IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

Score7.8 out of 10

118 Reviews and Ratings

What is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC?

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are customizable, public or private, cloud-based servers available from IBM. User can launch applications and software across blended, hybrid environments as the servers integrate with all cloud models.

Categories & Use Cases

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.1
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.6
Pre-defined machine images
Range of different server configurations available
Category average: 7.8

Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 8.5
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.6
Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.9

Gabriel Hernandez

IBM Cloud Technical Specialist at CompuSoluciones (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to connect with Power Virtual Server because a lot of my clients need VPN IPsec connection and VPN for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC is easy to configure and deploy.

Pros

Scalability
Storage performance
Security
Simplicity

Cons

High throughput
Software-Defined Network
Isolation

Return on Investment

Fast deployment
Discount
SAP-certified

Alternatives Considered

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and IBM Power Virtual Server

Other Software Used

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, IBM Power Virtual Server

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization deploys software to IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC. It's one of our cloud providers, and has helped with some security issues along with normal cloud benefits.

Pros

High Uptime
Good UI
Good CLI

Cons

Ongoing tcp connection issue

Return on Investment

It's a good cloud provider

Saleem Beeravu

Chief Solution Architect in Information Technology at The ConceptZ Solutions (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We need some insurance enrollment applications with nearly 4K users once in a year for around 3 months and we find it extremely useful to host the applications on the IBM Virtual Cloud Servers.

Pros

Web Servers
RDBMS
File Servers
Reporting and Analytics applications

Cons

Firewall application
Remote Access with 2FA
Watchdog alerts

Return on Investment

We use this server regularly when we need some high volume applications and saves us nearly 80% every year in terms we of Hardware & Software upgrades
Since we can scale down after the peak usage, we save around 75% of VPC charges also as we resort to a monthly billing
Since we can provision a server almost instantly from the dashboard itself, we have full control of all aspects

Other Software Used

Dropbox, GitHub, Flutter by Google

Saleem Beeravu

Manager - IT in Information Technology at Am-Ex Insurance Brokers (India) Pvt Ltd (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it on a regular basis whenever we have the need to open up our servers to the public for yearly registrations / enrollments which happen on a yearly basis for a couple of months.

Pros

High Availability.
Ease of moving apps to cloud and back.
Easy provisioning based on load.
Repositioning is very fast and sometimes you don’t have to restart either

Cons

We need some facility to restore from a previous years backup.
India based support.
Billing with Indian local condition and Tax structure.
Should be provided with some preconfigured images for common use cases

Return on Investment

ROI is very high as our needs are met with out any addition of resources.
Meets short time requirements of bandwidth and Compute power.
Easy set up and provisioning and scaling from dashboard itself.

Other Software Used

ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Dropbox, AWS Lambda

Jeff Chow

President in Information Technology at JANDI Enterprises Inc. (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is our main server that our company uses to provide services to our libraries. It is being used as a website, email server, database, and mobile app server. The email serving part is unique to cloud servers. Most other major cloud providers (Google, AWS) don't allow creating email servers on their virtual servers. This is a key issue for us since we send email to library patrons to help them keep track their library circulations.

Pros

An email server is allowed, and in particular, on port 25.
Able to create a backup server and power it off until needed.
Reasonably priced compared to the other major cloud services.
Has lots of different locations to choose from around the world.

Cons

Don't know if this is possible, but I'd like to make a snapshot of my current server for backup purposes. Unfortunately a snapshot takes too long (too many hours), and our server can't be off for more than a few hours at a time.
Not be charged if the server is turned off. Other companies (e.g. Microsoft Azure) does not charge if server if not actually on. I do realize that IBM only charges 25% of the normal fee but I think that’s still too high.

Return on Investment

It has kept our small business going over 20 years at a reasonable cost. And allowed us to add more CPU power as we grew. So we weren't too concerned about having to change to a different platform or vendor as our list of libraries grew.

Alternatives Considered

Google Compute Engine and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio

Google Compute Engine

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Azure Virtual Machines

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC

What is IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC?

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Security controls

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Pre-defined machine images

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Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

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