# Bare Metal Instance

## **What is a bare metal cloud?**

Bare metal cloud (BMC) is a subset of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud services bucket. It is essentially a service that incorporates dedicated server hardware along with the data center networking, storage, and facility.\
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Zenlayer BMC provides customers with isolation, visibility, and control with a dedicated server. A bare metal instance looks like a classical instance (usually using virtualization) by providing customer a physical server fully dedicated to customer usage.\
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Bare metal instances are physical servers. Each instance offered for rental is a distinct physical piece of hardware that is a functional server on its own. They are not virtual instance running in multiple pieces of shared hardware.

## **Why choose Zenlayer bare metal cloud?**

### **Dedicated servers**

Physically discrete with added security and compliance, along with exclusive control.

### **Power**

Optimize your workload type: Memory, Heavy I/O, Maximum Compute.

### **Hybrid Enabled**

Deploy bare metal and easily add or integrate other clouds and services to meet future needs.

### **Compliance**

Physically separate hardware for PCI DSS compliance .

### **Managed**

Zenlayer data centers are ISO 20000 & 27001 certified with all operations following ITIL best practices.

### **Monitored**

Superior informatics, dashboards & alerts