IBM Bare Metal Servers work, but they make you work too... but that is just the way it is.
July 02, 2019
IBM Bare Metal Servers work, but they make you work too... but that is just the way it is.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
We use this as a compute server and a build server for deployments and dev work. It is being used by several different groups at a single client for a lot of backend management and monthly/quarterly intensive compute jobs. It addresses the business issue that Cloud Foundry or virtual boxes do not have enough CPU power as well as a dedicated place for specific tasks.
Pros
- Very good for compute
- Reliable because it is always up and not shared
- Easy to set up and get running
Cons
- Very slow to provision
- Understanding billing is tough and takes a month to really see what your usage is
- Limited compute options.
- Good ROI for compute intensive Batch jobs
- Reliable for intensive build jobs
- Slow to provision. If you need it you have to wait.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
In general we have found that the provisioning and permissions and switching between instances of bare metal and virtual machines were easier in AWS than in IBM. Also the billing in AWS has much greater transparency. The UI interface is also easier to navigate and understand. we also found that our users liked them better.
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