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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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- 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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Flexible Cloud configuration management tool and the features are powerful and tje Authentication option and data security level is impressive. Isolation of network segments and the functionality on multiple data storage management the effective ability on data access control, this IBM system provides the most helpful capabilities and the load balancing features are incredible.
- Data storage management.
- Data security functions.
- Cloud computing capability.
- Network monitoring tools.
- Setting the advanced features.
- Securing multiple data.
- Handling various data storage through Cloud services.
March 16, 2024
IBM Cloud Virtual Filling Needs
There are instances where there may be hidden corrupt issues in a users machine. With the virtual workaround we can help to identify the issue by isolating the item. This allows the user to continue working while doing the testing and review process.
- The speed is very quick allowing the elimination of issues not associated with te problem
- Mirroring the users work but not interrupting what needs to be done allows for better efficiencies.
- The saving of the data quickly and efficiently allows the user and the tester to revisit the data for any updates or changes.
- I would like to a side by side screen potential in order to view the progress.
- A timer or update scale showing where we are in the review.
- I am always on the front end of the assistance so a review of the update concerning the back end would be helpful for future use.
February 06, 2024
Reliable with simple APIs
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are being used as a pilot project to extend our data center used by researchers. In other words, extra jobs that cannot be fulfilled by our data center will be offloaded to IBM VSI. Currently it is being used by one department but it will be used by the entire university once the solution is stable and goes into production.
- Fast to spawn
- Easy to configure using SoftLayer APIs
- Many flavors available
- Relatively cheap, especially for the transient instances
- The IBM Cloud Web UI is very slow and not responsive
- It would be nice to provide a direct way to choose a template image when creating a VSI
- It would be nice if transient VSIs can be resized (CPU and Mem)
We mainly rely on IBM Cloud Virtual Services as a webs server and DNS for our client's websites, as well as our own, main company website. We also rely heavily on the Virtual Server for testing new features and finding bugs before deployment.
- Manageable control of individual servers and DNS settings
- Creating different profiles or identities so users can work on separate projects
- The IBM Cost Calculator is a nice feature that shows the people at IBM have tried hard to think of extra features that B2B customers could benefit from
- Developer-friendly infrastructure
- We have not had a great experience with support. Other devs will know that it can be very nerve-racking to have clients bombarding you because of an issue that you need support's help to fix.
- Documentation could definitely be helped. Maybe a better onboarding guide?
- Dashboard is a bit slow and clunky
February 21, 2023
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We use IBM Cloud virtual servers for software development tasks, both during development and production. They are great for development time due to their fast spin up times and the isolation they can offer (so that they don't mess up production). They are also great in production because they are highly scalable and have great network performance.
- Scaling (as with any cloud provider)
- Security
- Performance
- Not as good performance as bare metal
- lack of documentation
- User interface
- cost
February 10, 2023
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is essential in every workplace
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to address several business problems that we face, such as the need for scalable computing resources, the requirement for secure data storage and access, and even the demand for high-performance computing. This service provides us with an easy-to-use platform for creating and managing virtual servers, which can be customized to meet the specific needs of our business. The main reason I use the Cloud Virtual Servers is that it helps me with the development and deployment of new applications, as well as the management of existing ones. I also use it to create virtual servers that can host our applications, providing us with the resources we need to meet the high demands of our customers and partnered Corporations.
- Host Servers
- Security of servers
- Customizability
- Reliable to stay running and always be available when needed
- For new users that use the service, it may be confusing or difficult to navigate, which can make it challenging to perform certain tasks or access certain features so maybe a work around the UI to make it beginner-friendly could help a lot.
- The cost of running the Virtual Servers can seem demanding for some workplaces that may want to utilize the servers but can't afford to do so.
February 09, 2023
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
It has hosted websites, databases, and applications, as well as development and testing environments, big data and analytics, and other applications. It was delivering on-demand adaptable and scalable computing resources, lowering capital expenditures for hardware and infrastructure, enhancing disaster recovery and business continuity, and offloading the burden of server maintenance and management to dependable service.
- Scalability: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers enable businesses to simply and quickly scale up or down the resources they require in response to changing business demands. This enables firms to respond to traffic spikes, requests for new services, or changes in business size without the need for additional hardware purchases or maintenance.
- Cost savings: By employing virtual servers in the cloud, enterprises can decrease capital expenditures for hardware and infrastructure while also lowering ongoing operational expenses by removing server maintenance and management costs. This can result in significant cost savings for enterprises, particularly those that need to raise or decrease their computer capacity fast and easily.
- High availability: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is built with high availability in mind, giving enterprises the certainty that their applications and data will be available and accessible even if hardware fails or other disruptions occur. This assists enterprises in maintaining business continuity and lowering the chance of downtime, which is crucial for firms that rely on 24/7 access to their systems. Furthermore, IBM's comprehensive network and security features aid in the prevention of data breaches and other security risks, assuring the availability and reliability of their applications and data.
- User interface: The user interface for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers can be complicated and difficult to manage, especially for individuals unfamiliar with cloud computing or virtual servers. Improving the user interface, making it more intuitive and simple to use, may assist to improve the entire user experience and make the product more accessible to a larger range of consumers.
- Customization options: While IBM Cloud Virtual Servers offers a high level of scalability and flexibility, some users have complained that customization choices are restricted, especially for those who demand more customized setups or services. Adding more customization choices and services to IBM Cloud Virtual Servers could help them better suit the needs of a broader range of companies and use cases.
- While IBM Cloud Virtual Servers provides a stable and secure platform for hosting applications and data, integration with other tools, such as development frameworks, analytics platforms, and data management systems, can be limited. Improving integration possibilities with additional technologies could help firms employ IBM Cloud Virtual Servers as part of their larger IT ecosystem more quickly and effectively.
December 14, 2022
IBM Cloud provides Linux on Z platform
Mostly for testing purposes. Proof of concepts, test features, replicate scenarios, etc.
We run backup servers or DB servers, usually running Linux and sometimes Windows
We run backup servers or DB servers, usually running Linux and sometimes Windows
- create instances running Linux OS on Z platform
- create instances running Linux or Windows OS on x86 platform
- you pay per usage
- web interface still lacks some VM features
- error reporting needs improvements. not always you get clear messages of the issue
- web interface is not as fast as the competitors
December 03, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers: Flexible and Secure Computing Options
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers enable our company to quickly and easily create and manage virtual servers in the cloud. We can use them to run our applications, test new software, and scale our infrastructure as needed. The scope of our use case is to create and manage virtual servers, and this product helps us do that. The business problems addressed by IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are the time and cost to provision and manage cloud servers. This product's ability to quickly and easily create new virtual servers reduces the amount of time it takes to get our applications up and running. And the ability to manage servers from a single console helps reduce the cost of managing our infrastructure. Overall, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers help us save time and money, which enables us to focus on our core business.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers provide an easy way to set up and manage virtual machines. It lets you provision servers instantly, scaling your computing capacity as needed. All of this happens within the IBM Cloud and it's managed by experts to ensure security and uptime.
- Virtual servers can be used for a wide variety of purposes, from developing or testing new software applications to running critical business operations. The IBM Cloud has the scale and elasticity to support a wide variety of workloads and the security and reliability to ensure your data is always safe.
- IT managers can select from a menu of images preconfigured with popular applications or machines running a customer's existing software. The self-service portal simplifies the deployment of virtual servers, storage, and networking to any user within a company—without requiring help from IT.
- It would also be nice if there were more templates to choose from when creating a server. Right now there are only a few options, and we'd like to see more variety.
- We'd like to see the ability to create server groups. This would make it easier to manage a large number of servers since we could do all of the updates and management tasks for them at once.
- There doesn't seem to be a way to automatically install updates on all of the virtual servers. We have to go in and manually update each one, which can be time-consuming. It would be really nice if automatic updates can be done.
November 30, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are the best
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host and deploy our project for instances. There was an auto scaling issue in our organization, but IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is good at that, so we don't need to worry much about that. We store our databases as well to make them more scalable and secure them on the server.
- Auto scaling
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are easy to understand, so we can save our time
- It is easy to access and manage
- The user interface need some improvement
- In home, there should be all infrastructure reports
- There should be more customization options
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
April 07, 2020
Good use of VM capabilties
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
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.