Release notes for IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers
Use the release notes to learn the latest updates to IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers for the Classic infrastructure that are grouped by date.
May 2025
07 May 2025
- Rocky Linux 8.10 support
- IBM Cloud® Classic infrastructure now supports Rocky Linux 8.10.
April 2025
29 April 2025
- NVMe OS boot drives now support Windows
- When you provision a bare metal server with Windows, you can now select an NVMe drive as the OS boot drive.
25 April 2025
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 for SAP workloads
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 for SAP workloads.
02 April 2025
- vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture (OSA) on Cascade Lake servers
- IBM Cloud® Classic infrastructure now supports vSphere 8.x and vSAN 8.x OSA on new and existing Cascade Lake servers.
March 2025
18 March 2025
- SAP Profiles on RHEL 9.4
- IBM Cloud® Classic infrastructure now supports SAP profiles on RHEL 9.4.
03 March 2025
- Add-on support for Rocky Linux
- Rocky Linux on IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports add-ons. For more information, see Rocky Linux Documentation.
January 2025
15 January 2025
- SAP profiles on RHEL 8.10
- Sapphire Rapids-based IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now support SAP profiles on RHEL 8.10.
14 January 2025
- SAP-certfied profiles
- Sapphire Rapids-based IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now support SAP-certified profiles.
November 2024
25 November 2024
- RHEL 9.4 for IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports RHEL 9.4.
- RHEL 9.4 for SAP CLX profiles
- When you provision a bare metal server, you can now select RHEL 9.4 for SAP CLX profiles.
14 November 2024
- NVMe OS boot drives now support Debian
- When you provision a bare metal server with Debian, you can now select NVMe OS boot drives.
13 November 2024
- NVMe OS boot drives now support Ubuntu
- When you provision a bare metal server with Ubuntu, you can now select NVMe OS boot drives.
October 2024
25 October 2024
- RHEL 8.10 for SAP (Cascade Lake servers only).
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports RHEL 8.10 for SAP workloads (Cascade Lake servers only).
23 October 2024
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 for SAP and SAP HANA (CLX profiles only)
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports SUSE SLES 15 for SAP and SAP HANA (CLX profiles only).
22 October 2024
- RHEL 8.10
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports RHEL 8.10.
21 October 2024
- RHEL 9.2 for SAP and SAP HANA
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports RHEL 9.2 for SAP and SAP HANA workloads.
September 2024
10 September 2024
- New add-on support for Ubuntu 22.04
- IBM Cloud® Classic infrastructure now supports cPanel, Plesk, and R1Soft for Ubuntu 22.04.
August 2024
29 August 2024
- SUSE SLES 15 SP4 for SAP
- IBM Cloud® Classic infrastructure now supports SUSE SLES 15 SP4 for SAP workloads.
20 August 2024
- RHEL 9.2
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports RHEL 9.2.
01 August 2024
- Common RAID controller
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports a common RAID controller for Sapphire Rapids-based Supermicro and Lenovo systems to help simplify configuration.
July 2024
11 July 2024
- Custom power profiles for VMware ESXi
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports custom power profiles for VMware ESXi. ESXi offers different power management policy profiles to help you adjust your performance and power proportions. For more information, Host Power Management policies in ESXi.
10 July 2024
- Ubuntu 24.04
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports Ubuntu 24.04. For more information, see Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat).
March 2024
26 March 2024
- NVMe support for RHEL, Rocky Linux, and CentOS
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers with NVMe SSD now supports RHEL, Rocky Linux, and CentOS. For more information about NVMe, see NVMe solid-state drives (SSD).
- Support for CentOS Stream 9
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers now supports CentOS Stream 9. For more information, see CentOS Stream 9.
22 March 2024
- OSNEXUS (QuantaStor) 6.2
- OSNEXUS (QuantaStor) 6.2 is now available for IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers. For more information, see IBM Cloud QuantaStor Provisioning Guide Overview.
15 March 2024
- Intel® 'Speed Select' for the Sapphire Rapids processors
- You can now select the available core count and clock speed of a 8474C processor when you order a Sapphire Rapids-based IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers.
January 2024
25 January 2024
- Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU support (Select availability)
- Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs for bare metal servers are now available in only the DAL, MAD, TOK, TOR, and WDC regions. For more information, see Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU support.
December 2023
15 December 2023
- SSL Certificate Order is deprecated
- As of 15 April 2024, the SSL Certificate Order is no longer available for purchase. As of 15 December 2024, SSL Certificate Order is no longer supported for new orders or reorders. Existing certificates that are not expired are still available for you to download, reissue, or revoke. For more information, see Deprecation of SSL Certificates.
06 December 2023
- Intel® Sapphire Rapids-based bare metal servers now support GPUs
- When you provision an Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU-based bare metal server, you can now select GPUs.
November 2023
27 November 2023
- Mirrored M.2 NVMe OS boot drives now support VMWare ESXi
- When you provision a bare metal server with VMWare ESXi, you can now select mirrored M.2 NVMe OS boot drives.
October 2023
27 October 2023
13 October 2023
- Intel SGX support for Sapphire Rapids-based Lenovo and Supermicro bare metal servers
- Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU-based Lenovo and Supermicro bare metal servers now support Intel Software Guards Extensions (SGX). For more information about provisioning a bare metal server with SGX, see Provisioning a bare metal server with Intel® Software Guard Extension architecture.
09 October 2023
- cPanel support for Rocky Linux 8 for Classic bare metal and virtual servers
- Rocky Linux 8 now supports cPanel as an add-on for Classic bare metal and virtual servers. For more information about cPanel, see cPanel.
July 2023
10 July 2023
- Mirrored M.2 SATA boot drives (VMWare ESXi only)
- You can now order mirrored M.2 SATA boot drives. To select this drive option, you need to select VMWare ESXi as the boot OS and the PCIe add-on.
May 2023
15 May 2023
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9)
- IBM Cloud® server software now supports RHEL 9 as an OS option for bare metal servers. For more information, see the Bare metal servers tab in Supported operating systems for IBM Cloud® server software.
11 May 2023
- RAID controllers to support Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs
- Two new RAID controllers are available to support Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs. For more information about RAID, see About RAID.
March 2023
28 March 2023
- Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU support (Beta)
- Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs now support Debian 11, Microsoft Windows 19 & 2022, Rocky Linux 8, Ubuntu 22.04. For more information, see Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU support.
February 2023
14 February 2023
- Ubuntu 22.04
- IBM Cloud® server software now supports Ubuntu 22.04 as an OS option for bare metal servers. For more information, see the Bare metal servers tab in Supported operating systems for IBM Cloud® server software.
January 2023
10 January 2023
- Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU support (Beta)
- You can now select an Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU when you provision a bare metal server. For more information, see Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU support.
09 January 2023
- Debian 11
- IBM Cloud® server software now supports Debian 11 as an OS option for bare metal servers. For more information, see the Bare metal servers tab in Supported operating systems for IBM Cloud® server software.
02 March 2018
- Custom bare metal servers
- IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you with performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. You can create a custom IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers. For more information, see Building a custom Bare Metal Server.