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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is mainly being used to take the computing load for our advanced financial forecasting and modeling. We use this when running data reports that have a high CPU load. We have found this fits our needs as we do not have the scope to purchase our own servers and IBM cloud allows us to manage the cost of our package subject to our requirements.
- The flexibility of the packages available is great. We can choose just what we need almost on a case by case basis.
- Price structure is very clear and easy to understand.
- To date the uptime on the servers has been second to none.
- The UI of the control panel can take some getting used to.
- User documentation could be expanded.
April 11, 2020
Overall a positive review, you guys are great!
Dedicated server that hosts a variety of different websites. It's best for me to have a dedicated server so I can control any custom software I need to use like Apache, MySQL, the PHP version, and Node. I also can control and verify the server backups which is a big deal to me. It allows me to ensure all the critical data is being backed up and how often those backups are being stored on another remote server outside of the data center.
- Uptime of the servers, and when there is downtime then you guys always notify me of the downtime and the issue.
- Customer support is always perfect.
- Flexibility when I need to add better processors, or more memory, etc.
- I can see just about every detail of my server by logging in to IBM's control panel.
- Can start off very low budget ($50.00 dollars per month) and scale up in the future when needed.
- The control panel is sometimes a little overwhelming because you offer so many products and services.
- I always had trouble setting up the KVM, but that could be me just not knowing how to set it up.
- I get so many status update emails that I tend to ignore them. I understand it's important to notify people of a status like "IBM Cloud engineers are conducting a technology refresh project on internal components of the provisioning system". But really I just want a status update if my server will be going offline. Perhaps I can change this in settings, but I have not been able to locate where to make this change.
April 07, 2020
A powerful, often overlooked cloud platform
IBM Cloud Virtual servers are one of the easiest VPS clouds to setup. Offering a lot of flexibility, high visibility on projected costs, and accurate estimates of setup time, it takes very little time and effort to get an IBM Cloud Virtual server off the ground. The wide variety of locations lets my industry, video games, select the appropriate location depending on relative player base location, a very helpful problem to address.
- Many locations available
- Fast setup time
- Clear cost structure
- User access can be confusing.
- Not a friendly interface for those not familiar with cloud technologies.
- Somewhat high price when provisioning Windows servers.
March 04, 2020
Review of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers across the whole organization. We are using the IBM cloud to host our servers and support our security of these servers. We want to leverage the IBM infrastructure and don't want to spend time or money on hosting our own servers. We are a startup, so time and resources need to be prioritized and valued.
- UI for spinning up a new server is excellent.
- The documentation for spinning up a new server is excellent.
- Spin-up time is very good.
- After the server was provisioned, I did not see the "Password" choice on the lower left-hand side of the screen.
- Documentation, especially this line, "Select the Passwords tab to show all passwords for the instance," is not correct. There is no "Passwords tab." It is a selection choice on the left-hand side of the screen.
- The website does not even mention the root password or where to find it.
December 17, 2019
Perfect set of IT tools by a world class cloud provider
We are using IBM Virtual servers for several reasons:
- For quickly distributing environments between team members so they can develop and test our web portal iterations.
- We are using IBM Virtual machines specifically for development and DevOps purposes.
- By using IBM Virtual servers, we overcome many difficulties such as maintenance of physical hardware, we achieved scale-ability and our team easily works on our products remotely.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are available in many regions around the world which is helpful in case we need a server near to our client.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers can be configured to use all sorts of operating systems which comes in handy to test applications across many environments.
- I would love to have more profiles for quick provisioning.
- IBM recently offered a discount for its Bare Metal Servers. You need to have the same service for the IBM Virtual Server.
December 07, 2019
Review: IBM Virtual Servers for Cloud Gaming
We use IBM Cloud VM across our infrastructure for different purposes. We are a cloud gaming company and we are super satisfied as we get top notch hardware such as V100s for our users to satisfy their gaming specs. From the business perspective, the prices are cheap than what GCP and AWS has to offer.
- Fast Provisioning
- Cheaper prices than competition
- Technical Support Debugging
- GPU performance is sometimes degraded.
- Lot of maintenance activity.
- No option BYOL for Windows Servers.
December 02, 2019
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
I resell IBM Cloud services to my clients.
- Honestly looking at other companies like Azure and Amazon, I don't see pros for IBM.
- Windows licenses are very expensive.
- Support, it was very bad, just getting worse!
- Cloud images are too few compared to AWS, IBM is way behind AWS.
- Reseller training and certification practically does not exist.
- The decrease in the resale value that resellers have in reselling services.
January 28, 2020
I love working with IBM, even though my company is small.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is the main service used by our company. We are a software supply company in the SaaS form, and we use IBM's infrastructure to install our software and provide services to our customers.
- Very clear price and services
- Simple and easy setup
- Support in Portuguese
December 30, 2019
Review Of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We are replacing our datacenter for infrastructure as a service. We have some racks and our rent data center, so we decided to move to the cloud and stop buying expensive hardware while getting more infrastructure. It is more cost-effective to go to the cloud for our infrastructure and our datacenter.
- Citrix Services
- ERP Solutions
- DRP on premises.
- Citrix Provisioning Services
December 06, 2019
Great value option in the right use case
I am using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers directly to test the design decisions that have been taken for client solutions. Cloud Virtual servers are an easy and cost effective way of building test/POC environments to test out architecture designs and to provide quick and easy proof of concept facilities.
- Quick provision times.
- Plenty of configuration options.
- Easily managed.
- Flexible.
- No improvements to suggest.
May 25, 2020
Awesome Service but Costs May Be High
We use IBM Cloud to optimize our customer experience. It is also used in our infrastructure and our website. Therefore, it is being used across the whole organization rather than just a department.
- Fast provisioning.
- Fast support.
- Easy integration.
- Great UI.
- Expensive.
- Charges for OS reloads.
- Charges for switching licenses with no refund.
We are selling IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to our partners. Our partners use it for different cases. The main reason they choose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is the fact that it is very easy to use as well as the fact that it is highly scalable and it makes them future proof.
- Highly scalable.
- Fast provisioning.
- Great integration with third party services.
- Billing items is not clear enough.
- The catalog can be overwhelming.
May 20, 2020
Decent cloud based virtualisation
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers within the IT department. We use various hosted servers for data transfer purposes mainly SFTP. This saves us from having to purchase our own hardware, saves time on maintenance and also saves bandwidth on our office internet connection. As an IT company we find it extremely easy to spin up new servers in the cloud.
- Intuitive UI
- Excellent help and documentation
- Flexible VM options
- No reseller training portal
- Expensive licences
April 20, 2020
Great product that could use some simpler VS setups
It is mainly being used in data science and actuarial departments for heavyweight modelling where either high memory or large CPU requirements (or both) are required. Also as we explore further the use of machine learning and AI, the possibility to access very large GPU machines is appealing as this dramatically increases efficiency in a cost effective way.
- A broad range of setup options, so we can choose the right GPU/CPU/RAM for the run at hand, which makes things more cost-effective.
- Data security is important to us, being able to choose a server location helps with giving assurance that the data will be looked after appropriately.
- The cloud site is extremely well set out, it is very easy to quickly spec out and cost a VM.
- When launching a VSI it's not always obvious how far progressed or how long we will have to wait.
- It's also not 100% clear when billing starts and stops.
- It would be great to have a few "works out of the box" configurations, with sensible defaults so that inexperienced users can quickly launch a windows instance to run a heavy model without having to worry about getting config exactly right. "too many options".
April 08, 2020
My IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
We have been with IBM Cloud for more than 5 years and, initially with 1 server and then we added a few servers for testing applications. We have settled with 2 now. This server is used by many of our clients across the country and beyond. The IBM Cloud Virtual Server addresses our IT Infrastructure requirements and its elastic nature fits best for our business.
- Excellent Support
- Very good performance
- Very easy to use
- Voice Support should be provided to premium customers
Extensive use for IBM Cloud deployments for CPQ and CLM enterprise capabilities
- scalability is very strong.
- monitoring is good, but could be improved with more stats.
- access groups
- resource groups
- monitoring
- Some API services are very immature
January 11, 2020
Not a very happy customer with IBM
We host all of our services on the IBM cloud. We use more than 20 servers to run our frontend, backend, databases, and internal streaming services. All of the virtual IBM tools are used to serve our clients and to solve big data and ML problems. We do our own customizations to match the needs of our clients.
- Limiting your choices.
- Giving you reasons to learn how to do things your own way and not fully depend on their platform.
- Does not support virtual Lan.
- Does not support unlimited virtual disk storage.
November 11, 2019
One of the few ways to get out emails in an economical way
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.
- An email server is allowed, and in particular, on port 25.
- Able to create a backup server and power it off until needed.
- Reasonably priced compared to the other major cloud services.
- Don't know if this is possible, but I'd like to make a snapshot of my current server for backup purposes. Unfortunately a snapshot takes too long (too many hours), and our server can't be off for more than a few hours at a time.
We use IBM Virtual Servers for our entire company. We offer web hosting and game server hosting (hosted in IBM Servers) in Mexico for small businesses and students in all of Latin America.
- Support is really good, and you have chat support and people helping for everything you need!
- It offers a variety of configurations and operating systems for all needs.
- It offers great add-ons and integrations.
- Dashboard loading at login.
- More locations for Latin America would be good.
- More add-ons and integrations.
It is being used by the Berkeley MIDS program (Masters of Information and Data Science) as part of the deep learning on the cloud and on the edge curriculum.
- Nice offering of different compute capabilities.
- Good CLI.
- Easy to understand UI.
- Can't suspend billing when not using VMs.
- Configuration can be difficult for storage and network.
We use IBM Cloud, its virtual servers and an approximately 15 IBM services and microservices. We have used and built on Bluemix, both for testing and evaluation of code efficiency, as well as for cost evaluation and estimation of budgets.
We have also built final solutions in the IBM cloud for third parties, reducing costs (compared to similar services in AWS and Azure).
We have also built final solutions in the IBM cloud for third parties, reducing costs (compared to similar services in AWS and Azure).
- Easy customization and configuration of a virtual server.
- Easy and fast delivery of generated service
- Security, firewall and incredible capabilities to link to other IBM services and microservices
- It is necessary to verify that the DNS has been correctly generated since if there are errors.
- There is a type of deploy that does not allow to increase the details of the already generated.
IBM Cloud recently acquired SoftLayer, and so we became an IBM customer. We are using their virtual servers primarily for web servers and job queues.
- Servers are deployed quickly after ordering them
- They do a good job notifying us of pending maintenance
- Servers are fast and reliable
- The private network across their data centers is great
- They are aggressively decommissioning services and data centers and forcing us to migrate relatively new servers to other data centers
- They could respond more quickly to tickets/cases
November 13, 2019
If you have a need for high IOPS, the IBM cloud is probably your most cost-effective option
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.
- 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.
November 11, 2019
Could use a better UI and customer service
We host several services such as a development server, management
software, etc. It is basically the pool for our shared information and
software.
software, etc. It is basically the pool for our shared information and
software.
- They are always online and there is not so much trouble to connect and use.
- You can almost immediately use a new server.
- There is a lot of flexibility on the hardware one can use.
- We had trouble using the copy of the virtual server we made. So we had to reconfigure it from scratch.
- It would be good if one could dynamically change the hardware’s characteristics without having to reset the whole server.
- We have been struggling with the new UI. When it changed from Softlayer to IBM cloud. We experience difficulties getting used to the new interface, the customer service also was slower and sometimes even incorrect since they gave us a solution from the last UI which did not longer work.
- Also, the new webpage is not as responsive as it should. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to load, or one needs to reload in order to see the changes.
We manage infrastructure for several clients, and the ones that use IBM Cloud use it exclusively and across the whole organization. We use IBM Cloud services to provide service for their web/mobile application's backend. This includes APIs, internal processes, networking, continuous integration, and continuous delivery workflows, testing, and several environments; among other things. We design, implement, and use these features, providing support for the full extent of their infrastructure.
- $1000/month credit for IBM Cloud services.
- Support for modern technologies.
- Well performing hardware.
- Very limited integration for non-IBM Cloud tooling.
- Expensive price per hour.
- Server provisioning times that make CI/CD unusable.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
Build on a legacy of excellence.
IBM Cloud virtual server environments deliver true,
cloud-native solutions that work across public, private and hybrid
deployments. Get the 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. When you build with IBM Cloud virtual servers, you build on a legacy of excellence. Our elastic infrastructure, globally distributed data centers and premium services will bring your 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
Build blended hybrid environments
with predictability and confidence. Create new solutions that interact with existing infrastructure and applications. Access a variety of network choices and powerful AI solutions designed to put data to work.
Categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Video
Flexible provisioning is key with IBM Cloud virtual servers. Choose from single and multi-tenant environments with hourly and monthly billing options, transient "spot" environments for on-the-fly resources at lower costs, and reserved environments for guaranteed capacity that's all yours.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Downloadables
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Integrations
VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere on IBM Cloud, McAfee Total Protection, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Veeam Backup & Replication, FreeBSD, CENT OS, CloudLinux, Debian, Microsoft, Red Had, Ubuntu, Vyatta Virtual Router Appliance, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtuozzo, APF Software Firewall, Microsoft Windows Firewall, Basho Riak, IBM Cloud Analytics, My SQL, Fantastico, RVSkin, Softaculous, R1Soft Server Backup Manager Enterprise, Netapp ONTAP Select, OSNEXUS QuantaStor
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Competitors
AWS EC2 Virtual Servers, Google Compute Engine Virtual Machines, Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?Optional
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers | starting at $0.038 | per hour |
| IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers | starting at $0.22 | per hour |
| IBM Cloud Public Virtual Servers | starting at $25.21 | per month |
| IBM Cloud Dedicated Virtual Servers | starting at $149.00 | per month |
| IBM Cloud Transient Virtual Servers | starting at $0.01 | per hour |
| IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers | starting at $0.02 | per hour |
| IBM Cloud Reserved Virtual Servers | starting at $13.27 | per month |
IBM Cloud virtual servers include 250 GB of outbound public bandwidth, unmetered inbound public bandwidth, and unmetered private and management network bandwidth.
For the latest information on pricing, visit https://console.bluemix.net/catalog/infrastructure/virtual-server-group
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Support Options
| Free Version | Paid Version | |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | ||
| Live Chat | ||
| Forum/Community | ||
| FAQ/Knowledgebase | ||
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| Video Tutorials / Webinar |
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux, CENTOS/Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat/Linux, Ubuntu/Linux |
| Mobile Application: | Mobile Web |