IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

You can deploy IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on either the classic infrastructure or the VPC infrastructure. Classic infrastructure offers highly customized servers in a traditional flat network, while VPC infrastructure provides fixed-profile servers with software-defined networking.

You can provision a bare metal server on VPC in 10 minutes or less when resources are available.

Key features include workload profiles (balanced, memory, compute), advanced Intel Xeon CPUs, SmartNIC technology for enhanced network throughput up to 200 Gbps, BYOL (Bring Your Own License), rapid scaling, and network orchestration for improved security and high availability.

Pricing options include hourly, monthly, or reserved 1-and-3-year terms for reduced rates. Total pricing includes the bare metal server instance profiles, software, bandwidth speed, internet data transfers, and optional VPC services. Each component is priced separately.

You are responsible for the security of your bare metal server, including upgrading or patching the operating system to address vulnerabilities. Bare metal servers with floating IP addresses are internet-facing, so appropriate precautions must be taken.

Bare metal servers are ideal for installing a hypervisor or running real-time workloads that require physical cores, full memory bandwidth, or local storage. They offer improved security as customers fully manage the physical resources. Virtual server instances, on the other hand, share resources across an IBM-managed hypervisor and support suspend billing when powered off.

Yes, you can maximize the value of your own licensing by bringing your own license with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC using iPXE.

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC are deployed with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 processors, 4th Gen Intel Xeon Gold 6426Y processors, and 4th Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8474C processors, which are built for cloud-enterprise applications, HPC workloads, virtualization, enhanced networking, and security.