Bare-Metal Infrastructure

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Bare-Metal Infrastructure consists of physical computing resources on which an operating system, platform, or workload operates without an intervening server-virtualization hypervisor.

Bare-Metal Infrastructure can include:

• Physical servers
• Processors and memory
• Local and attached storage
• Physical network interfaces
• Network switches and supporting network services
• Hardware security devices
• Accelerators and specialized processing devices
• Firmware and hardware-management interfaces

Bare-Metal Infrastructure can exist within an organization-controlled data center, colocation facility, edge location, laboratory, secure facility, or Cloud Provider environment.

Within Crucible, Bare-Metal Infrastructure can serve as a Deployment Platform on which Crucible provisions operating systems, platform software, security controls, compliance controls, and supporting services directly onto physical computing resources.

*physical computing infrastructure on which an operating system, platform, or workload operates without an intervening server-virtualization hypervisor*

• IBM, Bare Metal Server Options
• IBM, What Is a Bare-Metal Server?

Bare-Metal Infrastructure does not necessarily mean infrastructure located on premises. A Cloud Provider can provide dedicated bare-metal servers as a managed or on-demand service.

The absence of a server-virtualization hypervisor does not prohibit container runtimes, operating-system virtualization, orchestration platforms, hardware-management controllers, or other software layers.

Bare-Metal Infrastructure can host Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform or another platform layer.

Crucible provisions an approved operating-system image, network configuration, storage configuration, security controls, compliance controls, and platform services directly onto a physical server without first creating a virtual machine.