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So what is the hourly cost of a z/360 micro instance?

rbanffy 5y ago
Maintenance cost for the z13 divided by 1000 VMs would be 22.48 a month. Add to that depreciation would cost 46.55 per month per VM. The machine has 2TB of RAM and this VM would have 2GB. committed to it, but CPU-wise it'd have less than a core (because you don't have a thousand cores on a z13). You can get something similar (on a z15) for free from the LinuxONE Community Cloud.
- erk__ 5y ago
  IBM clouds offering for a machine with 1 vCPU 4 GB RAM 100 GB Storage (25 GB boot, 75 GB data) is around $180/month in my local currency
  - volta83 5y ago
    Right, the article could have just done this, and compare IBM clould vs Amazon / Google / Azure for equivalently powered instances. If what the article says is true, then for a similar workload, then IBM could instances ought to be much cheaper than the competition. I only have experience with GCN, but to me it looks like GCN is much cheaper then IBM cloud, so something must be extremely off in the calculations done in the article.
  - rbanffy 5y ago
    You are mentioning the "Hyper Protect" instances. They are not directly comparable to the garden variety t3a.nano. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers The fact there is a market for them is a quite notable.
    - erk__ 5y ago
      Yeah, they are not really that comparable, but I don't think they have any other z/Architechture vps avalible at IBM (or at anyone else for that matter) so I thought that was the best comparison.
      - rbanffy 5y ago
        No. I think it's really sad. It's really hard to get Linux on POWER boxes too from them. I find it perplexing too, but I guess they don't want IBM Cloud to eat away from their high-margin SKUs.
  - jeffbee 5y ago
    If you were to specify an E2-custom instance from Google with so few resources it would only cost $46/month. So either this slice of a mainframe is 4 times more useful, or it's bullshit.
  - PaywallBuster 5y ago
    Summary 1Virtual server instance $0.106/hr 2 vCPUs 8 GiB RAM 4 Gbps Image provided CentOS Boot volume $0.018/hr 100 GB Virtual Private Cloud provided Network interface provided Apply a code Apply Please sign up to create or login before applying the promo code. Subtotal $89.35 Sustained usage discount -$7.87 Total estimated cost $81.48/mo
  - FpUser 5y ago
    Dedicated server from OVH I am renting for $175USD - 16 real cores, 128GB RAM, 2 SSDs
aww_dang 5y ago
Yes, I wish they would list the up-front costs clearly, provide a comparison between their products and have a simple checkout page.

Maintenance cost for the z13 divided by 1000 VMs would be 22.48 a month. Add to that depreciation would cost 46.55 per month per VM. The machine has 2TB of RAM and this VM would have 2GB. committed to it, but CPU-wise it'd have less than a core (because you don't have a thousand cores on a z13). You can get something similar (on a z15) for free from the LinuxONE Community Cloud.

erk__ 5y ago
IBM clouds offering for a machine with 1 vCPU 4 GB RAM 100 GB Storage (25 GB boot, 75 GB data) is around $180/month in my local currency
- volta83 5y ago
  Right, the article could have just done this, and compare IBM clould vs Amazon / Google / Azure for equivalently powered instances. If what the article says is true, then for a similar workload, then IBM could instances ought to be much cheaper than the competition. I only have experience with GCN, but to me it looks like GCN is much cheaper then IBM cloud, so something must be extremely off in the calculations done in the article.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  You are mentioning the "Hyper Protect" instances. They are not directly comparable to the garden variety t3a.nano. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers The fact there is a market for them is a quite notable.
  - erk__ 5y ago
    Yeah, they are not really that comparable, but I don't think they have any other z/Architechture vps avalible at IBM (or at anyone else for that matter) so I thought that was the best comparison.
    - rbanffy 5y ago
      No. I think it's really sad. It's really hard to get Linux on POWER boxes too from them. I find it perplexing too, but I guess they don't want IBM Cloud to eat away from their high-margin SKUs.
- jeffbee 5y ago
  If you were to specify an E2-custom instance from Google with so few resources it would only cost $46/month. So either this slice of a mainframe is 4 times more useful, or it's bullshit.
- PaywallBuster 5y ago
  Summary 1Virtual server instance $0.106/hr 2 vCPUs 8 GiB RAM 4 Gbps Image provided CentOS Boot volume $0.018/hr 100 GB Virtual Private Cloud provided Network interface provided Apply a code Apply Please sign up to create or login before applying the promo code. Subtotal $89.35 Sustained usage discount -$7.87 Total estimated cost $81.48/mo
- FpUser 5y ago
  Dedicated server from OVH I am renting for $175USD - 16 real cores, 128GB RAM, 2 SSDs

aww_dang 5y ago

Yes, I wish they would list the up-front costs clearly, provide a comparison between their products and have a simple checkout page.