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What is a bare metal server?

It’s a physical server that’s all yours. You’re the only one using
it, so you get all its power and resources, like the CPU, memory,
and storage
Bare metal servers are a form of cloud service in which the user rents
a physical machine from a provider that is not shared with any other
tenants.
A bare metal server describes a physical computer that is
dedicated to one customer. Usually, bare metal servers are
available on a rental basis from a data center provider. At OVH
cloud, we also call them dedicated servers. What separates them
from virtual servers and other server products is that the
physical metal box that contains the processor, memory and
other components is rented as a unit — or single-tenant
environment — and not shared with other customers. The
customer chooses the bare metal server’s operating system and
is able to customise the server to the specific needs of their
workloads.
With a bare metal server, because users get complete control
over the physical machine, they have the flexibility to choose their
operating system, avoid the noisy neighbor challenges of shared
infrastructure, and finely tune hardware and software for specific,
often data-intensive, workloads.
Along with virtual machines, networking and storage, bare
metal servers are a foundational component of the infrastructure-as-
a-service (IaaS) stack in cloud computing.
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Benefits of bare metal servers
The primary benefits of bare metal servers are based on the access to
users' hardware resources. The advantages of this approach include
the following:
 Enhanced physical isolation and the associated security and
regulatory benefits.
 Greater processing power.
 Complete control of their software stack.
 More consistent disk and network input or output (I/O)
performance.
 Greater quality of service by eliminating the noisy neighbor
phenomenon.
Bare metal servers have an important role in the infrastructure mix
for many companies due to their unique combination of performance
and control.
Why is it called a bare metal server?
It is called a bare metal server because it’s a physical metal server
case that contains the customer’s chosen configuration of compute,
memory, storage, software and networking components. Prior to the
advent of cloud computing, bare metal servers were the original type
of servers that organisations would traditionally buy and then set up
in a dedicated computer room.

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