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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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- 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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September 21, 2021
IBM Cloud VPC review
- [It] is a way to implement isolation.
- Allows to properly extend local ip scope.
- Allows to have more control over network.
- A customer I follow [has] faced problems [creating] a VPC VPN site to site. Not sure if it has been solved yet. This could have direct help from IBM because it is important to have customers onboard.
September 16, 2021
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
August 24, 2021
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Review
- 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.
July 07, 2021
check My IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Review
- secure
- good and High performance
- good technical support
- can Supports VPC
- Monitoring issue
- Pricing issue
- expensive Support
June 11, 2021
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.
May 17, 2021
Offers functions as advertised
- High Security
- Good Performance
- High Scalability
- Monitoring
- The pricing is a bit costlier
- The UI is not user friendly
May 15, 2021
Bare metal glory!
- 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
May 10, 2021
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
January 01, 2021
A good option for deploying cloud services
- Integrations with open-source software
- Reduced administrative burden
- Easy to implement and deploy
- Prepackaged deployments for common use cases, with embedded software and archectitures
- Cost estimation can be difficult to understand
- Expensive
December 26, 2020
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.
- 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.
December 23, 2020
IBM VPC: render farm use case
- Price
- Latency
- Features
- User interface
- Documentation
- Terraform integration with Schematics
- VPC Custom Image Support
- KVM based
- Direct Link Routing to Corporate Networking
- Just add VPC Custom Routes, still needs a ton of work
- L2 broadcast support in the SDN for cluster based synchonization and failover
- API documentation has WAY too many versions still available (and Googlable)
- EIP Internet options are poor (don't exist except through an unscalable LBaaS)
December 22, 2020
IBM Cloud VPC
- Compute
- IPSEC
- Simplicity
- Access Lists
December 15, 2020
A capable, easy-to-use cloud product
- Easy and fast provisioning of resources through UI, API and CLI
- Huge scalability
- Great customer service
- Viewing online invoices and billing data is awful - there are several separate systems that require multiple layers of accounts
- Not all features are available in all regions, such as single-site resiliency in COS
- VPC instance disk drives are awkwardly slow. The boot drive is limited to 50MiBs read/write, even though network is 2GiBs.
December 11, 2020
IBM VPC Gen 2 is good, but not great
- Good number of regions and zones
- Simple security groups
- Fast provisioning
- No support for building custom images with e.g. Hashicorp Packer
- IBM support in general is not great
December 09, 2020
IBM VPC Review by Vertex
- 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
November 09, 2020
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
November 08, 2020
Using IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for 10+ 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.
October 19, 2020
How IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers help us
- Performance.
- Large offers choice.
- Prices.
- 100 Mbps default uplink.
- Limited bandwidth.
- Price for better network connectivity.
September 06, 2020
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Review
- 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
September 05, 2020
IBM dynamic scaling for small growing businesses
- 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.
- 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.
September 04, 2020
King of Bare Metal Servers
- 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
September 03, 2020
IBM Bare Betal is awesome!! Worth getting over cloud.
- 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.