Private Bandwidth Included with OpenMetal Bare Metal Servers

Q: How much private bandwidth does an OpenMetal bare metal server include?

OpenMetal bare metal servers include 20 Gbps of private bandwidth by default (two 10 Gbps interfaces, LACP-bonded), upgradeable to 40 Gbps (four 10 Gbps interfaces) for an additional cost. This applies across all v2-and-later generations, and private east-west traffic is unmetered at either tier.

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These private links connect each server to customer-dedicated VLANs, handling all internal communication between servers in the same deployment. Private network traffic is fully unmetered, so there is no cap or overage charge on east-west data movement regardless of volume. Only traffic that exits to the public internet counts toward egress billing. Each server includes a base allotment of public egress at no extra charge, with overages billed using 95th percentile bandwidth measurement or available as prepaid 1 Gbps blocks at $375/month.

The 20 Gbps default and the optional 40 Gbps upgrade apply across OpenMetal’s v2 and later generations, including the Large v5 with dual Intel Xeon 6517P and DDR5-6400 memory. This consistent baseline means workloads like virtualization clusters, big data pipelines, and storage replication benefit from predictable throughput without contention from other tenants, since every bare metal server is single-tenant hardware dedicated to the customer.

For deployments that also run a Hosted Private Cloud alongside bare metal, the same private network fabric supports Ceph replication, Kubernetes service traffic, and other latency-sensitive internal communication at the server’s provisioned rate: 20 Gbps by default, or 40 Gbps when upgraded.