What Are the Differences Between DeHs and BMSs?¶
Bare metal servers and dedicated hosts are physically-isolated servers dedicated to individual tenants. Their differences are as follows:
DeH: A dedicated host is fully exclusive for your ECSs, but cannot be directly used for running workloads. You can deploy ECSs for running workloads on a dedicated host.
BMS: A BMS is used as a server and can be directly used for running your services.
Figure 1 Differences between DeHs and BMSs¶
Item | DeH | BMS |
|---|---|---|
Virtualization provided | Yes | No |
Usage | Provisioning of multiple ECSs on a DeH | Used as a whole server |
Supported specifications | Specifications of physical servers running DeHs and supported ECS specifications | Only BMS specifications |
Supported images | ECS images | Only BMS images |