Reserve access at the best rates.

For the best rates, and to help ensure that new virtual machines will be provided when you need them, choose our reserved capacity package option.

Reserved capacity

Reserved capacity packages are pools of virtual machine resources. You can provision and de-provision any combination of virtual machines within your reservation package pool limits for a 6- or 12-month period. A pool consists of one or more units of capacity. One reserved capacity unit includes:

• 64 virtual CPUs
• 96 GB of memory
• 9,600 GB of storage

You may order as many reserved capacity units as you like. You pay a monthly fee for the reservation, but get discounted usage rates on the virtual machines you provision within the pool limits. You are not committed to use or pay for a fixed number of virtual machine hours during the 6- or 12-month period.

Examples of reserved capacity packages

Package examples	Reserved virtual CPUs @1.25 GHz	Reserved virtual memory	Reserved virtual storage	Commitment period
1 reservation unit	64	96 GB	9600 GB	6 or 12 months
8 reservation units	512	768 GB	76800 GB	6 or 12 months
30 reservation units	1,920	2,880 GB	288000 GB	6 or 12 months

Unreserved virtual machine instances

If you do not reserve capacity, virtual machines will be provisioned as they are available in the IBM cloud data center you have chosen. You only pay for what is provisioned.