Yandex BareMetal overview
In Yandex BareMetal, you can lease a physical server with all its hardware resources provisioned for your individual use.
To create and conveniently operate an infrastructure relying on leased physical servers, BareMetal provides users with all the required tools to manage the servers and their network’s settings.
A system of flexible quotas and resource limits defines how many servers, networks, and how much space for custom OS images are available for each user.
Servers
You can order servers of the following configurations:
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Stock configuration: Get a ready-to-use server with or without an OS in minutes. Choose a server from dozens of configurations for typical tasks and workloads.
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Custom configuration: Use our builder to create a server optimized for your load profile from available server components and get your new server in 4 days' time.
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On-request configuration: If looking for a server for a variety of scenarios and workloads, apply for an on-request configuration.
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You can lease servers for a period from one day to a year. When ordering a server, you can install an OS from ready-made Marketplace images or use your own distribution for installation by uploading it to Yandex Object Storage. You can also configure public and private IP addressing, SSH access, and server backup policies using Yandex Cloud Backup.
Network
All servers have multiple physical network interfaces connected to the public internet and to a private network through different, independent switches which make up a single IP fabric with the spine-leaf topology.
In the public network, each server is allocated one public IPv4 address free of charge. You can also lease blocks of dedicated public subnets of varying sizes and use them to assign addresses to servers. For servers with 10 and 25 Gbps network cards, you can select a daily internet traffic package.
In a private network, you can group servers at different levels through private subnets (L2, VLAN 802.1Q) and use routing to join them into a VRF (L3). If required, you can assign multiple private subnets to a single server port (L2, trunk-port 802.1Q) or add static routes to the VRF.
To ensure stable operation of all networks, BareMetal has a number of limits.
BareMetal servers can use a private network to access your cloud infrastructure or other Yandex Cloud services with the help of Cloud Interconnect, which allows you to combine your physical servers and cloud infrastructure into a single L3 network. This way, you can implement different scenarios for your infrastructure, e.g., use physical servers as Managed Service for Kubernetes nodes or as dedicated data storage.
Setup and management
You can access the server using a KVM console or over SSH. You can also manage servers using the CLI and API.
To configure, manage, and audit actions with objects, BareMetal provides the following tools: the Yandex Cloud management console, CLI, and API. You can get audit logs of your operations using Audit Trails, and manage roles and accesses via Identity and Access Management.
Quotas and limits
Quotas restrict the number of available servers, networks, and images. Also, certain limits apply to networks.