IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers deliver dedicated, single-tenancy performance, security and control with over 10 years of industry excellence in uptime availability, reliability and customer care. Push your heaviest workloads to production with the latest 4th Gen Intel® Xeon or AMD® CPUs, extend your AI applications with Nvidia GPUs, and de-risk your enterprise deployments with SAP and VMware solutions. Whether you’re moving to cloud or charting your existing path forward, IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers offer you a path forward with plenty of configuration options, billing flexibility, and partner resources.
Many companies looking for cloud infrastructure want the security and performance of dedicated hardware but also the experience—particularly around the provisioning, billing and management of cloud services. IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are dedicated, single-tenant servers that can be provisioned and used in hourly and monthly billing increments. IBM also offers certified infrastructure for some of the most common and demanding enterprise workloads.
- Bare Metal Servers are available in hourly or monthly increments
- You get the latest-generation NVIDIA GPUs and x86 microarchitecture from Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC
- Multiple Bare Metal Servers can communicate on the IBM Cloud virtual private network as if stationed on the same rack
Enterprise workloads
For many companies moving to cloud, charting a path forward for their existing applications and infratsructure is a significant part of the task. To support these organizations, IBM offers SAP-certified and VMware-certified infrastructure. This infrastructure is designed to help companies accelerate their migration and modernization journeys.
Intel and IBM are committed to helping customers modernize and secure their HPC workloads.
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Popular bare metal server configurations for traditional workloads
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No-hypervisor, single-tenant servers with VMware, SAP, Red Hat and Ubuntu options on a software-defined cloud that you control.
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
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4 cores, 3.80 GHz
16 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
20 TB bandwidth*
20 cores, 2.20 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
20 TB bandwidth*
Scale to player demands quickly. Tailor rules, install updates, isolate players and get low latency.
20 cores, 2.20 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
20 TB bandwidth*
48 cores, 2.40 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
20 TB bandwidth*
Solving complex problems faster while consuming less power, they’re ideal for ML, video editing and gaming.
20 cores, 2.20 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
NVIDIA T4 Graphics Card x 2
40 cores, 2.50 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
NVIDIA Tesla 16 GB V100 Graphics Card x 2
Stream large files and videos. Spec out and duplicate clustered web hosting servers to match requirements.
4 cores, 3.80 GHz
16 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
20 TB bandwidth*
20 cores, 2.20 GHz
32 GB RAM
1 TB SATA x 1
20 TB bandwidth*
Direct access to compute resources and hardware-level performance provides control and security.
You get the latest-generation NVIDIA GPUs and x86 microarchitecture from Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC.
Become operational quickly across 60 data centers and PoPs in 9 regions and 18 availability zones.
Launch our bare metal and virtual servers in the same environment over the same private VLAN.
Choose your tools; integrate with providers and partners of your choice, at your convenience.
Choose the billing cycle option that works for you: on-demand hourly, monthly or contract-term.
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Customize and deploy your IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers on the IBM Cloud infrastructure of your choice. Both deployments are dedicated to you, and in your complete control.
Customize your bare metal server with 11M+ different configuration combinations and get 20 TB of cost-free bandwidth. Choose the latest Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC CPUs. Ideal for large, steady state, predictable operations.
Choose a pre-set bare metal server profile and deploy to multiline regions in 10 minutes or less across a software-defined network. Features the latest Intel Xeon processors. Ideal for high-availability and maximum-elasticity demands.
Not sure which bare metal server deployment is right for your unique workload requirements? This short video explains the differences between IBM Cloud classic and VPC environments as they relate to bare metal server provisioning options and network placement.
Customization comes with IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
- Modernize with VMware Cloud Foundations, and simplify end-to-end SAP deployments.
- Select the latest Nvidia GPUs and CPUs from Intel and AMD.
- Choose where and how your data runs with 60+ data centers across fault-tolerant availability zones.
- Launch bare metal and virtual servers in the same environment over the same private VLAN.
- Choose your tools and vendors; integrate with providers and partners of your choice, at your convenience.
- Choose the billing option that works for you: hourly, monthly or reserved 1-and-3-year terms for reduced rates
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Explore how you can achieve impressive storage advancements, including SSD performance, with bare metal servers.
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Servers with cutting-edge GPUs can handle complex compute-intensive workloads—from analytics and graphics to energy exploration and machine learning.
Accelerate SAP ERP modernization with security, performance and choice for your bare metal server deployments.
New 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor technology and dynamic network bandwidth features.
Intel and IBM Cloud bring processor and security enhancements to IBM Cloud Bare Metal and Virtual Servers.