Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is used as a development environment. We are working on learning IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Pak for Automation. The environment is intended to be used for customer demos with our products.
- Creating Virtual Private Cloud and virtual server instances was quick and easy, saving us time.
- Documentation for setting up networking was easy to follow.
- IBM Cloud Command Line Interface allowed us to script repetitive tasks.
- The documentation and integration between OpenShift and IBMCloud was not clear. It took some time to figure out which interface to use to setup certain items.
- Better communication between departments could be improved. Had a billing question and had two departments saying it was the other team's issue. Took three days of back and forth to resolve.
- The documentation for loading containers into IBM Cloud OpenShift container registry was not clear. The correct commands were not documented.
- Future readiness--we have the ability to quickly respond and build custom demos for customers in a short timeframe.
- Savings on hardware--we have the ability to spin up large workloads to demonstrate to customers the performance of our tools and IBM Cloud.
IBM's documentation and support for IBM Cloud for IBM Cloud Pak for Automation was stronger than with Google Cloud.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- IBM Cloud Container Registry
- IBM Cloud Object Storage
- IBM Cloud Managed Knative
Being able to leverage the other IBM Cloud offerings with VPC allowed us flexibility in building a robust migration application. In addition it is enabling us more options for add-on solutions for IBM Cloud Pak for Automation.