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{{site.data.keyword.BluVirtServers}} are scalable virtual servers purchased with dedicated cores and memory allocations. They are a great option if you are looking for compute resources, that can be added in minutes, with access to features like image templates. The hypervisor is fully managed by IBM and you can perform configuration and management tasks by using both the Customer Portal and the Softlayer APIs. Virtual servers are deployed to the same VLANs as physical servers, allowing you to spread workloads across virtual servers and bare metal servers, while maintaining interoperability. Virtual servers are fully customizable when you order them, with options to scale up as your compute needs grow. {:shortdesc}
You can choose from hourly or monthly billing, public (multi-tenancy) environments or dedicated (single-tenancy) environments, and high performance local disks or enterprise SAN storage.
The following information lists the key features included with virtual servers.
{{site.data.keyword.BluVirtServers_short}} are deployed to the same pod and network as bare metal servers and network appliances. This gives you the flexibility to utilize the best technology for each workload. Multiple virtual servers are commonly deployed behind a load balancer to serve web traffic. These servers can have direct layer 2 private network access to bare metal database servers and other more intensive workloads.
You can build-to-suit any virtual server with a number of options. There are no pre-defined package requirements, so you can tune each server to the workload it supports.
Virtual servers are provisioned in as few as five minutes, giving you minimal wait time between order and provisioning.
Like all of our services and solutions, you have the ability to manage your virtual servers remotely. View and manage all of your device details by using the Customer portal or APIs. You can also interact with the server through the provided KVM functionality or log into the server with full administrative control through the public or private interfaces.
After your virtual server is provisioned, you can quickly and easily scale your instance up or down and add or remove additional instances on demand. You can take an image template of the server once it is configured and tuned, and then create additional virtual servers based on that original image.