What are bare metal servers

Companies are increasingly opting for the cloud to allow access to resources from multiple points. This offers companies greater flexibility, especially in these times of pandemic. One of the most popular solutions is “bare metal” or dedicated servers where the client has exclusive access to the physical hardware.

What are bare metal servers

An dedicated server Spain or the rest of the world, but as a difference than this server that only hosts one client. This term is used to differentiate it from other types of servers whose hardware is shared by several clients such as hosting or VPS.

The client has access to the L0 layer (physical hardware) and can determine the operating system it wants to run (L1 layer). Usually distributions like Citrix o VMWare, which are not purely operating systems, since they do not allow you to run software, they simply allow you to create virtual machines.

Therefore, the client is guaranteed that a bare metal server will only be accessible by it (and by those to whom it accesses). What the client does is lease a physical system with certain characteristics.

Differences between bare metal servers and housing

A few years ago, “housing” became quite popular. This practice involves the client purchasing a server and sending it to a Data Center, where it will be maintained. In this way, the client owns the physical hardware and is assured that it will not be shared. However, this has a big problem, and that is that we must make a huge outlay of money, since servers are usually expensive.

An alternative is bare metal. Here the client does not have to purchase a server or other computer equipment and send it to a data center. What is done is to rent a server with certain characteristics for exclusive use. A large number of solutions can be found on the market.

In short, bare metal offers us these advantages with respect to housing:

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• There is no server to buy, so there is no initial outlay
• The server is not our property, so in the event of any hardware problem, we will not have to take care of the repair
• Transportation costs to the Data Center are eliminated
• We can have it active in a matter of minutes
• Storage capacity can often be expanded
• There is data redundancy

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Solutions that we can find in the market

We have set our sights on OVHCloud, a highly prestigious company with Data Centers around the world. This company offers services all over the world, it even offers dedicated servers in Spain. They currently offer the following bare metal services:

• riser: They are affordable solutions based on Intel Xeon processors especially interesting for web page hosting, streaming or professional applications.
• Advance: Specially designed for small companies that require multipurpose solutions. They allow you to host an e-commerce or business tools.
• Storage: Designed for massive storage of critical data based on storage units of great power and durability. They tend to offer great read and write speeds.
• Gaming: They are solutions designed for video game creators or hosting streaming platforms.
• Infrastructure: These servers have high-speed connection and high-end components, thus adapting to the scalability needs of large companies and organizations. Mainly designed for technology companies, universities and companies that require a lot of computing and storage power.
• High range: These are very specific solutions for companies that need high computing power and heavy use. Designed especially for Big Data, Machine Learning or databases.