Brightwork Comparison and Scoring of Bare Metal Servers

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Introduction

This is one of three modalities of server management as covered in the article Bare Metal Versus Virtualization Versus Containers.

Each of the criteria is rated below for this server modality.

The criteria of the virtualization description.

The Criteria	Criteria Definition
1. Hardware Utilization	This is how effectively loads can be optimized for the hardware.
2. Isolation	This is how the various applications and databases are isolated from others.
3. Security	This is how natural the security level is. This is without adding extra security products and therefore is the inherent security level of each security modality.
4. Network and Security	This relates to the modalities impact on both the network and the security of the network.
5. Flexibility	This is how much the applications and databases that are supported by the server modality can be copied, moved, brought up, brought down, and otherwise manipulated by the administrator.
6. Configuration Ease	This is how much technical expertise is required to configure the environment.
7. Ease of Backup	How easily can backups be created for each server modality?
8. Scalability	This is how effectively the applications and databases that are supported by the server modality can be increased in size as well as decreased in size.
9. Migratability	How easily can the applications and databases be moved within the server, as well as moved to other hardware servers or to the cloud?
10. Cross Platform	How easily can the container or VM can be moved from one OS to another.