Sharing VLANs Between Bare Metal and Private Cloud

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 unified private connectivity across both environments.

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OpenMetal assigns dedicated VLANs at the infrastructure level for each customer, and these VLANs support both bare metal and cloud workloads. This means a bare metal server running a database or analytics engine can communicate directly with virtual machines in a Hosted Private Cloud over the same private network, without routing through the public internet or introducing additional network hops. All traffic between the two stays on the private fabric at up to 20 Gbps per server.

This shared VLAN architecture is useful for hybrid deployment patterns where performance-sensitive components run on dedicated hardware while application tiers, development environments, or orchestration layers run inside OpenStack. Ceph replication, Kubernetes pod-to-pod traffic, and storage I/O all benefit from the low-latency, unmetered private path between bare metal and cloud nodes. VXLAN overlays can also be layered on top of the shared VLANs to create additional virtual network segments managed through OpenStack networking.

Network setup across both environments is managed through OpenMetal Central, the OpenStack Horizon dashboard, or the OpenStack API, giving customers a single control plane for VLAN management, IP assignment, and routing configuration.