Bare Metal Server

A bare metal server is a physical server dedicated entirely to a single user. It allows direct access to the server’s hardware without any virtualization. This gives the user full control over every aspect of the infrastructure, including the choice of operating system, hardware configurations, and applications.

By avoiding virtualization and hypervisor overhead, a bare metal server provides the superior performance that comes with all the processing power and memory being allocated to a single tenant. The isolation inherent in bare metal servers means that users avoid the “noisy neighbor” problem, enjoying enhanced security and stability. These features make metal servers ideal for high-performance computing, large databases, or gaming servers.

Bare-metal cloud is a public cloud service where the customer rents dedicated hardware resources from a remote service provider. It offers the hardware resources without any installed operating systems or virtualization infrastructure.

Commercial cloud service infrastructure enables the virtualization and subdivision of compute, storage and database resources so that servers and storage arrays can be carved up and shared by multiple customers. But while virtualized compute instances provide flexibility and cost benefits, there are drawbacks, particularly related to resource contention — the so-called noisy neighbor problem. There are also risks from incomplete isolation of execution environments and virtual networks. Bare-metal cloud solves these issues, allocating isolated physical resources to customers.

The bare-metal-cloud is a good option for big data applications and high-transaction workloads that do not deal well with latency. Most of the largest cloud vendors, such as AWS, IBM, Oracle and Rackspace, offer bare-metal cloud services.

Bare-metal services are cloud offerings that are comparable to renting a raw, dedicated server from a managed service provider (MSP).

•             Large enterprises with resource-intensive applications.

•             High-traffic websites and ecommerce platforms.

•             Gaming companies hosting multiplayer games.

•             Organizations with stringent security requirements.

•             IT and cloud service providers.

•             Companies with stable, predictable workloads.

•             Research institutions and universities.

•             Media and entertainment companies.

•             Development and testing environments.

•             Businesses requiring hybrid IT environments.

There are both benefits and drawbacks related to a bare-metal cloud environment. It’s important to examine them carefully before deploying one.

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