VPC server on IBM Cloud usage review
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPCFormerly IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
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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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- Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime (81)8.383%
- Monitoring tools (84)8.383%
- Pre-defined machine images (78)8.383%
- Operating system support (84)8.282%
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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
- VMware ESXi
- VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud
- McAfee Total Protection (discontinued)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB
- Veeam Data Platform
- FreeBSD
- NetApp ONTAP Select
- OSNEXUS QuantaStor
- Virtuozzo Application Platform
- Ubuntu
- CENT OS
- CloudLinux
- Debian
- Microsoft
- Red Had
- Vyatta Virtual Router Appliance
- Citrix XenServer
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- APF Software Firewall
- Microsoft Windows Firewall
- Basho Riak
- IBM Cloud Analytics
- My SQL
- Fantastico
- RVSkin
- Softaculous
- R1Soft Server Backup Manager Enterprise
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Competitors
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | Mobile 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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March 27, 2024
VPC server on IBM Cloud usage review
Sorry , we have not reached that level of usage, but are slowly moving towards that
Having the ability on guaranteed capacity it can easy and also helpful when it comes to handling multiple large projects data and also storage of any data size through Cloud services and very securely. Balancing different Cloud workloads is also effective and cost effective saving project time and network resources.
March 16, 2024
IBM Cloud Virtual Filling Needs
New project rollouts when we have changed broker dealers in the financial services industry has made this highly benefical and efficient. We had a temporary need for high capacity and once the move was complete it was back to a normal mode.
February 07, 2024
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
Not used till date.
February 06, 2024
Reliable with simple APIs
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.
We have not used instance reservations.
We have not had to use this capability yet.
February 10, 2023
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is essential in every workplace
Surprisingly we have utilized the complete 20 virtual machines and since it has the reserved computing capacity it did not slow down or crash.
February 09, 2023
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
I haven't used this service.
December 30, 2022
So/so? Still testing
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 being tested with no problems.
December 14, 2022
IBM Cloud provides Linux on Z platform
Sorry, have not used it, but it is a good feature.
October 20, 2022
The best virtual servers for customization and management.
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 operations.
We did not make use of this service to this scale.
March 17, 2022
Best if you're already using other IBM services
December 03, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers: Flexible and Secure Computing Options
This service allowed organizations to reserve virtual servers in advance so that they will be able to run when the users need them. Also, this increases the efficiency of operations because VMs can be up even before requests for their use are made.
December 02, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Server: Dependable and Easy to Configure
It's made it a lot easier to have guaranteed resources if we anticipate that we'll need extra environments for periods of extra testing or if other teams need dedicated compute resources that are hard to acquire elsewhere.
We have not reserved servers before.
November 26, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Fastest, Secure and Affordable.
We have used IBM Cloud, its virtual servers, and approximately many IBM services and some microservices. We have used it for web application environments and job queues. It was easy to set up. It is helpful for us for the application enhancements.
November 22, 2021
My opinion on IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 2021
we aren't aware of this, if so it will be a great option to be considered.
November 22, 2021
IBM Virtual Servers " Easy and flexible to Use Autoscaling"
We mostly use for high sensitive customers in order to avoid delay of the instance. We had used this many times during the application enhancements so there should be no delay if we want the instance type immediately.
September 28, 2021
IBM Cloud recommendations
You can reserve as much as 20VM as per your need and you can turn [it] on and off as per your development process.
This operation lets you save and reserve all of your development processes in [a] safe environment [that] can be [accessed] from your development machine. This is [the] best part of IBM [Cloud Virtual Servers].
This operation lets you save and reserve all of your development processes in [a] safe environment [that] can be [accessed] from your development machine. This is [the] best part of IBM [Cloud Virtual Servers].
August 14, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers - Reliable but not fancy
We have only 4 virtual server instances on the IBM Cloud. We never had to reserve machines.
May 12, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
Faster times were achieved in spawning the servers, and we have used up to 7 servers from the reserved quota and it guaranteed our capacities with good performance.