IBM Cloud Virtual Server: Dependable and Easy to Configure
December 02, 2021
IBM Cloud Virtual Server: Dependable and Easy to Configure
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
We use IBM Cloud Virtual Servers to provide testing and production VMs for teams within our software organization. Our main use case is the need for easy to deploy servers that have good availability and that are also easy for our DevOps team to configure to suit various testing and automated testing needs.
- Fairly easy to deploy.
- Good availability.
- Flexible and easy to configure.
- Cost.
- Usability sometimes is a bit more complicated than it needs to be.
- Positive ROI on time needed to set up the virtual server.
- Easy to configure which has saved DevOps dept time.
- Some time lost to onboard new users and usability can be optimized.
It's nice that we only get charged for what we use, the pricing structure is straightforward and it's great that it's built-in and we don't have to go through reallocations in order to get more or less capacity. This makes it easy for us to bring on or obsolete test environments quickly and without incurring unnecessary costs.
It's made it a lot easier to have guaranteed resources if we anticipate that we'll need extra environments for periods of extra testing or if other teams need dedicated compute resources that are hard to acquire elsewhere.
We haven't used dedicated virtual servers yet in our organization.
- Google Compute Engine and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Overall, IBM is more expensive, but provides a lot of support for these cloud virtual servers as well as makes it very easy to configure these servers to the desired needs. The usability of IBM is sometimes not as good as others, but the availability of these servers is fairly good and reliable.