bare_metal_server_profile.md

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years 2021, 2025	2025-01-09		vpc

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x86-64 bare metal server profiles

{: #bare-metal-servers-profile}

When you create a bare metal server, you can select from a profile family that best fits your needs. A profile provides a different combination of hardware configurations that include the number of vCPUs, amount of RAM, bandwidth speed, and local storage size. The attributes define the size and capabilities of the bare metal server that you provision. {: shortdesc}

Sapphire Rapids (x3 and x3d) profiles are only available in Dallas (us-south) and Frankfurt (eu-de). {: preview}

About profile families

{: #profile-familiy}

Profiles are grouped by the vCPUs:Memory ratio across all the VPC compute offerings. You can choose from the following profile families:

Family	vCPU:Memory ratio	Description
Balanced	1:4	Best for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic.
Compute	1:2	Best for CPU-intensive demands with moderate to high web traffic, such as production batch processing and front-end web servers.
Memory	1:8 or 1:6	Best for memory intensive workloads, such as large caching workloads, large database applications, or in-memory analytics workloads.
Very High Memory	1:16	Best for running small to medium in-memory databases and OLAP workloads, such as SAP BW/4 HANA.
{: caption="Profile families" caption-side="bottom"}

Very High Memory profiles for Gen2 (x2) are available for customers with special approval. Contact your IBM Sales representative if you are interested in getting access. {: preview}

Profile configurations

{: #bare-metal-servers-profile-list}

Multiple profile generations are available with Intel Cascade Lake processors (x2) or Intel Sapphire Rapids processors (x3). See the following tables to see the available profile configurations.

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
bx2-metal-96x384	96	384	960	100
bx2d-metal-96x384	96	384	960 \n 25.6 TB secondary storage (allocation of 8 x 3200)	100
{: caption="Profile families for x2 and x2d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-balanced-profiles-x2}
{: tab-title="Balanced profiles for x2 and x2d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x2"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
cx2-metal-96x192	96	192	960	100
cx2d-metal-96x192	96	192	960 \n 25.6 TB secondary storage (allocation of 8 x 3200)	100
{: caption="Profile families for x2 and x2d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-compute-profiles-x2}
{: tab-title="Compute profiles for x2 and x2d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x2"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
mx2-metal-96x768	96	768	960	100
mx2d-metal-96x768	96	768	960 \n 25.6 TB secondary storage (allocation of 8 x 3200)	100
{: caption="Profile families for x2 and x2d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-memory-profiles-mx2d}
{: tab-title="Memory profiles for x2 and x2d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x2"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
vx2d-metal-96x1536	96	1536	960 \n 25.6 TB secondary storage (allocation of 8 x 3200)	100
{: caption="Profile families for x2 and x2d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-memory-profiles-vx2d}
{: tab-title="Very High Memory profile for x2d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x2"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

The 960 GB of available local storage is composed of 2 960 GB SSDs in RAID1 for redundancy. {: note}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
bx3-metal-48x256	48	256	480	200
bx3d-metal-48x256	48	256	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
bx3-metal-64x256	64	256	480	200
bx3d-metal-64x256	64	256	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
bx3d-metal-192x1024	192	1024	480 GB boot \n 61.44 TB secondary storage (allocation of 8 x 7680)	200
{: caption="Profile families for x3 and x3d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-balanced-profiles-x3}
{: tab-title="Balanced profiles for x3 and x3d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
cx3-metal-48x128	48	128	480	200
cx3d-metal-48x128	48	128	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
cx3-metal-64x128	64	128	480	200
cx3d-metal-64x128	64	128	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
{: caption="Profile families for x3 and x3d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-compute-profiles-x3}
{: tab-title="Compute profiles for x3 and x3d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
mx3-metal-16x128	16	128	480	200
mx3d-metal-16x128	16	128	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
mx3-metal-48x512	48	512	480	200
mx3d-metal-48x512	48	512	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
mx3-metal-64x512	64	512	480	200
mx3d-metal-64x512	64	512	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
mx3d-metal-96x1024	96	1024	480, 8x7600	200
mx3d-metal-128x1024	128	1024	480 GB boot \n 61.44 TB secondary storage (allocation of 8 x 7680)	200
{: caption="Profile families for x3 and x3d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-memory-profiles-mx3d}
{: tab-title="Memory profiles for x3 and x3d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
vx3-metal-16x256	16	256	480	200
vx3d-metal-16x256	16	256	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
{: caption="Profile families for x3 and x3d" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-memory-profiles-vx3d}
{: tab-title="Very High Memory profiles for for x3 and x3d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Name	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Local storage (GB)	Total network bandwidth (Gbps)
ux3-metal-16x512	16	512	480	200
ux3d-metal-16x512	16	512	480 GB boot \n 30.72 TB secondary storage (allocation of 4 x 7680)	200
{: caption="Profile families for x3 and x3d" caption-side="top"}
{: #bare-metal-uhmemory-profiles-x3}
{: tab-title="Ultra High Memory profiles for x3 and x3d"}
{: tab-group="profile-configurations-x3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

The 480 GB of available local storage is composed of 2 480 GB SSDs in RAID1 for redundancy. {: note}

Understanding the naming rule of the profiles

{: #profile-naming-rule-bm-x86-64}

The following information describes the naming rule of the profiles.

• b represents Balanced family profile - c represents the Compute family profile - m represents the Memory family profile - v represents the Very High Memory family profile.
• x represents the x86_64 CPU architecture.
• 2 represents previous generation Intel Cascade Lake processors.
• 3 represents current generation Intel Sapphire Rapids processors.
• d represents support for additional local storage.
• "metal" denotes that the profile is a bare metal server.
• The last position that contains numbers shows the amount of vCPUs and the amount of memory (GB). For example, 96x384 means that this profile has 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of memory.

Using “bx2d-metal-96x384” as an example, it's a Balanced bare metal profile with 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB memory, has Cascade Lake processors, and NVMe U.2 SSDs.

Bare metal profiles are dedicated servers that provide physical cores. vCPU measurements are used in profile naming only. vCPU to physical cores are a 2:1 ratio (e.g 96 vCPU = 48 physical cores).

Generation 3 (x3) bare metal profiles availability by region

{: #bare-metal-profile-availability-by-region-gen3}

See the following table to see what Generation 3 (x3) bare metal profiles are available by region.

Profile	us-south-dal10-a	us-south-dal12-a	us-south-dal13-a
mx3-metal-16x128
cx3-metal-48x128
cx3-metal-64x128
mx3d-metal-16x128
cx3d-metal-48x128
cx3d-metal-64x128
vx3-metal-16x256
bx3-metal-48x256
bx3-metal-64x256
vx3d-metal-16x256
bx3d-metal-48x256
bx3d-metal-64x256
ux3-metal-16x512
mx3-metal-48x512
mx3-metal-64x512
ux3d-metal-16x512
mx3d-metal-48x512
mx3d-metal-64x512
mx3d-metal-96x1024
mx3d-metal-128x1024
bx3d-metal-192x1024
{: caption="Bare metal profiles availability by region" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-profiles-americas-gen3}
{: tab-title="Americas"}
{: tab-group="profile-regions-gen3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Profile	eu-de-fra02-a	eu-de-fra04-a	eu-de-fra05-a
mx3-metal-16x128
cx3-metal-48x128
cx3-metal-64x128
mx3d-metal-16x128
cx3d-metal-48x128
cx3d-metal-64x128
vx3-metal-16x256
bx3-metal-48x256
bx3-metal-64x256
vx3d-metal-16x256
bx3d-metal-48x256
bx3d-metal-64x256
ux3-metal-16x512
mx3-metal-48x512
mx3-metal-64x512
ux3d-metal-16x512
mx3d-metal-48x512
mx3d-metal-64x512
mx3d-metal-96x1024
mx3d-metal-128x1024
bx3d-metal-192x1024
{: caption="Bare metal profiles availability by region" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-profiles-europe-gen3}
{: tab-title="Europe"}
{: tab-group="profile-regions-gen3"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Generation 2 (x2) bare metal profiles availability by region

{: #bare-metal-profile-availability-by-region}

See the following table to see what Generation 2 (x2) bare metal profiles are available by region.

Profile	us-south-dal10-a	us-south-dal12-a	us-south-dal13-a	us-east-wdc04-a	us-east-wdc06-a	ca-tor-tor04-a	ca-tor-tor05-a
cx2-metal-96x192
cx2d-metal-96x192
bx2-metal-96x384
bx2d-metal-96x384
mx2-metal-96x768
mx2d-metal-96x768
vx2d-metal-96x1536
{: caption="Bare metal profiles availability by region" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-profiles-americas}
{: tab-title="Americas"}
{: tab-group="profile-regions"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Profile	eu-de-fra02-a	eu-de-fra04-a	eu-es-mad02-a	eu-es-mad05-a	eu-gb-lon04-a
cx2-metal-96x192
cx2d-metal-96x192
bx2-metal-96x384
bx2d-metal-96x384
mx2-metal-96x768
mx2d-metal-96x768
vx2d-metal-96x1536
{: caption="Bare metal profiles availability by region" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-profiles-europe}
{: tab-title="Europe"}
{: tab-group="profile-regions"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Profile	jp-tok-tok04-a	jp-tok-tok05-a
cx2-metal-96x192
cx2d-metal-96x192
bx2-metal-96x384
bx2d-metal-96x384
mx2-metal-96x768
mx2d-metal-96x768
{: caption="Bare metal profiles availability by region" caption-side='top"}
{: #bare-metal-profiles-asiapacific}
{: tab-title="Asia Pacific"}
{: tab-group="profile-regions"}
{: class="simple-tab-table"}
{: summary="Use the buttons before the table to change the context of the table. The column headers identify the hardware class."}

Viewing profile configurations

{: #view-bare-metal-servers-profile}

You can view available profile configurations by using the UI, CLI, or the API.

Using the UI to view profiles

{: #view-bare-metal-servers-profile-ui} {: ui}

Use the following steps to view available bare metal profiles by using the UI.

1. In the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} console{: external}, go to Navigation Menu icon > Infrastructure > Compute > Bare metal servers.
2. From the Bare metal servers for VPC page, click Create.
3. On the New bare metal server for VPC page, you can view and select profiles under Profile.

Using the CLI to view profiles

{: #view-bare-metal-servers-profile-cli} {: cli}

Use the following command to list all the bare metal server profiles that are available in a region:

ibmcloud is bare-metal-server-profiles [--output JSON] [-q, --quiet]

{: pre}

Using the API to view profiles

{: #view-bare-metal-servers-profile-api} {: api}

List all bare metal server profiles that are available in a region by running the following API request:

curl -X GET \
"$vpc_api_endpoint/v1/bare_metal_server/profiles?version=2021-03-09&generation=2" \
-H "Authorization: $iam_token"

{: pre}

Next Steps

{: #bare-metal-servers-profile-next-step}

After you choose a profile, you can create bare metal servers on VPC.