Build a bare metal server with your choice of processor(s), hard drive configuration, RAM, port speed, and more.
Select the cores, storage, and RAM you need in your virtual server, and we'll deploy it in 5 to 15 minutes.
Scale your storage infrastructure on demand while controlling your costs with SoftLayer object storage.
Get total control over your file shares function and performance with flash-backed1,2 Bluemix File Storage. Create file shares with your desired capacity—from 20GB to 12TB—and provision those file shares with a variety of flexible and power-based options while minimizing monthly costs. Take advantage of snapshots and replication3 when provisioning with Endurance tiers—
featuring simple, predefined, performance levels with simple per GB pricing ideal for most general purpose workloads. Or, build a fine-tuned environment with allocated IOPS from Performance options—ideal for businesses with well understood performance requirements. Protect your data with provider managed, encryption for data at rest.2
At rest data encryption: Protect your data with encryption for data at rest. 2
Industry leading durability: Avoid data loss during maintenance or failures without creating system-level RAID arrays.
Customizable IOPS: Meet unique storage needs and tailor assigned levels of IOPS. Stripe volumes for top performance.
Concurrent access. High availability: Mount block devices simultaneously in clustering configurations with redundant MPIO connections.
Global Footprint: Provision your volumes alongside your cloud servers in IBM Cloud data centers around the world.
View all new features in select data centers.
Add file storage to your cloud environment in any of our global data centers today by ordering shares through the customer portal to meet your needs. Choose between Endurance and Performance options:
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Hypervisor VM Storage : Host a library of virtual machine images for VMs running in your private cloud environment.
Mass File Storage : Store and share files with a cost-effective storage solution.
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Performance options
Meet and exceed rapid data changes with persistent and powerful storage features that give you more control. Pre-select storage capacities and number of IOPS per block storage volume. Provision storage up to 12TB with maximum of 6,000 IOPS. Performance options for Bluemix File Storage are ideal for businesses with predefined IOP requirements.
Virtual Desktop : Meet the demands of VDI desktop users with file shares provisioned to peak amounts of IOPS.
Big Data Analytics : Achieve the read/write speed required by big data analytics.
Digital Media : Always have content available for your creators and consumers with specific IOPS and capacities.
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File storage is an NFS-based storage solution provisioned in formatted file shares on a networked storage device and deployed in NAS environment. File-level storage is easy to use and is readily compatible with most popular operating systems. As the name suggests, file-level storage is designed to support the storing and retrieving of massive amounts of files.
Bluemix file storage shares provide enterprise-grade data performance and durability, standard. The service is built on an industry-leading storage architecture that seamlessly fuses solid-state drives—ideal for computing operations that need higher input/output operations per second (IOPS)—with flash storage—allowing near-limitless scalability while minimizing costs. Your file storage is hosted in the same data center as your Bluemix virtual and bare metal servers and shares can be replicated to other Bluemix data centers over our private network.
Bluemix file storage offerings support NFS versions 3.0, 4.0, and 4.1 (with no pNFS).
All encrypted File storage volumes provisioned in the select data centers have a different mount point than non-encrypted volumes. View the mount point information in the Volume Details page in the UI as well as access the correct mount point via an API call: SoftLayer_Network_Storage:getNetworkMountAddress() to ensure you are using the correct mount point for both your encrypted and non-encrypted file storage volumes.
Looking for a different storage option? Our block storage is also available with Performance and Endurance capabilities. Learn more about Bluemix block storage.
