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Updated on 2023-07-10 GMT+08:00

What Are the Differences Between BMS and Dedicated Host (DeH)?

Both BMS and DeH allow you to exclusively use physical servers but they have the following differences:

  • BMS uses the bare metal architecture and does not provide a virtualization platform by default. You need to install virtualization software on a BMS before you provision an ECS on it.
  • DeH provides a virtualization platform by default. After purchasing a DeH, you can directly provision ECSs on it.

For more information, see Table 1.

Table 1 Comparison between BMS and DeH

Item

BMS

DeH

Whether virtualization is provided

No

Yes

How to use

Use each BMS as a physical server.

Provision ECSs on a DeH.

Specifications

BMS specifications

DeH specifications and ECS specifications

Image

BMS images

ECS images