What is a characteristic of both a bare metal server and a virtual server?

A characteristic of both a bare metal server and a virtual server is that they are provisioned with default storage that typically includes local drives. Both types of servers provide storage options that can be either directly attached (local storage) or set up through networked and cloud storage solutions, depending on the specifications of each server type and the cloud provider's capabilities.

Bare metal servers offer dedicated physical hardware, which often comes with local drives that are used for operating systems, applications, and data storage without the overhead of a virtualization layer. Virtual servers, while running on underlying physical hardware (including local drives), often share these resources with other virtual instances. Regardless of this sharing, virtual servers typically also provision local storage by default as part of their setup, alongside the possibility to connect to additional storage options.

In contrast, the other options do not accurately capture a shared characteristic between bare metal and virtual servers. They may apply to one or the other, but not both uniformly. For instance, cloud-native architecture is more focused on applications designed to take advantage of cloud computing features, dynamic resource allocation typically refers to the adjusting of resources in virtualized environments (which is not applicable to bare metal servers), and operation in a virtualized environment explicitly applies to virtual servers only, hence