Fully featured VPC offering
June 25, 2020

Fully featured VPC offering

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers - VPC

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

We recently started using IBM Cloud VPC to host k8s clusters for various teams. These clusters are mostly used for CI workloads, i.e. short-lived pods that do builds and run tests.

Pros

  • Easy to deploy k8s clusters of various versions.
  • Predictable pricing

Cons

  • RHEL8/CentOS8 not available.
  • No file storage, only block.
  • Unable to add UBM bare metals to VPC networks.
  • Ease of scaling up and down.
  • No need to manage hardware.
  • Cross-DC resiliency of data.
Cheaper than AWS at the scale we're using it. Otherwise, it seems to be really close when it comes to user experience. Support was also quite good, while with Amazon, a separate support plan is required.
  • IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
  • IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
Thanks to IBM Cloud we were able to consolidate multiple services at one provider and use both containerized, virtualized, and bare-metal workloads together for our CI needs.
IBM Cloud VPC is useful when using other offerings from IBM Cloud to closely integrate them. It has feature parity with other cloud vendors while maintaining competitive pricing combined with a vast infrastructure and stability.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
7.0
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
7
Elastic load balancing
7
Pre-configured templates
5
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
7
Operating system support
5
Security controls
8

IBM Cloud Support and Implementation

Did not have any problems deploying on VPC other than the limited selection of Linux distros. We use CentOS and version 8 is not available at the time of this writing although it has been out for more than a year.

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