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August 25, 2020
We use our IBM Bare Metal Servers for most of our server infrastructure needs, either in-house services, or hosted services for customers, and also prototypes and demos. We develop services for contact centers, so it's important to be able to build a very specific feature and prototype it quickly, mirroring as closely as possible the customer's environment, whether they run Bare Metal, VMs or containers. With our IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers we have been able to provide a solution efficiently.
- Strong reliability
- Availability of servers and capacities.
- Network capacity and pricing.
- Better hardware options for longer terms.
- Better pricing for longer terms.
- Better upgrade incentives to move to newer hardware.
As we run contact center applications, it is very important to have a known, dedicated, and dependable server and network capacity. And if we need more or less, it is quick enough (for our projects) to change things. And the flexibility to run things on VM or Bare-metal allows us to host anything we need, which is hardly the case with cloud solutions such as AWS. Sometimes a customer would need a specific SD-WAN solution or a specific security software with specific networking or storage needs, and that is just not possible on AWS or similar services.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We haven't really used much of the other IBM Cloud products yet, we like to manage all we can ourselves. But it's good to know we can have all that portfolio any time we need. Coming from the Softlayer days, this has given me the confidence that we are hosting our services with a strong provider.
November 07, 2020
We use our IBM Bare Metal Servers for most of our production hosting needs. We develop and manage a number of content portals that generate substantial traffic, so it's important to be able to build a solid infrastructure that handles traffic spike. With our IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, we have been able to record sustained growth for many 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.
Servers have run at low utilization for years and are fast and reliable. Our sites serve millions of content articles with no issues.
At present, we are not using other services from IBM.
September 06, 2020
We use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to publish our software products and also to support our clients that don't own cloud infrastructure or don't want to have our products in their cloud, clients that just want the service running. We found that IBM Cloud is our best option to work with. We are a small software business, with fewer than 5 employees and we just reached five years of experience with IBM Cloud. 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.
- 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
Sometimes our products need to load a lot of data, sometimes daily, sometimes monthly, and with that data, we need to perform many calculations, over and over. So far we have no complaints about it. We build our Bare Metal Server with much RAM and we believe that it has the power to perform what we need.
We feel organized.
September 04, 2020
It's being used to process compute-heavy genetic infrastructure of microbes we research. It solves the unreliability issues of our portal.
- 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
Literally Excellent. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are no match for service providers and no other options can compete with them. Our experience was very good. For the price, we were able to make remarkable achievements in processing our medical research.
- IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
It made it possible to get targets achieved faster and guaranteed success in computation within timeline.
August 31, 2020
We use several bare metal servers to support business operations, including sales (multiple web sites), management (back end intranet system), and marketing (newsletters). Our operation is using a proprietary system to manage our inventory, production and sales all together. This system is hosted online as we have staff in multiple locations, including programmers and office staff. We are able to keep all of our data online with real-time updates from the programmers and live updates to our customers on the production status.
- Multiple locations for distributed computing allowing faster download speeds for our customers and staff alike
- Full service of domain registrations, SSL purchases, server rental, DNS servers, etc. This allows us to keep all of our necessary related services within a single console and single billing system.
- Good backup system with off-site backup servers and easy disaster recovery
- New console is confusing and hard to navigate. Integration of the "classic interface" is sometimes redundant and doesn't function well. This is especially apparent in the trouble ticket section where legacy trouble tickets are not found.
- Hardware support is almost non-existent unless paying a very high monthly fee. The "free" support that comes with renting a server (or servers) for up to $2,000/mo is laughable at best. Our server was down and no response from tech support for over 24 hours and no way to escalate the ticket as we were not "premium" subscribers.
- Connecting to KVM for remote access is only possible over an SSL VPN connection, which requires the use of Internet Explorer which is soon to be removed and is currently only accessible by search. A newer, updated system needs to be put in place to gain remote access.
As our operation is a single company with multiple websites, we do not really have Big Data applications. Our databases rarely exceed 6-10 million records for any particular table. We do not use media and/or streaming applications.
We are not using other services of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.
August 25, 2020
We use IBM Bare Metal servers for hosting web applications. Their performance is great, and their support is even better. I really appreciate all of the communication, updates, and flexibility that IBM offers. The scalability is easy and all of the services are very cost-effective. No more AWS! IBM is the best!
- Scalability
- Cost effective
- Performance
- Security
- Needed to work with a sales rep to get exactly what I needed.
- Had to move my server after one year since they were shutting down a data center (they gave 9 months notice though).
- Bandwidth is limited too much in my opinion.
My servers have run at 3-5% utilization for 8+ years. IBM servers are fast and reliable. No issues running my workloads.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
I love the IBM servers, Virtual and Bare metal. An excellent option as it is secure, reliable, and cost-effective.
November 19, 2020
I used it throughout everything I do for hosting. It addresses all my hosting problems for personal hosting and client hosting.
- 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
I primarily used bare metal servers to run message boards at the time. I feel like the traffic was too much load for one server and the lack of load balancing made me fail a lot with my experience.
I would like to use more services but the problem is the lack of knowledge of the services. I think IBM should be more informative on their Youtube channel IBM Cloud so I can be educated more. Providing examples would be very fun to watch because there is so much to learn with all the services you offer but it's almost like you position everyone to just know about them. I need a spot to learn more about them and I personally use YouTube a lot for learning. But I do not think IBM is using it very well for me and other users to learn more.
September 04, 2020
We have utilized IBM Cloud Virtual and Bare Metal Servers to help our business scale and grow over the past 6 years. Service has been good, pricing has been fair, and we have peace of mind by working with a top-shelf vendor like IBM. I would recommend IBM Cloud to any small business looking to grow as we did.
- 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.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We utilize virtual servers for our web hosting and development environments but we use Bare Metal Servers for our production database server.
September 03, 2020
We are using it as our high performing servers to train models for AI projects. We get to utilize servers fully, providing power instead of sharing with others.
- 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.
Having IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers has been awesome for training data for financials, biometrics, etc.
It helped greatly to train models.
December 25, 2020
[IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers] is currently being used across the whole organization for delivery of all of our products across a standard platform both within the continental United States and Europe and Asia. It allows for performances to be met at a generally cost-effective price point so we can deliver our products consistently, continuously, and stably.
- 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.
Data intensive applications run very well. These machines a "built" for this kind of load. Word of advice, don't skimp on the network cards, nor the dual-bonding, in the event of streaming, as the 1GB tends to be not enough to handle what the rest of a high-performant box can load.
This is usually a good thing, but I have had a mixed bag. The public cloud does not always mesh well with the private cloud and there is a decent amount of configuration required before both can interconnect. As it usually follows, added complexity has caused us issues with traceability and outages.
November 09, 2020
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
We run Elasticsearch using these machines, and it performs great. We have zero complaints with the performance of the machines in regard to being able to handle large loads of client and end-user data. The security of the IBM Cloud allows us to enhance our datasets with the mindfulness of knowing that our data is secure.
October 20, 2020
We use it as development and testing platform. It turned out that the stability is top notch. We got 100% uptime during last 4 years, so we highly consider it as our production platform too. The platform is no longer supported since it has been discontinued and considered as legacy service, but we still use it by our own risk since the platform is really stable & reliable.
- 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.
We're making an AFTM/ACDM (Air Traffic Flow Management/Airport Collaborative Decision Making) system based on IoT and real data processing. We process aircraft data in milliseconds resolution, that about 500 aircraft per second with up to 50 parameters per aircraft. The Bare Metal we use is the benchmark how far our system can be pushed to process air traffic in a real-time. It became the minimum specs for our system.
VMware as the hypervisor, all others are open source products. We use all Debian for our VM.
October 19, 2020
IBM Cloud Bare Metal help us in R&D department. We use it for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. We have access to high quality servers with very good performances. We run very intensive tasks and the servers are always powerful. We save a lot of time running this task on big servers in Cloud.
- Performance.
- Large offers choice.
- Prices.
- 100 Mbps default uplink.
- Limited bandwidth.
- Price for better network connectivity.
We run Machine Learning on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. It’s a perfect choice for intensive applications. The hardware is very powerful and can save a lot of time running this tasks in Cloud. We store a lot of data for run our machine learning and servers are adapted to store good amount of data.
Having the possibility to use multiple products offered by the same provider is very important. You reduce the cost of your infrastructure. Using Bare Metal Servers with Cloud Instances and other services at the same place is good for saving time, saving money and constantly know what is deployed for your organization.
September 11, 2020
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)
I used IBM Cloud Metal servers for 12 years (from the times it was Softlayer). I used it for intensive applications and games with tens of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of users online. I use Microsoft Windows and MSSQL database server with large databases. So far IBM Cloud Metal Servers had proven to provide robust solution.
- IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
I use IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers only.
September 04, 2020
We started using this service around 2012 as a solution to host multiple websites, when SoftLayer was not yet part of IBM. We use this service exclusively for this purpose. This service solves our necessity to host multiple websites on a secure environment. We use 5 bare metal servers for this purpose.
- 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.
We started our journey on this service looking for a professional web hosting service. As time passed, we used one server to host a Kaltura Open server, which transcoded and served video files. And it worked perfectly. The performance in the servers in general was always great.
Other server that had intensive usage was a Database server, that served more than 20 different databases for several websites and it worked perfect, even on heavy load times.
Other server that had intensive usage was a Database server, that served more than 20 different databases for several websites and it worked perfect, even on heavy load times.
August 25, 2020
We are using Bare-Metal Servers to host web applications and REST APIs. We also use them for deployment and staging environments.
- Good customization
- Fast connectivity
- Reliable hardware
- Expensive compared to other providers.
- Lack of included priority support.
- Admin portal is slow and difficult to use.
- Basic support response is extremely slow.
When budget is a priority, I use AWS. When I need raw power and no support, I use IBM.
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.
April 07, 2020
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
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server is successfully used as a production server for Ultimus CPS Solutions for US Counties.
- Fast.
- Reliable.
- They are slightly more expensive than other providers.
All our solutions run perfectly fine on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.
- IBM Secure Gateway
IBM Secure Gateway helps us to protect our environment.
January 13, 2020
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.
We continuously stream a VM on the Bare Metal Servers for our users to game on. The servers are backed by the latest hardware such as the Nvidia V100s to render and stream the application data to the user. We have never experienced any system hang even when we running our weekly maintenance that takes a lot of computing power.
December 05, 2019
We use these servers to host the websites and applications of many of our clients. These servers provide us with the uptime and speed required for usage in many eCommerce and local government websites, in case of failure due to hardware errors or network connectivity their support is top-notch.
- Up-time.
- Support.
- Flexibility.
- Weird SSL VPN Support.
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.
It's fantastic to handle Big data processing and media streaming. It has helped me to reduce lots of time is processing huge amounts of data and generating analytical reports out of it. I have used media streaming on it once and did the job perfectly. I am impressed with the Bare Metal Server.
November 11, 2019
We are currently looking at using bare-metal servers to use it to host ESXi and KVM. I am part of education services, we are looking at using this to handle situations where we need more servers and our internal servers that are in use kind of use it as an overflow or burst-in.
- Choice of different server flavors.
- Ease of set-up.
- Global datacenters.
- IPMI controls.
- The duration of set-up time could be improved.
- More control over VLAN or layer 2 control over private networks between my servers. Right now it's hard to manage or request and expensive.
- Portal UI.
November 08, 2019
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.
We are using it for Windows Server setups so our data-intensive applications can be worked on easier and via VPN connections.
December 03, 2019
We are trying it out to see how we like it. We are using it mainly to deploy docker containers on bare metal servers. We are currently at a host that seems to have off and on reliability, and we wanted to give someone else a try with our business.
- More options for machines configurations.
- More robust machines.
- More services.
- Better customization of bare metal servers.
- The entire interface, it can be slow and confusing.
- They could drop their prices more which would attract more startups.
- Sometimes the pricing can be confusing; that could be a LOT clearer.
- Navigation can be improved greatly.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
What is IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers?
IBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly and monthly options, on-demand, around the globe—with a complete selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Customize RAM and SSDs to meet a variety of workload requirements with 11M+ configurations to choose from for total control up and down the stack.
Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize
with single to quad processing solutions.
On demand
Provision servers in IBM Cloud data centers around the world in two to
four hours. If you need to be online in minutes or only need limited
resources, select an hourly bare metal server.
Powerful
Available options from single processor 4-core architectures to
quad-processor 12-core architectures and up to 3TB RAM. Local storage
ranges from 800 GB to 1.2 TB SSDs and up to 36 drivers per server.
SAP integration
Shift SAP environments from on-premise to the fully powered IBM Cloud. SAP HANA 4-socket and
8-socket bare metal servers are SAP certified for production S/4 HANA
workloads.
GPU integration
Provision bare metal servers with cutting-edge NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to handle the most
complex compute-intensive workloads for high performance acceleration of scientific computation,
data analytics, AI, machine learning and professional-grade virtualized graphics.
Categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Integrations
CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Odin Virtuozzo, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud, McAfee Total Protection, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, Veeam Backup & Replication, FreeBSD, NetApp ONTAP Select, CloudLinux, Debian, Microsoft, Red Hat, Vyatta Virtual Router Appliance, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, APF Software Firewall, McAfee Anti-Virus, McAfee Host Intrustion Protection, Microsoft Windows Firewall, Basho Riak, IBM Cloud Analytics, Fantastico, RVSkin, Softaculous, Plesk - ONYX, R1 Soft Server Backup Manager Enterprise, OSNEXUS QuantaStor
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Competitors
Alibaba ECS Bare Metal Servers, Oracle Bare Metal Servers, Rackspace Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?Optional
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | starting at $0.51 | per hour |
| IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | starting at $324.00 | per month |
IBM Bare Metal Servers provide performance, flexibility, on-demand provisioning, and control. Choose between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or customize with single to quad processing solutions that range from 4 to 72 cores. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts so you can build the best solution for your workloads. Order a monthly bare metal server built to spec, and we’ll have it to you in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. Order an hourly bare metal server, and we’ll have it ready for you in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Support Options
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|---|---|---|
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| Video Tutorials / Webinar |
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application: | Mobile Web |