Platform9 Managed Bare Metal Overview

What is PMB

Platform9 Managed Bare Metal (PMB) is a SaaS-managed Bare Metal platform that is vendor agnostic and helps you transform your bare metal physical infrastructure in your data centers, co-locations or edge locations - into an agile self-service bare metal cloud.

PMB can manage hardware through both common (eg. PXE and IPMI) and vendor-specific remote management protocols. PMB provides the cloud operator with a unified interface to a heterogeneous inventory of physical servers across diverse data center locations, and enables them to build REST API based end to end automation for provisioning, updates and other management of their bare metal stack.

Similar to the rest of the Platform9 product offerings, PMB is deployed using a unique and powerful Software-as-a-Service model, where a cloud hosted Management Plane remotely deploys, manages, monitors and upgrades your physical server environment, in your data centers, co-locations or edge locations. This deployment model enables us to guarantee 24x7x365 SLA for your physical infrastructure.

PMB is based on Ironic - an open source project to provision bare metal resources. For an introduction to Ironic, we recommend reading the Ironic Documentation.

For a better understanding of PMB architecture and how it works under the hood, please read Platform9 Managed Bare Metal Architecture.

Benefits of PMB

See PMB Benefits for more details.

Who is this documentation for?

The PMB documentation is for administrators and operators of PMB who are responsible for deploying and managing physical server infrastructure for their organization. This is not intended to be general purpose Ironic documentation. Refer here for official Ironic documentation.

Getting started

Refer to Quick Setup Guide For PMB to understand how to get started.

Understand the Architecture

Refer to Platform9 Managed Bare Metal Architecture for an in-depth understanding of how PMB works.