IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for high performance computing
January 13, 2020

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for high performance computing

Venkat Charan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

We are a cloud gaming based company. So we use highly-configured bare-metal servers with GPUs across the organization. We were able to utilize the entire performance of the hardware since bare metal servers are single-tenant, unlike virtual cloud servers.

Pros

  • High performance backed by single-tenant sharing.
  • Cheaper than public virtual servers by around 60%.

Cons

  • Initial set-up times are high! It's rare, but they do take around 30 hours.
  • Not a good option to run temporary workloads while scaling up.
  • We saved around 45% of our expenditure with Bare Metal Servers.
  • We had more hardware efficiency since they use a single-tenant system.
IBM Bare Metal Servers are super configurable. It's very easy to tailor them to your needs. The pricing is super cheap and they do come with included 20TB of free data transfer. For our company, we choose IBM Bare Metal Servers because they support GPU servers, unlike the competition. On the other hand, GCP and AWS are expensive and have rigidly defined bare
metal configurations.
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Bare Metal Servers are extraordinary while running calculated workloads. Let's say for example, that your business caters 1 million users a month and you need 8 servers to handle the load. When you have a clear cut requirement like this, a business can move from Virtual Cloud servers to Bare Metal servers and this will help them push out extra performance and even reduce the cloud costs by more than half. It is not well suited when you have to provision extra servers because of the temporary surge in traffic or resources.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.0
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
5
Elastic load balancing
Not Rated
Pre-configured templates
7
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
10
Operating system support
10
Security controls
7

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