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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.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 118 ratings of IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC's features
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Top Performing Features

  • 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

Areas for Improvement

  • 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

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC.
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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC is my best friend

Incentivized
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

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Incentivized
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

VPC server on IBM Cloud usage review

Incentivized
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

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Incentivized
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

One of the few ways to get out emails in an economical way

Incentivized
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

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