cloud engineer
Here’s how to list Bare Metal Servers in Google Cloud Platform via gcloud.
gcloud bms instances list --region REGION --project PROJECT |
gcloud bms instances list --region REGION --project PROJECT
Result
NAME ID PROJECT REGION MACHINE_TYPE CLIENT_IPS PRIVATE_IPS STATE server-001 at-xxxxxxx-svr001 project-01 us-central1 o2-ultramem-896-metal 10.0.0.1 192.168.253.1,192.168.252.1 RUNNING server-002 at-xxxxxxx-svr002 project-02 us-central1 o2-ultramem-896-metal 10.0.0.2 192.168.253.2,192.168.252.2 RUNNING |
NAME ID PROJECT REGION MACHINE_TYPE CLIENT_IPS PRIVATE_IPS STATE server-001 at-xxxxxxx-svr001 project-01 us-central1 o2-ultramem-896-metal 10.0.0.1 192.168.253.1,192.168.252.1 RUNNING server-002 at-xxxxxxx-svr002 project-02 us-central1 o2-ultramem-896-metal 10.0.0.2 192.168.253.2,192.168.252.2 RUNNING
Obviously you can see the same from GCP’s Console.
Why would you choose Bare Metal Servers?
Advantages
– BMS are dedicated to a single organization
– Single tenant or dedicated host
– No sharing of hardware, storage, connection, bandwidth (noisy neighbor)
– There is no hypervisor layer
– No virtualization overhead
– OS is loaded straight to the server
– Results in higher performance
– Quality of hardware
– Compliance and security due to single tenant
– Flexible contract, billing options
Disadvantages
– Procurement could take weeks depending on hardware type
– And that goes for replacement hardware as well.