OVHcloud Bare Metal Server Review – Budget Line
✅ Pros:
- Cheap Price/Performance
- Easy to get used to management console
❌ Cons
- Not available in all regions
- Hardware Quality/Age
Architecture
You can choose anyone OS like Ubuntu, Windows …etc. I used Proxmox to create and manage VM (KVM virtual solution).
This baremetal has only one NIC, so use iptables to create another network for VM and setting ip forward.
auto VMNET01
iface VMNET01 inet manual
bridge-ports none
bridge-stp off
bridge-fd 0
bridge-vlan-aware yes
bridge-vids 2-4094
address 10.0.50.1/24
post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '10.0.50.0/24' -o enp3s0 -j MASQUERADE
post-down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s '10.0.50.0/24' -o enp3s0 -j MASQUERADE