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Disadvantages of Bare metal
Like all hosting infrastructure options, bare metal has a few disadvantages:
 Instance limitations: When compared to virtualized instances, bare metal servers have
restrictions regarding the types and sizes of instances available.
 Backup challenges: Hypervisors capture snapshots of the VM’s memory space allowing
for ease of backup. Bare metal servers don’t have this feature. Duplicating machine
images to be used as the backup and can be quite difficult to do. Additionally, bare metal
doesn’t support recovery from tape drives unless the tape drives and the BMR software
are from the same manufacturer.
 Complexity: Bare metal processes can be intensive often relying on a third party
operating system to make configurations.