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
As already stated our costs are reduced by 75% as the transient pricing enables us to dynamically re provision resources at will any time thereby reducing overall expenses
Through the spare capacity available the process of workloads balancing and Cloud storage management operations are smoothly operated without much cost and the security level on all data cross Cloud services is excellent. The IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC also enable easy configuration management and the network segments isolation is incredible.
March 16, 2024
IBM Cloud Virtual Filling Needs
I am not involved in the pricing off this but I do know the monthly pay as you use billing is cost effective in our environment. There are times when use is more beneficial over a period of weeks and other times not so much.
February 07, 2024
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
This is the main reason we go for Virtual Cloud servers whenever we need it.
But nowadays there are other options with much better pricing providing the same functionality, so it is high time IBM reviews their pricing also to align with the market trend
But nowadays there are other options with much better pricing providing the same functionality, so it is high time IBM reviews their pricing also to align with the market trend
February 06, 2024
Reliable with simple APIs
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 that they are not resizable (CPU, Mem).
We have a pretty regular load so don’t need this feature yet.
Transient pricing allows us to use the capacity we need when we need it, without commitment in the future.
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 that's exactly how this pricing model is set up. Win-win! The "pay-as-you-use by the hour" model is appreciated.
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 not need to be billed monthly. This is how I was able to cut down my server costs. I can create server images, deploy them quickly, get billed hourly, and end at any time while having my main server billed monthly.
February 10, 2023
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is essential in every workplace
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 and the Cloud Server Services has helped us with it.
February 09, 2023
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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 workloads require.
December 30, 2022
So/so? Still testing
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 phase, we shall see once the deployment freeze ends
December 14, 2022
IBM Cloud provides Linux on Z platform
If it fits your needs, then yes it is cheaper to run your Z servers on the IBM cloud. If you just need to run regular linux/windows vms on x86, you can compare with the competirors for better pricing.
October 20, 2022
The best virtual servers for customization and management.
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 otherwise would have been able to.
Transient pricing has had no impact as we were unable to successfully achieve a working implementation of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers.
March 17, 2022
Best if you're already using other IBM services
We've never had onsite/hosted servers, so this is the same as any cloud service provider.
December 03, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers: Flexible and Secure Computing Options
Transient pricing enabled organizations to run flexible workloads on spare capacity. It was a fraction of the cost of dedicated servers. The impact that transient pricing had on my organization is that it allowed management to be more flexible with the resources. By being able to use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, we were able to save money and still get the performance we needed.
December 02, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Server: Dependable and Easy to Configure
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 without incurring unnecessary costs.
November 30, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are the best
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 limits costs.
We haven't used the transient virtual server offering, but it should save a lot in costs.
November 26, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Fastest, Secure and Affordable.
I like this feature because it allows us to spend on what we need at the time. That means that we pay on an as per our need. Their pricing structure is easy to understand. For smaller businesses, IBM transient pricing is very helpful.
November 22, 2021
My opinion on IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 2021
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
November 22, 2021
IBM Virtual Servers " Easy and flexible to Use Autoscaling"
Transient pricing is good easy to calculate and make decisions on which servers can be used and performed. We mostly calculate on bulk servers so it's easy for us to choose between cloud vendors.
November 21, 2021
Good Setup for Existing IBM users .
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 pay before.
November 20, 2021
Power Virtual Server is the most powerful service on cloud
Power Virtual Server is charged per hour so it is possible to reserve the machine only for short time. Once the machine is reserved is not possible to change the amount of memory, is static.