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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review Based on 10 Years Experience
Updated March 22, 2023

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Review Based on 10 Years Experience

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to host different web-based systems. It is used across the whole organization and we deploy solutions for customers/third parties on it. We mostly use virtual servers and also utilize some of the IBM Watson services.
  • API for creating/managing services
  • Datacenter location variety
  • Risk of total virtual server loss due to failures
  • Decreased cost of cloud infrastructure compared to other providers.
Transient pricing allows us to use the capacity we need when we need it, without commitment in the future.
We have not used instance reservations.
We have not used dedicated hosts.
We mostly use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. IBM provides a better choice of locations, easy to use interface and APIs for management, and better pricing compared to similar providers.
  • IBM Cloud Foundry
  • IBM Cloud Databases
Besides hosting in-house developed systems, we use some off the shelf softwares for which turned out to be good candidates for cloud foundry + managed databases in terms of cost efficiency.
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is well suited for deployment of public-facing systems that may need to scale/increase capacity at any point in time.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
7.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
5
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
9
Pre-configured templates
5
Monitoring tools
5
Pre-defined machine images
7
Operating system support
8
Security controls
9

IBM Cloud Support and Implementation

It went as expected without any unforeseen issues.
Basic (free) - We have in-house competency that helps us solve most of the issues we encounter.
Cannot provide particular example, but is often that the support agent would put extra effort to really dog into your problem and point you to the right docs or solve the issue for you directly.
Support access is easier compared to other cloud providers, but sometimes it takes a lot of time to reach the right person even if you put effort to describe the issue in the beginning.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Pricing, Time savings and Efficiency

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We did indeed reduce cloud costs for all our deployments/project by about 15% which we were able to reallocate for further product improvements.
I don’t know how much time was saved, but I know time was definitely saved
We have some automated test pipelines that do E2E integration test, including infrastructure provisioning. Hourly billing is a great fit that optimizes costs for this type of usages.
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Using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

10 - Technical staff, developers, devops.
3 - Linux administration, networking expertise, cloud expertise.
  • hosting production systems
  • hosting internal development environments
  • access to multiple datacenters in different countries/geo areas
  • convert some of the on-premise workstations to cloud for more flexibility
We have expertise, good knowledge and know what to expect from IBM cloud.

Evaluating IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC and Competitors

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Datacenter availability in some of the markets we work on.
Would not really change, IBM works good for us.
  • can’t think of any

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Training

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Reliability

It worked well for us in the beginning, it works well for us when we have more instances.
Always available when you need an instance.
Most of the instances work on hypervisors with good processors, but not all of them.

Integrating IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

As expected, it is easy to integrate VPC with any other service.
  • on premise networking equipment
Relatively easy, we had to connect our on premise networking equipment to the IBM virtual cloud networks.
  • no
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  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
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Nothing special or IBM specific.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Support

ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Kept well informed
Quick Initial Response
Escalation required
Need to explain problems multiple times