022
Experience the Power of IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud: Secure, Scalable, and Customizable Infrastructure for Your Business
- Security
- Productivity
- Ease of use
- 2FA via Hardware Security Keys (e.g. Yubikey)
December 20, 2022
IBM server in shell
- 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
December 16, 2022
IBM Cloud VPC - Review
- cost-effective
- easy migration
- highly secure
- Limited versions of OS available
- Less documentation available
- Not all Databases are available
November 29, 2022
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
November 11, 2022
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.
November 01, 2022
IBM cloud review
- SSH
- No down time until now
- Cost efficiency
- Low tutorial on internet
- Would be very helpful if docs include video demo as well.
October 28, 2022
IBM Bare Metal
- Security
- Performance
- Availability
- User Friendliness
- Cost
October 27, 2022
Good choice for GPU power platform
- It is easy to set up.
- Good tech support.
- Network is fast.
- The management UI could be easier to operate.
- For GPU price, it is better to have more options.
February 24, 2022
Heavy metal
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- easy to deploy new computer
- storage
- pricing is easy to understand
- web portal works great
- network setup
December 17, 2021
Great infrastructure for monthly dev
- Quick Deployment
- Wide global footprint
- Many auxiliary services beyond servers
- Downtime!
- Limited availability in certain markets
- Some outdated documentation
December 01, 2021
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
December 01, 2021
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
- Dedicated memory and disk.
- Easy to deploy.
- Configure the hardware according to your specs.
- BIOS/Firmware upgrades can take longer than expected.
- Rebooting could be faster.
November 29, 2021
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.
November 19, 2021
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)
November 19, 2021
IBM Cloud review by communicAVIA
- 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.
November 16, 2021
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Excellent Network layer
- Superior Tech Support
- Reasonable Pricing
- VPN Connectivity is a bit complicated
- Documentation needs to be improved
- Need to Improve resource availability in all regions
November 13, 2021
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.
November 03, 2021
IBM CLOUD VPC Review
- 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.