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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
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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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How IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Differs From Its Competitors

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Dedicated Hosts

Through added data security level and the network isolation functionality the overall services quality from IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is productive. Compliance management and the effective data access control features enhances Cloud data accessibility security and the storage management operations …
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IBM Cloud Portfolio

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With tje capabilities of all this IBM Cloud systems protecting business data across Cloud services and secure storage all data sizes on Cloud is very simple process. Servers performance management and easy access …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Dedicated Hosts

Security was and is a high priority in financial services. We need to have complete trust in the IBM service for this. Because our organization is small the auto assign feature was our method of choice. This freed up our staff for transitioning.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

We are only using transient VSI to reduce the cost. While IBM can reclaim the instance at any time, this almost never happens to us. A transient VSI would run for couple of weeks with no problems. It is also way cheaper compared to the on-demand instances. The only issue with IBM transient VSIs is …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reserved Servers

We didn't use reserved capacity as our main focus was allocating instances on the fly. While reserved instances can be low cost, transient instances have even lower costs and that is what we are using to expand the capacity of our data center on-demand while keeping the cost as low as possible.
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Examples of Exceptional Support

There was once instance when all traffic to one virtual server was blocked. The firewall configuration was not well set and the support team troubleshooted the problem with us and walked us through the steps to fix the issue.
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IBM Cloud Support Resource Usage

Central Documentation and Learning Hub IBM Cloud Docs IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
The documentation and Cloud Docs along with the demos and tutorials have helped a lot to get familiar with their new services and troubleshooting some of the issues we faced setting up the environment.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Billing

Since we run transient instances on demand, the hourly rate is very beneficial to us as the instances get created and destroyed based on the available jobs. Thus, a monthly rate does not work for our model and only an hourly rate such as the one provided can work for our use case.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

The transient pricing model is amazingly helpful. It is very helpful to be able to set up simulations for testing and get them running, and then step away for a break or lunch and it was at a very competitive price. As a smaller business, I appreciate when we can spend less if we use less and …
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Implementation Insights

Implementation went relatively smoothly. The implementation is slightly different and placement is either to a dedicated host or dedicated host group. If the placement for the classic virtual server instance is manual, then the VPC+ tools honors the placement and provisions the virtual server in …
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Examples of Exceptional Support

We have not had to use a one-on-one support ticket, per say, but we have used public forums to help troubleshoot common issues. In that sense, other users have been more helpful than customer service technicians or representatives.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Pricing

Lowering costs of course is always a plus for any business, so the pay-by-the-hour model that IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC operates on is very helpful for keeping costs to a minimum and allowing us to divert those funds elsewhere.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Billing

We only pay for the time that we're actually utilizing IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC, meaning that we're not draining money or essentially throwing it out the window when we're paying for time that we're not using the product. The pay-by-the-hour model is very helpful for keeping costs to a …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

Before I was spending a lot more with hosting on dedicated servers before switching to virtual servers. I love the pricing. It's really easy to budget for my hosting needs. I love having hourly and monthly usage and options. The hourly is great for deploying projects in development modes that do …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Pricing

ROI is an extremely important factor with cloud computing. It's important to identify the right service for your products. Being able to add or remove services based on the server's needs makes it more cost efficient for any organization. Since I do pay-as-you-go services it's very beneficial to …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Billing

As mentioned in my earlier comment, it's important to use the hourly flexibility to your advantage. Use resources when they are needed and reduce them when they are not. If you run a business that is more used during the winter time, you can reduce your server resources to save money throughout …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

Our organization used to have a traditional dedicated server but the costs of running a server for the workplace reduced drastically once we started utilizing the IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. Every minute cost that you can reduce for your business by buying new Investment is always the smarter plan …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

Transient pricing, in general, was advantageous for us when need to run flexible workloads on spare capacity since it provides a cost-effective approach to leverage spare capacity in the cloud. This can help us save money and decrease waste while still providing the computer resources our …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Dedicated Hosts

We improved our performance and dependability by using dedicated hosting. Our organization avoids the possible performance degradation and resource congestion that can occur with shared hosts by using dedicated hosts, resulting in enhanced application performance and reliability. Furthermore, …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

The pricing has made a substantial difference between several other providers. Once fully optimized we were able to actually run MORE servers due to the cost savings, as it becomes a break-even in the previous price we were paying for a lesser amount of servers. Although we’re still in the testing …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reserved Servers

We have not used this feature, as we’re still in the testing phase of >10 servers. We will slowly increase/move servers in the next couple of months, but I do hope to manage to try this feature out in the near future. However, there are many other features that are provided, that are still …
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IBM Cloud Portfolio

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We have used IBM hardware and software for years. Although IBM is a little behind in the cloud world, it has some unique features like running Linux on Z platform.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

The biggest impact that transient pricing has had on our organization is the ability to run workloads on spare capacity at a fraction of the cost of dedicated servers. This has allowed us to save money on our overall cloud budget and has also allowed us to use more of our spare capacity than we …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reserved Servers

The impact of reserved computes capacity on overall operations has been significant. We have seen an increase in the overall stability of our systems. In addition, we have seen a reduction in the time it takes to provision new virtual machines, and an increase in the overall efficiency of our …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

It's nice that we only get charged for what we use, the pricing structure is straightforward and it's great that it's built-in and we don't have to go through reallocations in order to get more or less capacity. This makes it easy for us to bring on or obsolete test environments quickly and …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

Instead of having its own on-premises servers, having this cloud as a hybrid will help reduce costs. The transitional costs that IBM offers for virtual workers in the cloud permits our association to build up extra information is just a small portion of the expense. This is a helpful choice that …
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IBM Cloud Portfolio

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When using the various IBM Cloud products, we have found that they have the greatest return on investment when they are being used in conjunction with each other. We use several of the IBM Cloud …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

Transient pricing for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are very helpful it helps to set up our testing environment in the IBM cloud space, the pricing is very clean and transparent which is predictable this allows [scaling] quickly when we need extra resources at peak time
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing

This has literally reduced the cost of the overall setup as we were paying a lot on the DC pricing and further AMC values where clients used to encounter the high outages and some places where the point in time recovery was almost not-possible. The cost has reduced to almost 60% of what we used to …
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Dedicated Hosts

This has helped customers to easily have a better understanding of the security setup and as I mentioned the high availability is better due to the feature IBM cloud used to auto-assign the placement for the impacted hosts and thus helps in reduction in downtime and engineers were able to easily …
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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)
    8.2
    82%
  • Pre-defined machine images (78)
    8.2
    82%
  • Operating system support (84)
    8.2
    82%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Saleem Beeravu
Chief Solution Architect
The ConceptZ Solutions (Insurance, 51-200 employees)
Rebecca Scott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rebecca Scott
Cloud Engineer
ChipSoft (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)
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Pricing

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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)

starting at $0.22

Cloud
per hour

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (dedicated host)

starting at $149.00

Cloud
per month

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (multi-tenant)

starting at $0.038

Cloud
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 Competitors

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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

(119)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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November 13, 2019

If you have a need for high IOPS, the IBM cloud is probably your most cost-effective option

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Utilities Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
All of our servers are on the cloud, and that is IBM's cloud. As of today, we have 102 virtual servers, along with the associated required storage. In our case, storage is our largest cloud investment since our business is to host a data-crunching application to help our clients and utilities, make sense and act upon their customers' incoming smart meter data.
Pros and Cons
  • Storage that provides high IOPS at a cost-effective rate. We evaluated other offerings this summer, in particular, AWS and Microsoft, and their high-IOPS disks were more expensive than IBM's.
  • Automated deployment of new virtual servers and their storage is simplified by an API which we leverage using Ansible.
  • In our tier, support is timely.
  • Billing is complicated and unclear. It can be difficult to determine exactly how much each instance costs, and grouping them is also difficult (we need to charge different machines to different internal departments, and while we have resorted to using labels in the server names, we are not able to do that with storage).
  • Their firewall options are not user-friendly nor very cost-effective. We use their Vyatta offering and, though it is an operating system rooted in free software, it is expensive. It is difficult to manage as well as its mgmt is done exclusively via a hard-to-learn text-only hierarchical configuration.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited: Environments with a high volume of storage-intensive processes which require high IOPS disks. Less appropriate: If bare metal servers are required, they can be expensive. Also, operations that require constant networking changes might find easier ways to do it.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Feature Ratings
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (8)
35%
3.5
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
90%
9.0
Dynamic scaling
N/A
N/A
Elastic load balancing
N/A
N/A
Pre-configured templates
N/A
N/A
Monitoring tools
30%
3.0
Pre-defined machine images
60%
6.0
Operating system support
80%
8.0
Security controls
20%
2.0
Return on Investment
  • Positive: High IOPS storage is quite cost effective.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Transient Pricing
The complexity of our application has prevented us from being able to split it off into bite-sized applets that could perform data crunching on servers without a guaranteed uptime. This is unlikely to change in the near future.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Reserved Servers
This is probably something we would be interested in if we were able to better understand its potential benefits and pitfalls.
Alternatives Considered
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon's high IOPS storage devices are more expensive than the ones on the IBM cloud, per singular IOPS (input/output operation per second) so it makes much more sense for us to stick with IBM even if the other services that amazon offers are somewhat less costly, all things considered.
Premium Support
Yes
Bug Resolution
Yes
Unfortunately, it wasn't. The bug resulted in our losing data, and it took much, much back and forth just to get their support team to admit the issue was caused by their side. In the end, our data was irretrievably lost, our project was delayed as a result, and the bug is still present. Only now, we know how to work around it and avoid it.
Exceptional Examples of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Support
Sorry but, no. Their support is adequate at best.
Support Rating
7
It is adequate, but you need to be ready to argue your point - which is fair enough, I suppose, but being given the opposite of the benefit of the doubt every time does not necessarily result in an enjoyable user experience.
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