Oracle Bare Metal Cloud in Action

Bare Metal Cloud means non-virtualized physical compute servers, i.e., no hypervisor running to create virtual machines!

The aim of this blog post is to show you how simple it is to provision the Oracle BMC. But first here are few links on the subject that you may find useful:

– What’s Inside Oracle’s AWS-Killing Bare Metal Cloud by Craig Matsumoto
– Oracle’s infrastructure business focuses on bare metal to go after AWS by Blair Hanley Frank
– Does Oracle have a shot in the public cloud vs. Amazon and Microsoft? by Brandon Butler
– Virtual or Bare Metal Dedicated Cloud: Which Option is Right for You? by Ashar Baig
– Oracle IaaS Generation 2 by Marcel van den Berg
– Documentation: Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services
– The Bare Metal Cloud Service on oracle.com

This is how you create a Bare Metal Cloud machine in the Oracle Infrastructure Cloud (took me less than 15 minutes to connect as root from scratch):

1. First page:

2. Create the VCN (Virtual Cloud Network):

3. Launch the instance:

4. In progress (provisioning):

5. Created (36 CPUs):

6. Details:

7. Install MongoDB:

The Oracle Bare Metal Cloud is based on totally new architectural concepts, modern hardware, it is easy to provision and use and most importantly reliable and secure. In addition, Oracle BMC is supposed to be 11 times faster and 20 percent cheaper than the fastest solution offered by the competition.