OpenMetal Network Port Speeds for Bare Metal and Private Cloud

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 of the standard deployment, covering both public and private IP traffic inside the cloud’s network plane.

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There is no separate throughput charge for internal east-west traffic between nodes, VMs, or storage — that capacity is included. The 10 Gbit/s figure applies to within-VLAN traffic on both public and private IP space, and no metering applies to traffic that stays inside the private environment.

For bare metal, each server connects directly to the network fabric on dedicated uplinks without shared bandwidth or tenant contention. Because the infrastructure is never shared, workloads avoid the throughput unpredictability common in multi-tenant public cloud environments where bandwidth is split across customers on the same physical host.

Only traffic that exits VLANs to the public internet counts toward billable egress. Internal traffic between compute, storage, and workload tiers within a private cloud stays off the meter entirely, making OpenMetal’s network model predictable for teams running high-throughput workloads like Kubernetes clusters, distributed databases, or containerized services.