Q: Are OpenMetal bare metal servers on dedicated VLANs? Yes, every OpenMetal bare metal server is placed on VLANs dedicated to the individual customer, providing hardware-level network isolation from other
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Q: Does OpenMetal support VxLAN on bare metal servers? Yes, OpenMetal supports VXLAN on bare metal servers by layering overlay networks on top of the dedicated VLANs assigned to each
Q: Can OpenMetal bare metal servers share VLANs with a hosted private cloud? Yes, OpenMetal bare metal servers and Hosted Private Cloud deployments can share the same customer-dedicated VLANs, enabling
Q: How much private bandwidth does an OpenMetal bare metal server include? Every OpenMetal bare metal server includes dual 10 Gbps private network interfaces, delivering 20 Gbps of total private
Q: What network port speeds does OpenMetal provide for bare metal and private cloud deployments? OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud deployments include within-VLAN network traffic up to 10 Gbit/s as part
Q: How is networking structured inside an OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud? OpenMetal’s Hosted Private Cloud networking is built on OpenStack Neutron, the software-defined networking layer that ships with every deployment.
Q: What networking model does OpenMetal use: software-defined, hardware VLAN, or both? OpenMetal uses both software-defined networking and hardware-backed VLANs together, a combination that distinguishes its architecture from purely software-overlay
Q: How does OpenMetal separate network traffic between infrastructure, storage, and tenant workloads? OpenMetal architecturally separates three classes of network traffic: infrastructure and control-plane communication, Ceph storage replication, and tenant
Q: What internal network throughput can I expect between nodes in an OpenMetal private cloud? Within an OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud, traffic between nodes (compute-to-compute, compute-to-storage, and control-plane communication) runs
Q: How does OpenMetal’s dedicated networking compare to shared public cloud bandwidth? The fundamental difference is physical dedication. Compare OpenMetal vs AWS On AWS, Azure, or similar platforms, the NIC