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IBM VPC Gen 2 is good, but not great
December 11, 2020

IBM VPC Gen 2 is good, but not great

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers - VPC

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

We currently use it for about 30% of our SaaS infrastructure and in the process of migrating our remaining IBM Classic Infrastructure. It allows us to automate provisioning of both network and compute resources.
  • Good number of regions and zones
  • Simple security groups
  • Fast provisioning
  • No support for building custom images with e.g. Hashicorp Packer
  • IBM support in general is not great
It's well suited for quickly spinning up environments with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform. It's not well suited for autoscaling due to lack of support for automatically building images.

Overall Satisfaction Continued

  • No impact
We have a long history with IBM through various acquisitions, but their VPC lacks support for industry standard automation tools like Packer. So while it mostly works the experience could be better.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
8.0
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
8
Dynamic scaling
6
Elastic load balancing
8
Pre-configured templates
Not Rated
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
10
Security controls
8

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Implementation

Implementation went mostly smoothly, but documentation and support is sometimes lacking.