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name: infrastructure-hub-compute-services
title: Compute services
description: Your server is the base of your infrastructure. Depending on your needs, you have various options, or you can mix it up if that's what your environment requires. Check out the following table for a summary of your compute options.
last-updated: 2024-12-16
---

> ## Documentation Index
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> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Compute services
{: #compute}

Your server is the base of your infrastructure. Depending on your needs, you have various options, or you can mix it up if that's what your environment requires. Check out the following table for a summary of your compute options.

## VPC infrastructure
{: #compute-vpc}

| Option | Description |
|--------|---------------|
| [Virtual Servers for VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-advanced-virtual-servers&format=markdown) | Scalable virtual servers for VPC that are purchased with core and memory allocations. |
| [Bare Metal Servers for VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-bare-metal-servers&format=markdown) | A bare metal server is ideal for expanding capacity of applications that benefit from elastic, quick provisioning and deprovisioning.|
| [Hyper Protect Virtual Servers](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-about-se&format=markdown#about-hyper-protect-virtual-servers-for-vpc) | Hyper Protect Virtual Servers is an IBM Cloud® service that provides highly secure virtual servers that can run Linux applications and containerized workloads. |
{: caption="Compute options - VPC" caption-side="top"}

## Classic infrastructure
{: #compute-classic}

| Option | Description |
|--------|---------------|
| [Bare Metal Servers](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/bare-metal?topic=bare-metal-about-bm&format=markdown#about-bm)  | Hourly or monthly, single-tenant servers that are dedicated to you and not shared in any part, including server resources, with other customers. |
| [Virtual Servers](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/virtual-servers?topic=virtual-servers-getting-started-tutorial&format=markdown) | Scalable virtual servers that are purchased with cores and memory allocations. |
{: caption="Compute options - Classic" caption-side="top"}

## Related services
{: #compute-related-services}

| Option | Description |
|--------|---------------|
| [Power Virtual Server](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/power-iaas?topic=power-iaas-getting-started&format=markdown) | A Power Systems Virtual Server integrates your AIX and IBM i capabilities into the IBM Cloud® experience. |
| [IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-getting-started&format=markdown) | Quickly and seamlessly integrate or migrate on-premises VMware workloads by using scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure and the industry-leading VMware hybrid virtualization technology. |
| [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-getting-started&format=markdown) | It combines Docker containers, Kubernetes technology, an intuitive user experience, and built-in security and isolation to automate the deployment, operation, scaling, and monitoring of containerized apps in a cluster of compute hosts. |
| [IBM Cloud Code Engine](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-getting-started&format=markdown) | It provides a platform to unify the deployment of all of your container-based applications. |
{: caption="Compute options - Related services" caption-side="top"}

## Next steps
{: #nextsteps3}

To continue, see [Building your infrastructure](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/infrastructure-hub?topic=infrastructure-hub-network&format=markdown) with networking services.