A bare-metal server is a physical server with a single tenant. That is to say, a physical server of exclusive use of the client who rents it, which is not shared with other organizations or users. Together with virtual servers, networking and storage, bare-metal servers are an essential part of the IaaS cloud service model.
Bare-metal servers features and benefits
As a form of cloud computing service within the IaaS model, bare-metal servers allow companies to delegate the cost and complexity of building and managing their own physical servers. Moreover, they offer numerous advantages, such as:
- Full control over the physical machines.
- Server customization to match workload requirements.
- High scalability.
- Predictable, high performance (without oversubscription of resources).
- Business continuity guarantees.
- Security and regulatory compliance benefits regarding the exclusive use of servers by companies.
Furthermore, as opposed to cloud servers, bare-metal servers do not have a pre-installed hypervisor. Therefore, customers have total freedom for implementing hypervisors and orchestrators. Companies can either deploy their infrastructure with a virtualization system (XEN, Docker, Kubernetes, KVM, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Citrix, VMware…) or without virtualization.
Bare-metal servers vs dedicated servers
Both terms are often used interchangeably since bare-metal servers are in fact dedicated servers delivered as a service. Nevertheless, unlike traditional dedicated servers, bare-metal servers offer shorter provisioning times and further features and benefits to companies, such as GPUs.
Bare-metal servers in Amsterdam and Madrid
Starting at 128 GiB of RAM and 12 physical cores, and going up to 768 GiB of RAM and 52 physical cores, Stackscale’s single-tenant, bare-metal servers outperform traditional on-premises and public cloud solutions.
They are fully configurable and offer a level of control that matches in-house solutions. In addition to providing predictable and consistent performance, predictable costs and 99,90% SLA Availability. Moreover, they include direct access to specialized technical support and 24/7 server monitoring for detecting hardware and connectivity failures, among many other features and advantages.
Companies can opt for different fault-tolerant, last generation data centers in Amsterdam and Madrid.
