Item: IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Rating: 6
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to run custom Ubuntu servers. The entire company's dashboard application, which supports both clients and our own operations, is run through these servers. We needed IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers to run our custom stack back in 2014, and we have been utilizing them ever since.

Pros and Cons

Extremely high reliability
Monitoring was easy to setup
Internal networking is fast

Maintenance takes Bare Metal offline at unusual times
Support is not always reachable
IBM Cloud Dashboard is not the fastest

Return on Investment

Highly reliable; we operate at all times of the day
Maintenance without warnings has created business continuity issues
There was a severe outage in mid 2020 for five hours that cost us 40 man-hours to fix

IBM Bare Metal Servers High Performance

We run Elasticsearch using these machines, and it performs great. We have zero complaints with the performance of the machines in regard to being able to handle large loads of client and end-user data. The security of the IBM Cloud allows us to enhance our datasets with the mindfulness of knowing that our data is secure.

IBM Bare Metal Servers Provisioning

It is a bit slower than what I am used to with AWS, Azure, and even Hewlett-Packard.

Other Software Used

Elasticsearch, React, iOS, PyCharm, Atom, Amazon Route 53, Terraform, Vagrant

Likelihood to Recommend

I think as a commodity provider, IBM's offering is just fine, nothing too great or bad about it. It's ideal for scenarios where a company doesn't want to offload specific services to IaaS because of the upgrade or support issues. It is low maintenance if you have solid devOps to set up the machines. I don't think it's appropriate for businesses that want to utilize IaaS as a Management solution.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers, not the best, not the Worst

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers