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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
● Part of the IBM Cloud IaaS model is the IBM Cloud Virtual Servers service, also known as Virtual
Machines.
● When a IBM Cloud Virtual Server is created, you can choose between multi-tenancy or single-tenancy
environments, and also high-performance local disks or enterprise SAN storage.
● IBM Cloud is the successor of two joined technologies - the IBM mainframe and virtualization:
○ It uses IBM z/VM and IBM PowerVM (hypervisors) to manage its own virtual workload.
○ Users are allowed to choose between XenServer, VMware, and Hyper-V hypervisors when
managing bare-metal instances.
● Users are able to manage different server aspects, such as profile, image, software package add-ons,
attached storage, network interface bandwidth, internal and external firewall rules, IP addresses, and
VPN.
● Four supported types of virtual servers: Public, Dedicated, Transient and Reserved.
● Profiles specify the size of the virtual server and are associated with predefined resource amounts
that the servers get launched with.