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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC
Formerly IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Overview

What is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC?

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

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Recent Reviews

So/so? Still testing

8 out of 10
December 30, 2022
Incentivized
We originally was using the servers for hosting docker containers and several VDI’s with no complaints. The speed and setup was amazing …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (81)
    8.3
    83%
  • Monitoring tools (84)
    8.3
    83%
  • Pre-defined machine images (78)
    8.3
    83%
  • Operating system support (84)
    8.2
    82%

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Pricing

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)

starting at $0.22

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per hour

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)

starting at $149.00

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per month

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)

starting at $0.038

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per hour

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://cloud.ibm.com/vpc…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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

8.3
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC?

IBM Cloud® Virtual Server for VPC offers fast-provisioning compute capacity—also known as virtual machines—with high network speeds and secure, software-defined networking resources available on the IBM Cloud. Built on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and featuring 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® processors, this developer-friendly infrastructure helps drive modern workloads faster and easier with pre-set instance profiles, rapid deployment and private network control in an agile public cloud environment. Choose multi-tenant or dedicated, add GPUs, and it is pay-as-you-use by the hour.

IBM Cloud virtual server environments deliver cloud-native solutions that work across public, private and hybrid deployments. Boasting cost-savings, control, and visibility that is needed with a variety of flexible provisioning and pricing options, including single and multi-tenant environments, hourly and monthly pricing, reserved capacity terms and spot billing. Its elastic infrastructure, globally distributed data centers and premium services aim to bring data to life no matter where it resides.

Smart provisioning
Customize with a variety of virtual server instances and billing options. Rapidly scale up or down, on-demand. Stay open with no vendor lock-ins, and reply on complete integration with new and traditional architectures.

Highly distributed
Access a globally distributed network of modern data centers with built in high-availability and security, inbound public bandwidth and high-speed private network options, public and private network ports, fast data ingest offerings, geographically redundant DNS, and dual-stack IP capabilities.

Advanced essentials
Used to build blended hybrid environments with more predictability and confidence, and to create new solutions that interact with existing infrastructure and applications. A variety of network choices are available with AI solutions designed to put data to work.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC 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

Additional Features

  • Supported: Remote management
  • Supported: Virtual GPU support
  • Supported: Suspend billing
  • Supported: Flexible instance options
  • Supported: Spot pricing
  • Supported: Placement groups for high-availability

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Integrations

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google Compute Engine, and Azure Virtual Machines are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC.

Reviewers rate Security controls highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Rebecca Scott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Flexible Cloud configuration management tool and the features are powerful and tje Authentication option and data security level is impressive. Isolation of network segments and the functionality on multiple data storage management the effective ability on data access control, this IBM system provides the most helpful capabilities and the load balancing features are incredible.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
There are instances where there may be hidden corrupt issues in a users machine. With the virtual workaround we can help to identify the issue by isolating the item. This allows the user to continue working while doing the testing and review process.
February 06, 2024

Reliable with simple APIs

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are being used as a pilot project to extend our data center used by researchers. In other words, extra jobs that cannot be fulfilled by our data center will be offloaded to IBM VSI. Currently it is being used by one department but it will be used by the entire university once the solution is stable and goes into production.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is our main server that our company uses to provide services to our libraries. It is being used as a website, email server, database, and mobile app server. The email serving part is unique to cloud servers. Most other major cloud providers (Google, AWS) don't allow creating email servers on their virtual servers. This is a key issue for us since we send email to library patrons to help them keep track their library circulations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host different web-based systems. It is used across the whole organization and we deploy solutions for customers/third parties on it. We mostly use virtual servers and also utilize some of the IBM Watson services.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We mainly rely on IBM Cloud Virtual Services as a webs server and DNS for our client's websites, as well as our own, main company website. We also rely heavily on the Virtual Server for testing new features and finding bugs before deployment.
Jeffrey Lange | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are being used by me as a freelance developer hosting personal projects as well as clients. It solves my hosting situation. When you are a developer, like myself, it's easy to create a hosting environment and have it ready to deploy when needed.
February 21, 2023

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud virtual servers for software development tasks, both during development and production. They are great for development time due to their fast spin up times and the isolation they can offer (so that they don't mess up production). They are also great in production because they are highly scalable and have great network performance.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to address several business problems that we face, such as the need for scalable computing resources, the requirement for secure data storage and access, and even the demand for high-performance computing. This service provides us with an easy-to-use platform for creating and managing virtual servers, which can be customized to meet the specific needs of our business. The main reason I use the Cloud Virtual Servers is that it helps me with the development and deployment of new applications, as well as the management of existing ones. I also use it to create virtual servers that can host our applications, providing us with the resources we need to meet the high demands of our customers and partnered Corporations.
February 09, 2023

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It has hosted websites, databases, and applications, as well as development and testing environments, big data and analytics, and other applications. It was delivering on-demand adaptable and scalable computing resources, lowering capital expenditures for hardware and infrastructure, enhancing disaster recovery and business continuity, and offloading the burden of server maintenance and management to dependable service.
December 30, 2022

So/so? Still testing

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We originally was using the servers for hosting docker containers and several VDI’s with no complaints. The speed and setup was amazing and a breeze. It’s now got to the point where I now use IBM servers to host my personal projects with no problems. I was even able to setup a DNS Adblock using one of the servers and now have my (personal) network directing the queries through there first with more privacy.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At my organization, we use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to address a variety of business problems. The product is very versatile and can be used for a wide range of use cases. We have used it to create virtual servers for our development and testing environments, to create a virtual private cloud for our organization, and to create a disaster recovery environment. The product is very easy to use and has a wide range of features that make it a great fit for our needs.
Jonathan Crook | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company made a decision to deploy a key part of our technology stack by making use of the IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. Our core requirement was to make use of two IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host our functionality for social media and news collection and analysis. This functionality is offered as part our wider application and services a variety of commercial clients, to provide them with location specific and high relevance information concerning certain set subjects. We required the highest levels of availability and reliability from the IBM Virtual Cloud Servers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Virtual Server is being used by different development teams in our organization for creating, managing, and scaling the virtual servers as per the demand and requirement for different software and applications. We have development, UAT, and Production servers for multiple and changing requirements and need.
Syed Shahrukh Hassan Rizvi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers enable our company to quickly and easily create and manage virtual servers in the cloud. We can use them to run our applications, test new software, and scale our infrastructure as needed. The scope of our use case is to create and manage virtual servers, and this product helps us do that. The business problems addressed by IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are the time and cost to provision and manage cloud servers. This product's ability to quickly and easily create new virtual servers reduces the amount of time it takes to get our applications up and running. And the ability to manage servers from a single console helps reduce the cost of managing our infrastructure. Overall, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers help us save time and money, which enables us to focus on our core business.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to provide testing and production VMs for teams within our software organization. Our main use case is the need for easy to deploy servers that have good availability and that are also easy for our DevOps team to configure to suit various testing and automated testing needs.
Amit Kumar Verma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are in Deep Tech space ( or DeepLearning ). We use AI to create voice that will almost sound like human. So mostly, We use IBM's Virtual GPU servers for training and evaluating our deep-learning models.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host and deploy our project for instances. There was an auto scaling issue in our organization, but IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is good at that, so we don't need to worry much about that. We store our databases as well to make them more scalable and secure them on the server.
Lavish Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to deploy and host our code for running our instances. The auto-scaling issue was our major focus problem and IBM cloud virtual servers handled this ease in our organization. We use it for team-specific projects to deploy, We store our database as well to make them more scalable and secure on the server.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Flexible and scalable compute is a cornerstone of the cloud revolution. IBM Cloud Virtual Servers allows us to spin up any number of virtual machines of varying configurations to support our system's workload. The ability to scale up on demand allows us to support [our] user base throughout changes.
Chetan Chandrapal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using IBM virtual cloud server for the deployment of our web application over a high-speed and secured cloud environment. I like it most because they provide virtualized dedicated server. They are delivering the highest Uptime with great performance. Compute work of a large company can be performed with [these] virtual servers.
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