Features - IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC

Compute, storage, networking and security

IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC offers fast-provisioning compute capacity with the highest networking speeds and most secure, software-defined networking resources available on the IBM Cloud. Deploying IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC gives you instant access to all infrastructure-as-a-service resources inside the IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Choose dedicated hosts or multi-tenant virtual server profiles with the core and RAM configuration that’s best for your workload. Your instance storage is allocated and attached at the time of provisioning. You also get fine-grained control over your virtual network and security resources for greater scaling and traffic regulation.

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Compute features

Multi-tenant profiles

Single-tenant dedicated hosts

Pre-set configurations

Each multi-tenant virtual server profile family has several, pre-set instance configurations of vCPU, RAM, GPU and networking properties to help you quickly spin up compute capacity. There are plenty of options to choose from to serve your workload requirements.

Balanced profiles

Ideal for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic. Available with Intel® TDX and Intel® SGX for confidential computing workloads in select regions.

Compute profiles

Ideal for CPU-intensive demands with moderate to high web traffic, such as production batch processing and front-end web servers. Available with Intel® TDX and Intel® SGX for confidential computing workloads in select regions.

Memory profiles

Ideal for RAM-intensive demands, such as large memory caching, in-memory analytics workloads and intensive database applications.

Very High Memory Profiles

Ideal for running high compute in-memory workloads such as SAP BW/4 HANA. These profiles offer a core-to-RAM ratio of 1 vCPU to 14 GB RAM.

Ultra-high memory profiles

Ideal for SAP HANA environments with up to 3072 GB RAM.

GPU and AI Accelerator profiles

Ideal for optimizing generative AI and traditional AI workloads.

Storage-optimized profiles

Ideal for transaction-intensive workloads — such as relational and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, search engines and data warehousing.

Storage features

IBM Cloud® Block Storage

IBM Cloud® File Storage

Hypervisor-mounted

A hypervisor-mounted, high-performance block storage volume is automatically created as a primary boot volume and attached to your virtual server instance at the time of provisioning, all backed by solid-state drives. You get 100 GB general-purpose input/output operations per second (IOPS) or 3 IOPS per gigabyte.

IOPS options

When you provision block storage for secondary volumes, you can quickly choose from predefined lOPS tiers or customize and define your own volume capacity and IOPS level.

High availability

Your block storage is stored redundantly across multiple, physical disks in an availability zone to prevent data loss due to failure of any singe component.

Encryption

You can choose how to protect your data — either by using your own root keys or IBM-managed encryption.

Networking features

The VPC network

Interconnections

External connectivity

Network orchestration

An isolated, network orchestration layer eliminates the pod boundary of virtual server instances, creating highly scalable capacity.

Multizone regions

Create multiple virtual private clouds in multizone regions available globally where, when and how you need your data distributed the most.

Virtual Network Interface

Improve the capability and flexibility of network interfaces in your VPC with enhanced VPC services integration, high-availability, multiple IP addresses, and portable interfaces.

Security features

Controlling traffic

Protected storage

Confidential computing

Security groups

Let a virtual firewall control your traffic across one or more of your virtual server instances.

Access control lists

Easily manage your inbound and outbound traffic for a subnet. Edit rules and explicitly customize based on source IP, source port, destination IP, destination port and protocol.

End-to-end encryption

Attach floating IPs to your virtual server instances for client-to-server encryption.

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