IBM Virtual Servers " Easy and flexible to Use Autoscaling"
November 22, 2021

IBM Virtual Servers " Easy and flexible to Use Autoscaling"

Sai karthik Satyavarapu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

We are using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for our customers for application hosting. The auto-scaling feature is most effective and helped our customers without any issues. We also use our databases on virtual servers as they are more secure and reliable.
  • auto scaling
  • Speed
  • Security
  • Cost effective.
  • Few UI enhancements required as its confusing for new users.
  • Dashboards
  • Reserved dedicated instances like AWS
  • Cost can be little bit less
  • 24x7 support which is good
  • Price of services can be little less
  • Need more customizations of Machines
  • UI Need more enhancements and customizations.
Transient pricing is good easy to calculate and make decisions on which servers can be used and performed. We mostly calculate on bulk servers so it's easy for us to choose between cloud vendors.
We mostly use for high sensitive customers in order to avoid delay of the instance. We had used this many times during the application enhancements so there should be no delay if we want the instance type immediately.
We have used dedicated hosts in the IBM cloud we haven't used auto-assign placement dedicated hosts. As we add our own security rules and configs to our servers. Overall experience is great.
The selection of Virtual servers is easy and deployments and upgrades are easy to handle compared to the IBM cloud. Firstly UI is very easy and helps us to choose and customize fast without delay in critical times.AWS has a lot of varieties in instances we can choose based on our requirement and upgrade is instance type is very fast. I don't see much instances types in the IBM cloud.
  • IBM Cloud Auto Scaling
We are using our applications for less latency for customers. The auto-scaling feature is great and easy to use.
IBM Virtual servers are used for application hosting and for migrations. We can easily scale the instances with fewer options. There should be also a customized OS from the marketplace which is lacking due to which we cannot use for all applications testing.

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC Feature Ratings

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