Reliable with simple APIs
Updated February 06, 2024

Reliable with simple APIs

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

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are being used as a pilot project to extend our data center used by researchers. In other words, extra jobs that cannot be fulfilled by our data center will be offloaded to IBM VSI. Currently it is being used by one department but it will be used by the entire university once the solution is stable and goes into production.

Pros

  • Fast to spawn
  • Easy to configure using SoftLayer APIs
  • Many flavors available
  • Relatively cheap, especially for the transient instances

Cons

  • The IBM Cloud Web UI is very slow and not responsive
  • It would be nice to provide a direct way to choose a template image when creating a VSI
  • It would be nice if transient VSIs can be resized (CPU and Mem)
  • It will reduce the time researchers have to wait to be assigned computing respources
  • It will reduce the current operational costs
  • It provides "infinite" increase of our data center
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
IBM APIs are easier to use to create, configure, and destroy VSIs.

Do you think IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC again?

Yes

The API for creating and destroying IBM VSIs is very simple compared to AWS APIs, for example. It required less configuration and it is easy to get the VSI to communicate with one another. IBM VSIs are well suited for situations where you need to control them programmatically using the SoftLayer APIs and create a cluster of nodes that communicate together with minimum configuration.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Feature Ratings

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
6.6
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
10
Dynamic scaling
6
Elastic load balancing
Not Rated
Pre-configured templates
6
Monitoring tools
6
Pre-defined machine images
2
Operating system support
10
Security controls
6

IBM Cloud Support and Implementation

They are knowledgeable, highly technical and have always resolved the issues I contacted them about. The only con is that they can take a bit long (couple of hours) to respond. I live chat option would be great.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers Pricing, Time savings and Efficiency

Using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

5 - Project management, technical leads, senior analytics developers.
4 - Computer science background with specializations in data analytics, cloud computing, networks, and data security.
  • Fast on-demand deployment
  • Test deployments
  • Environment testing
  • CI/CD runners
  • Sample web applications
  • Development sandbox
It has a flexible and affordable pricing, easy to configure and manage. It is easy to spawn one or multiple instances and have them up and running in no time.

Comments

  • Prem D'Cruz | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Prem D'Cruz
    (Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
    Thank you so much for taking the time to review. If am the Offering Manager and if there is anything I can do to help please do not hesitate to reach out

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