Bare Metal Solution
5.6/10Google Cloud service that provides dedicated, single-tenant physical servers in regional extensions for Oracle and other specialized enterprise workloads, connected to Google Cloud.
Data last updated November 2026 · Our methodology
Overview
Bare Metal Solution is a Google Cloud service for workloads that are hard to move to virtual machines, mainly Oracle Database. Google runs certified physical servers in regional extensions next to its cloud regions and connects them to a customer's VPC through a Google-managed Partner Interconnect VLAN attachment pair. Servers range from general-purpose o2-standard machines up to memory-optimized o2-ultramem systems with as much as 24 TB of memory. Storage is Fibre Channel or NFS volumes on SSD or HDD, sold in 1 TiB increments. Google's documentation lists 12 regions across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. The service suits large enterprises that want to keep bring-your-own Oracle licences on physical cores while running applications in Google Cloud. A licensing consultancy calls it the cleanest way to run Oracle on GCP, because there is no virtualization layer that could create soft-partitioning exposure. Pricing is not published. It is a subscription ordered through Google Cloud Sales and billed monthly on the normal Google Cloud bill, and early coverage cited a preferred 36-month term. Traffic between the servers and Google Cloud in the same region was reported to have no ingress or egress charge. The SLA sets a 99.9% monthly uptime objective per covered server. Google takes a daily boot-volume snapshot and keeps it for seven days. The main limitation is that Google manages only the hardware and network. Customers own OS licensing, patching, security, hypervisors and database administration, volumes cannot be expanded after provisioning, and large deployments have historically taken weeks to provision.
Our Rating
Who Bare Metal Solution is best for
Good fit
It is built for large Oracle and SAP-class workloads on multi-year subscriptions with high-memory servers.
Google says it supports PCI DSS compliance and offers single-tenant hardware for legacy database estates.
Customers' IT teams must manage the OS, patching and databases themselves.
Less suited
Google states HIPAA compliance support for the dedicated servers.
Pricing goes through sales, terms run multiple years and costs are at enterprise scale, which does not suit small young companies.
There is no self-serve entry point, and a single Oracle-sized deployment costs far more than a small business budget.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Single-tenant physical servers let Oracle BYOL be counted on physical cores, with no soft-partitioning risk.
- Low-latency, Google-managed interconnect to Google Cloud services, with no reported same-region transfer charges.
- A wide range of server sizes, including an 8-core option for licence right-sizing and up to 24 TB memory systems.
- A 99.9% uptime SLO per server, with credits of 10% to 50% of the monthly bill when it is missed.
- Available in 12 regions across four continents.
Cons
- No public pricing; every deployment goes through sales on a multi-year subscription.
- Customers handle OS licensing, patching, security and database administration; Google manages only the hardware and network.
- Storage volumes cannot be expanded after provisioning, and jumbo frames are not supported on VLAN attachments.
- Production deployments have historically needed four to eight weeks of lead time.
- Very few public user reviews (G2 lists only 4).
Key Features
Not included
- Managed WordPress
- Shared Hosting
Bare Metal Solution Pricing
Bare Metal Solution subscription
- 200 GB boot storage per server
- Priced through Google Cloud Sales
- Billed monthly on Google Cloud bill
- Volumes in 1 TiB increments up to 16 TiB
- 99.9% monthly uptime SLO per covered server
- Multi-year term (36 months preferred per 2019 coverage)
- Server types from o2-standard-16 to o2-ultramem-896-metal (24 TB memory)
Frequently Asked Questions
Google publishes no list prices. It is a subscription arranged with Google Cloud Sales and billed monthly on the Google Cloud bill, and early coverage cited a preferred 36-month term. Oracle licences and support are paid separately.
The SLA sets a 99.9% monthly uptime objective for each covered server. Credits range from 10% to 50% of that server's monthly bill, and customers must request them within 30 days.
The customer does. Google manages the hardware, the interconnects and the regional extension. Customers are responsible for OS licensing, configuration, patching, security, any hypervisor, and the database.
Google takes a daily boot-volume snapshot and keeps it for seven days. Data-volume snapshots are optional and reserve 20% of the volume. For Oracle databases, Google recommends using RMAN.
Google's documentation lists 12 regions: Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Eemshaven, Montreal, Toronto, Iowa, Virginia, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. Other regions are available by request through sales.
Oracle counts the server's physical cores multiplied by the 0.5 Intel core factor. Customers bring their own licences, and Oracle's Support Rewards programme does not apply.
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