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Equinix Metal
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Equinix Metal

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What is Equinix Metal?

As part of Equinix — the world’s digital infrastructure company — we provide automated & interconnected infrastructure. Formerly Packet, now Equinix Metal™.

Equinix Metal is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Automated bare metalNative Equinix Fabric integrationAMD, Arm and Intel ConfigsSimple hourly pricing starting at $.50/hrCentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Flatcar Linux, Windows, ESXi, and FreeBSD on demandCloud-Init and Cloud-Config compatibleAdvanced network with native IPv6Bring your own IP space.

Equinix Metal Pros & Cons

Pros of Equinix Metal

  • ✓Great performance
  • ✓No multi tenancy
  • ✓Fantastic customer support

Cons of Equinix Metal

No cons listed yet.

Equinix Metal Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Equinix Metal?

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2

It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform

It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments and you can run up to thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed from the ground up to be fast, and to offer strong consistency of performance.

Equinix Metal Integrations

ContainerShip, TimescaleDB, Rafay Systems, Rancher, Google Anthos and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Equinix Metal. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Equinix Metal.

ContainerShip
ContainerShip
TimescaleDB
TimescaleDB
Rafay Systems
Rafay Systems
Rancher
Rancher
Google Anthos
Google Anthos
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Mist.io
Mist.io
Ansible
Ansible
Terraform
Terraform
VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere
Cloud 66
Cloud 66
Docker Machine
Docker Machine

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Equinix Metal Discussions

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Hari Vasudevan
Hari Vasudevan

Mar 5, 2024

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  1. Why Equinix Metal baremetal why not AWS?

  2. How fault torance in equinix baremetal? Hardware level? VM level? Who will do bios upgrade?

  3. What is equinix responsibility and customer?

  4. Who will manage vmware infrasture?

  5. Cost EBM VS AWS?

  6. If we provision a new server how long it will take?

  7. Data Replication and Backups

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