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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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Awards

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Popular Features

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

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 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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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Rebecca Scott | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
  • IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
  • IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
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 control using these IBM platforms is effective. Workload balancing, Cloud services Automation and data integration functionalities are nice with easy data visualization options.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Cloud Foundry
  • IBM Cloud Databases
Besides hosting in-house developed systems, we use some off the shelf softwares for which turned out to be good candidates for cloud foundry + managed databases in terms of cost efficiency.
Alexandre Carvalho | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage
  • IBM Db2 on Cloud
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
  • IBM Cloud Container Registry
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage
  • IBM Cloud Databases
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 products and have found that they mesh quite nicely. Oftentimes, the solutions rely on one another so they work really well together.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage
IBM Cloud object storage is a good fit for any organization [that] had a lot of data, it is elastic, flexible and it can be scaled into multiple petabits if we need it. no need to worry about storage and investing in HDD
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
  • IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Getting good support as of now. We're using multiple IBM portfolio products as linked with each other. Of course, we've faced issues sometimes because of compatibility with other technology.
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