Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
We use Bare Metal servers for the database and search indexing layers of our software stack because it gives us dedicated memory and disks. We can fully control the configuration and fine-tune it as needed, which results in much faster response times for our web application. Our main reason for using Bare Metal is the speed and security it provides over a cloud-based distributed database.
- Dedicated memory and disk.
- Easy to deploy.
- Configure the hardware according to your specs.
- BIOS/Firmware upgrades can take longer than expected.
- Rebooting could be faster.
- Utilization on the SSD drives rarely goes above 5%.
- Storage latency is nil because there is no network layer to traverse.
- We've been able to provide a very fast web app because of these servers.
Our database reads and writes, along with search indexing, are the most compute-intensive workloads in our stack. However, having SSDs and a significant amount of memory has reduced these tasks and our application response times to record lows. In fact, we could throw even more at these servers as they are currently underutilized.
I was surprised by how fast these servers can be provisioned. It's definitely a benefit and a good reason to use them. Historically, we would expect a bare metal server to take a few days to be provisioned.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- IBM Cloud Object Storage
The Bare Metal servers provide just one layer of our stack. On our private subnet, we have a complement of virtual servers, file storage, block storage, object storage, load balancers, and so on. IBM Cloud provides us with all of the pieces we need to deploy a full software stack.
Do you think IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers again?
Yes