IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on VPC Infrastructure are dedicated bare metal servers that provide enhanced networking and connectivity via virtual private cloud (VPC) capabilities. They’re available now as an integrated part of IBM Cloud®.
Many companies want physically dedicated hardware for security and performance, but with the ability to define, secure and manage networks using familiar public cloud concepts. IBM Cloud Bare Servers on VPC Infrastructure brings together dedicated infrastructure with multizone regions and software-defined, private cloud.
- Deploy from a software-defined cloud across multizone regions in 10 minutes or less
- Expand capacity of modern apps with elastic provisioning and de-provisioning
- Launch enterprise solutions for VMware, Red Hat OpenShift and SAP with preset profiles featuring Intel® Xeon® processors for heavy memory and compute needs
- Get the full suite of IBM Cloud VPC networking benefits and 4x-faster networking throughput (up to 100 Gbps)
- Pay as you go, by the hour
Get USD 1,000 in credits to use toward any of your new VPC resources—including all compute, network and storage components.
IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC wins Best Cloud Infrastructure for 2022–23
The industry’s newest SmartNIC has landed on IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC, and brings with it updated hardware and firmware for improved networking, storage, and security. Customers get greater instance-like performance and connectivity to more IBM Cloud services without having to change or add a thing.
Compute: cx2-metal-96x192
96 vCPUs
192 GB RAM
100 Gbps bandwidth
1 x 960 GB local disk
Balanced: bx2d-metal-96x384
96 vCPUs
384 GB RAM
100 Gbps bandwidth
1 x 960 GB, 8 x 3200 GB local disk
Balanced: bx2-metal-192x768
192 vCPUs
768 GB RAM
100 Gbps bandwidth
1 x 960 GB local disk
Deploy bare metal servers to multizone regions and use floating IPs.
Get up to 100 Gbps across general purpose bare metal servers.
Use the REST-based API that’s aligned to industry norms, with easy integration into existing tooling.
Extend your IP addresses to dedicated PCI and VLAN interface. Keep granular control over which applications can access your resources.
Effectively maintain your regulated environment with support for KYOK, BYOK and the highest level of FIPS certification.
Strengthen fault tolerance and help keep key specific workloads from being under-utilized or over-utilized.
How it's used
Features
Get 4x faster network throughput up to 100 Gbps.
An isolated, network orchestration layer eliminates the pod boundary.
Establish internal or external private network connections.
Ideal for CPU-intensive demands with moderate-to-high web traffic, such as production batch processing and front-end web servers
Ideal for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic
Ideal for RAM-intensive demands, such as large memory caching, in-memory analytics workloads and intensive database applications
Add a secondary, local NVMe drive (JBOD 3.2TB NVMe u.2).
Specify an IOP tier to help avoid bottlenecks.
Implement local disk boot storage on redundant solid-state drives (SSDs).
Employ highly available private virtual networks with security-rich capabilities integrated into the compute, storage and subnet levels.
Control traffic for one or more bare metal servers with a collection of rules that act as your own virtual firewall.
Attach a floating IP so nothing in the connection path forces a decryption to your bare metal server.
- 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8260 CPUs
- 10-minute rapid provisioning
- Multiple SAP and VMware-certified solutions
- 100 Gbps uplinks with SmartNIC technology
- Secure boot and Trusted Platform Module 2.0 for enhanced security
- Security groups and network access control lists (ACLs)
- Create multiple private clouds in multizone regions (MZRs)
- Available in preset compute, balanced and memory profiles
- All NVMe-based secondary storage: 16x JBOD 3.2 TB NVMeu.2 local options
- VMware ESXi 7.0
- RHEL 8.4, 8.6
- RHEL for SAP
- SUSE RHEL for SAP
- Ubuntu 18,20, 22
- Debian 11
- Windows 2016/2019/2022
- CentOS 7.9
- CentOS Stream 9
- Custom Images
- us-south (Dallas)
- us-east (Washington, D.C.)
- eu-de (Frankfurt)
- ca-tor (Toronto)
- eu-mad (Madrid)
- eu-gb (London)
Explore all provisioning instructions, tutorials, how to’s, and reference architectures
New SmartNIC brings exciting changes to IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers VPC
Watch how to order a bare metal server for VPC featuring Intel Xeon 8260 scalable processors and how to attach a floating IP.
See how to create IBM Cloud VPC with multiple subnets to support vSphere networking and the provisioning of a VMware vSphere.
Learn how to connect VMware ESXi after your bare metal server is running to keep your network in a secure cloud environment.
Explore reference diagrams, related code solutions, advanced courses, and more.