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Planning for Bare Metal Servers on VPC

Planning for Bare Metal Servers on VPC

When you are planning to create a bare metal server on IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to host your VMware® environments on x86 architecture, use the following configuration checklist as a guide.

Table 1. Planning checklist to create a bare metal server
Item Considerations
Required IAM permissions

Make sure that your account has the required user permissions. You must be assigned the Editor role of the target resource group to create bare metal servers in this resource group.

  • For x86 architecture, you also need Bare Metal Console Administrator to access the ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) and Bare Metal Advanced Network Operator to modify IP spoofing and infrastructure NAT configuration on network interfaces.
Account limits Check your account limits for concurrent resources. The maximum number of servers per account is 25.
Image
  • For x86 architecture, you can use the VMware Licensed ESXi 7.x image.
SSH key Make sure that your SSH key is available.
Location Determine what region and zone to select.
Subnet Determine which subnets that you want the server to connect to.
Profile
  • For x86 architecture, select a profile that fits your workload. Main considerations include the number of vCPU, amount of RAM, and whether NVMe drives are needed.
Naming Make sure that you use a unique name for the server.
Network interfaces

Determine how many network interfaces that you need.

  • For x86 architecture, you can attach PCI and VLAN network interfaces to support the VMware networking topology. By default, each server is attached with one PCI network interface as the primary network interface. For more information about the bare metal server network, see Networking overview for Bare Metal Servers on VPC.

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