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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%
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- 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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November 22, 2021
My opinion on IBM Cloud Virtual Servers 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are a very easy-to-use and well-documented product, we use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers as our test environment for most of our projects. we also use other virtual servers providers but IBM offers much easier control of the Cloud Virtual Servers
- Security
- Easy to use
- scalable
- The User interface need some improvement
- Need more regions
November 22, 2021
IBM Virtual Servers " Easy and flexible to Use Autoscaling"
We are using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for our customers for application hosting. The auto-scaling feature is most effective and helped our customers without any issues. We also use our databases on virtual servers as they are more secure and reliable.
- auto scaling
- Speed
- Security
- Cost effective.
- Few UI enhancements required as its confusing for new users.
- Dashboards
- Reserved dedicated instances like AWS
- Cost can be little bit less
November 21, 2021
Good Setup for Existing IBM users .
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers has helped to implement virtualized, single-tenant, dedicated servers. We already had a setup on IBM P series and planned to migrate the setup on Cloud. Took help form the vendor i.e. IBM on the support documents and I must say they have maintained the KB very well and are self sufficient to help implement the migration. This was a setup of Migration from 70 IBM P-series servers to IBM Cloud Virtual environment.
- Migration
- Cost Analysis
- Monitoring integration
- Licensing
- Disk Latency analysis
- Further API integration
November 20, 2021
Power Virtual Server is the most powerful service on cloud
- Performance
- Easy to create
- Super fast Internet connection
- In some location the are not free machines
- In some locations will generate error during the creation
September 28, 2021
IBM Cloud recommendations
We use IBM cloud services for production servers and testing servers. We directly host our development to VPC for client approvals before final deployment to [the] production environment. After clients' approvals, we proceed to [the] production server and delivery. Sometimes before delivering to clients we need to test more load and some other things that work under our organization and it should be in our infrastructure only so IBM VPC is [the] best option for us.
- IBM VPC connect through any ssh and it's easy to handle it through any instance.
- Public key and private key for access server is best part in security concerns.
- Lightweight application to be easy to host on VPC rather than software as a service.
- Need to improve in ubuntu updates
- Dashboard should have all infrastructure reports
- SSH key should automatically generated
September 19, 2021
Reliable cloud with a slightly higher cost and not top performance
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, called also VSI (Virtual Server Instance), in various ways:
- Some services for our customers (e.g. mail server, web server, DNS).
- Some internal services, that for various reasons, we prefer to keep separate from the main infrastructure.
- Backup server (with Veeam) for our bare metal-based infrastructure.
We chose IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to have VMs immediately ready and scalable at will. We also find it valuable to have licenses (eg Microsoft Windows and Veeam) with a monthly fee, without worrying about contracts, maintenance, and renewals.
- Scalability
- Clear pricing
- KVM
- Networking
- Firewall
- Stability
- Performance
August 22, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Services Review
We are using IBM cloud virtual servers in Symantec data loss prevention enterprise server as storage.
- Realability
- Speed
- Cost
- Easy to manage
- More realability
- Downtime
- User trainings
August 14, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers - Reliable but not fancy
Our production, testing, and dev servers all run IBM Cloud VPC.
- Identity management - we are able to set different roles and access levels for the users.
- Rest APIs makes it so easy to automate certain tasks.
- IBM Cloud cost calculator determines the estimated costs and helps utilize the resources effectively.
- They have a great support team.
- Needs to add scheduled snapshot feature.
- Should add more regions in the VPC.
- Definitely needs to improve the documentation.
June 14, 2021
My Experience With IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers in our IT department. We use this software for email, a database, apps, and a website server. We particularly use this IBM Virtual Server because it allows creating email virtual servers, unlike other virtual server providers. We have also used IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host our web-based applications and systems. What makes IBM Cloud Virtual Servers even better is that it offers easy control of the servers. It has been very helpful to our business.
- It is very secure.
- Easy to access and manage.
- Affordable compared to the competitors.
- Creating virtual servers is easy.
- The software is very fast.
- It is scalable.
- Few customization features.
- While it is easy to use, the user interface needs some improvement.
We have deployed all our services in IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. It serves all HTTP and HTTPS requests for corp CMS, application, and API for internet users.
- Global private network (between US and Asia)
- Each Virtual Server has the flexibility to have [a] different NIC with Pub and Private access
- Flexibility in size up and down
- Console access. The current one is so out of date that requires Java plugin.
- Better builtin VPN server access with modern protocols
May 19, 2021
Great product
It's used for an easier and more manageable control of the servers. Sometimes for instance if one project requires a server where to do all the testing we can easily do so thanks to IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. It also makes much easier the launch of a new project online.
- Creation on virtual servers.
- Managing of the various solutions.
- Check for an issue.
- Complicated interface.
- Expansive.
- Sometimes not super responsive.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are being used for machine learning training and for software development.
Immediate access to the V100 and P100 GPU and 32-core CPUs allows quick testing of machine learning models and methods along with the ease of saving templates and instantiating new servers provides an extraordinarily smooth development process.
JetBrains' Projector has been recently adopted as a means to develop code on a remote machine with a much better experience than remote desktops.
The IBM Cloud Virtual Server interface is simple enough to make the instantiation of a new instance seamless.
Immediate access to the V100 and P100 GPU and 32-core CPUs allows quick testing of machine learning models and methods along with the ease of saving templates and instantiating new servers provides an extraordinarily smooth development process.
JetBrains' Projector has been recently adopted as a means to develop code on a remote machine with a much better experience than remote desktops.
The IBM Cloud Virtual Server interface is simple enough to make the instantiation of a new instance seamless.
- Managing server resources (including configuration)
- Fitting these servers into the production pipeline (because of the templating system and ease of using them to create instances)
- Integration with other IBM Cloud products (such as Object Storage)
- Solid connection to servers (e.g. SSH connections never or rarely drop)
- Easy recovery (seamless backup options)
- Provide an environment for testing CLI scripts
- Maybe offer option to automate backup/restore on shutdown to allow no charging when powered down
- Make the dashboard UI more lightweight so that it's faster and smoother to navigate
May 12, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
We presently use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers as our primary component for provisioning virtual infrastructure to host our internal applications on.
- A range of features and potential for scalability and recycling of resources.
- 24x7 support and coverage.
- A breadth and depth of customizable options pre and post provisioning.
- More direct control over IAM and access from the portal would be nice.
- The management portal could use improvement with regards to inventory and resource management/listings.
May 10, 2021
Best Virtual Cloud Server
Our organization is using IBM Cloud Virtual Server for hosting our personal and public websites. We used to deploy and host using all types of instances and use Cloud to store our database virtually. We are also using IBM Cloud for developing and testing our environment. Also, IBM provides a protected cloud server.
- Easy setup
- Fast deployment
- Cost efficient
- Its easy to adapt IBM's cloud environment
- Covey protected environment
- Better upgrades
- Customize
- Hazy UI/UX
- Often deactivating servers which forces us to switch servers.
These scalable servers we use to deploy and host our code for running our instances. The auto-scaling issue was our major focus problem and IBM cloud virtual servers handled this ease in our organization.
- Auto scaling feature
- Professional support
- Competitive pricing
- Need to have regional support.
- Problems with restoring from old backups.
- More customized VMs instead of pre-configured VMs.
May 09, 2021
An easy and flexible way to Cloud
IBM Cloud Servers are being used by my organization to sustain our application and handle all the efficiency improvement tasks for the betterment of our end-user. It is a highly sizable and developer-friendly platform that helps in easy management. Our team plays along through the web due to the pandemic so it is easy to manage over the web.
- Highly sizable
- Time saving
- Efficient
- A little costlier
- Can have an updated interface
- Can have better support for multiple platforms
May 09, 2021
IBM Virtual Servers for Cloud are best in market
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for IT department purposes serving the whole organization. We use the Iaas facility services for our work. It is very cost-effective compared to other vendors and we are also able to scale it easily and effectively. The time taken to deploy it is extremely fast and also the security offered is of a very good grade.
- Security
- Speed
- Cost
- The cost for buying the product is severely high compared to other vendors.
- The documentation and implementation is complex and confusing.
- Most of the services are being disabled/deactivated.
April 23, 2021
Secure and scalable virtual environment
It's one of the scalable servers we use to deploy and host our code for running our instances. It's the most scalable server having custom security controls available to use. We use it for team-specific projects to deploy. We store our database as well to make them more scalable and secure on the server.
- Scalable
- Easy deployment
- Secure
- Needs to make a prepaid cloud
- Customization
- Improve UI/UX with voice controls enabled
April 19, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review
IBM Cloud conveys a protected, community-oriented cloud-based climate that upholds a full lifecycle of sped-up application improvement, organization, and conveyance. Also IBM Cloud VPS for organization-wide; for development, testing, and production environment. We can also use IBM Cloud VPS for different kinds of jobs, for example, site facilitating, email, wiki, reinforcements, backup, and DNS. The difficulty it settled was the speed at which we could convey extra workers, contrasted with documenting a solicitation with an IT office.
- best controls for the capacity to choose the speed of the Ethernet interface are elite to the IBM Cloud offering.
- The adaptability of admittance to information empowers the customer to get to information anyplace whenever.
- The entirety of Softlayers' arrangements and administrations are completely versatile to meet your requirements, with a colossal measure of alternatives for both the administrations they offer and the administration choices accessible for those administrations.
- They are aggressively deactivating services and data centers and forcing us to migrate relatively new servers to other data centers and may respond more quickly to tickets / cases, this is not a cloud provider but, amateurs in trouble, they do not deserve positive reviews !
- cost is very high and I truly figure they ought to give various dialects for support function.
- UI is quite complex they should update it with simple features.
We're using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for our application servers across two locations. Major issue was resolved after using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is auto-scaling.
- [Scaling].
- Easy UI Console.
- Best in Class support.
- Data recovery.
- Large storage with minimum downtime.
- Dedicated Reserve instance.
February 20, 2021
Fantastic Value with Reliability
We currently us IBM Virtual Servers to host a number of various sites, from Wordpress to Custom made programs to fulfill a specific job. We have been migrating all assets over to one company and IBM virtual Servers is a big part of this. We love the flexibility of the configuarations
- Easy re-configuring of the server
- Expansion of storage
- Reliability - We have never had an issue
- The GUI itself can be hard to learn at first - so some design considerations
- Sales - Oddly I have had issues getting sales to answer questions
December 31, 2020
IBM Cloud Power instances
We are currently managing Power (IBMi) servers for our customers.<br>We wanted to test Power Virtual Servers as a new hosting solution.
- Powerful servers, IBMi is running fine.
- Easy deployment, scalability.
- Instances available in 2 or more locations.
- Cloud portal need some time to adapt, especially about response time.
- Some documentation lacks details.
- (Power instances only) Network is too complicated and expensive.
- Migration of existing IBMi partition can be really painful.
November 25, 2020
Great services with a broad portfolio!
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host our entire SaaS platform that hundreds of healthcare organizations utilize across the globe.
- Quick spinup
- Great choice
- Good value
- The ability to select the amount of memory by amount of GB's
November 05, 2020
Let IBM handle the servers so you can handle your business
Our internal IT department uses IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host and run all of our internal systems. This means we have not had to procure, maintain, or support the hardware infrastructure ourselves (including network, electricity, backup, etc.) and can focus on our own business instead.
- Automatic scaling depends on usage and demand.
- Easy to work with.
- Cost can be lowered if you can find a good reseller (VAT).
- Support turnaround can take a while due to timezones, etc. Once had to wait on the phone on Saturday for hours in order to get ahold of someone.
- Reliability can be better, especially if you are running mission critical systems and need 99+% uptime guarantee.
- Communication about changes (e.g. pricing) should be more prompt and timely.
October 20, 2020
The amazing IBM Cloud VS
We have two applications, MySkrambler and GoTrackr. We are using the virtual server to deploy our backend and frontend on the cloud. Stability and availability.
- Virtualization.
- Security.
- Diversity with types.
- Cheap.
- Swap file can be automated like in Azure.
- Mounting external storage blobs is tough and a long process.
- Firewall and security groups are limited not like Azure and Amazon.