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 tenants.
These customer-specific VLANs carry all private traffic between servers in the same deployment over dual 10 Gbps interfaces (20 Gbps total per server). Because the isolation happens at the infrastructure layer rather than through software overlays alone, workloads that require strict segmentation, such as regulated data environments or multi-tier application architectures, benefit from a separation boundary enforced by the physical network fabric.
OpenMetal assigns dedicated VLANs to both bare metal and private cloud deployments. This means customers running bare metal servers alongside a Hosted Private Cloud share the same VLAN infrastructure, enabling consistent private connectivity across both environments. Network configuration, including VLAN management, IP assignment, and subnet setup, is handled through OpenMetal Central, the OpenStack API, or IPMI for hardware-level access.
Private traffic within these VLANs is unmetered and does not count toward egress billing, keeping internal communication costs predictable regardless of data volume.
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