Documentation – OpenMetal Cloud

Choosing a database? We compare traditional Azure SQL with a distributed TiDB cluster on OpenMetal. See how TiDB’s distributed design is able to fully tap into the power of ephemeral NVMe for speed and resilience, offering huge TCO savings by eliminating licensing and high egress fees.

This guide makes confidential computing practical. Explore how to reduce deployment complexity using OpenMetal’s secure, TDX-enabled infrastructure.

Kolla-Ansible simplifies multinode OpenStack deployments using Docker and Ansible automation. This guide walks you through the entire process, from hardware needs to final validation, helping you build a scalable private cloud faster and with fewer errors.

Are you a data architect or developer frustrated by slow and unreliable data pipelines? This article provides a high-performance blueprint using Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Ceph on OpenMetal’s bare metal cloud. Escape the “hypervisor tax” and build scalable, cost-effective ETL systems with direct hardware control for predictable performance.

The integration of Kubernetes and OpenStack is a mature strategy for building powerful, flexible, and cost-effective private and hybrid clouds. Success depends on understanding their complementary roles and taking advantage of integration points to create a cohesive system. This guide provides an analysis of five best practices for architecting, deploying, and managing Kubernetes on OpenStack.

Hong Kong businesses benefit from hosting their applications on OpenMetal’s dedicated servers and cloud infrastructure located in Singapore.

Kuala Lumpur businesses benefit from hosting their applications on OpenMetal’s dedicated servers and cloud infrastructure located in Singapore.

Bangkok businesses benefit from hosting their applications on OpenMetal’s dedicated servers and cloud infrastructure located in Singapore.

When you combine Ceph’s smart, distributed software with storage that can handle millions of operations per second with near-zero delay, you get a solution that can go head-to-head with high-end, specialized systems. But it’s not as simple as swapping out your old hard drives for NVMe ones. Here’s how to do it right and all the potential performance benefits you can enjoy using an all-NVMe Ceph cluster.

This guide makes confidential computing practical. Explore how to reduce deployment complexity using OpenMetal’s secure, TDX-enabled infrastructure.

Tired of slow model training and unpredictable cloud costs? Learn how to build a powerful, cost-effective MLOps platform from scratch with OpenMetal’s hosted private and bare metal cloud solutions. This comprehensive guide provides the blueprint for taking control of your entire machine learning lifecycle.

Learn how media companies can deploy OpenAI Whisper on a private GPU cloud for large-scale, real-time transcription, automated multilingual subtitling, and searchable archives. Ensure full data sovereignty, predictable costs, and enterprise-grade security for all your content workflows.

Learn how to improve confidential computing performance using Intel TDX, bare metal, and GPU passthrough without sacrificing security.

If you’re looking to simplify your multi-cloud strategy, combining Kubernetes with OpenStack is a powerful approach. OpenStack provides the core infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and Kubernetes orchestrates your containerized applications on top of it, giving you a consistent platform everywhere. This guide gives you a straightforward look at how to plan, build, and manage a multi-cloud network using these two technologies.

Discover how IT teams can deploy BioGPT on OpenMetal’s dedicated NVIDIA GPU servers within a private OpenStack cloud. Learn strategic best practices for compliance-ready setups (HIPAA, GDPR), high-performance inference, cost transparency, and in-house model fine-tuning for biomedical research.

Discover an in-depth comparison of Apache CloudStack vs. OpenStack for migrating from VMware. Technical buyers will learn about architectural differences, VMware integration strategies, migration utilities (virt-v2v, MigrateKit, Coriolis), and how OpenMetal’s managed private cloud on OpenStack can accelerate your transition with predictable pricing and SLA-backed support.

Explore how MicroVMs deliver fast, secure, and resource-efficient horizontal scaling for modern workloads like serverless platforms, high-concurrency APIs, and AI inference. Discover how OpenMetal’s high-performance private cloud and bare metal infrastructure supports scalable MicroVM deployments.

Frustrated by a Cinder volume that won’t attach? We’ve got you. This guide breaks down the common causes like incorrect volume states, backend config errors, and network glitches. Learn to troubleshoot and fix these attachment failures with practical CLI commands and preventative tips.

Struggling with an outdated, expensive legacy data warehouse like Oracle, SQL Server, or Teradata? This article offers Data Architects, CIOs, and DBAs a practical, phased roadmap to modernize by migrating to open source solutions on OpenMetal. Discover how to achieve superior performance, significant cost savings, elastic scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in.

Explore CephFS metadata management in depth. This guide explains how CephFS separates metadata, uses Metadata Servers (MDS) with active-active setups, journaling, and caching for fast, scalable, and reliable POSIX-compliant storage. Understand its benefits for private clouds, HPC, and more.

Mistral is OpenStack’s workflow automation service that simplifies cloud operations by turning manual tasks into automated workflows. Learn about how it works and how you can get started using it to help boost efficiency and resource management in cloud environments.

Learn how to configure external networks in OpenStack Neutron. This guide walks through creating networks, subnets, routers, and floating IPs. Learn to secure connections, ensure high availability, and tune performance for reliable public access to your cloud.

Learn how to deploy confidential computing workloads on bare metal using Intel TDX, OpenMetal servers, and secure infrastructure best practices.

Learn how to enable Intel SGX and TDX on OpenMetal’s Medium, Large, XL, and XXL v4 servers. This guide covers required memory configurations (8 DIMMs per CPU and 1TB RAM), hardware prerequisites, and a detailed cost comparison for provisioning SGX/TDX-ready infrastructure.

Dynamic Workload Consolidation is a proven strategy for reducing energy consumption and operational costs in private cloud environments. By intelligently managing your resources, you improve server utilization, cut down on wasted power, and contribute to a more sustainable IT operation.

We’re diving into OpenStack Monasca and Datadog, comparing them as monitoring tools for private cloud environments. Picking one comes down to your organization’s way of working, your team’s skills, and your overall cloud strategy. We’ll get into how they work, benefits and challenges, their ideal use cases, and when you may want to use them together.

OpenStack-based hosted private clouds offer MSPs an exceptional opportunity to provide their clients with a high-performance, secure, and cost-effective cloud solution. By leveraging the flexibility of OpenStack, MSPs can fine-tune performance, reduce costs, and deliver customized solutions that align with client needs.

Choosing to build on open foundations is a strategic investment in flexibility, control, and future innovation. By tapping into the power of the open source ecosystem, organizations can build data lakes and lakehouses that are powerful and cost-effective today, and also ready to adapt to the data challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.

A quick list of some of the most popular Hugging Face models / domain types that could benefit from being hosted on private AI infrastructure.

Discover how cloud resellers can offer scalable on-demand GPU services for AI/ML by leveraging OpenMetal’s Private GPU Servers. Learn about GPU time-slicing, MIG, virtualization strategies, and industry trends driving growth—plus key business benefits and real-world use cases.

Explore asynchronous replication in OpenStack clouds for improved application performance, cost savings, and flexible disaster recovery. Learn its benefits, common use cases with Cinder and Swift, conceptual setup, and key considerations like managing RPO and resource usage for a resilient deployment.

Explore how OpenMetal’s transparent private cloud pricing model helps organizations eliminate surprise bills, cut data egress costs, and avoid licensing fees. With average real-world savings of over 50%, fixed monthly pricing, and open-source foundations, it’s a smarter alternative to public cloud.

Thinking about segmenting your private cloud network? This guide explains how it makes things safer and faster. We cover the pros, the challenges (like complexity and cost), plus useful techniques like VLANs and bonding. Get helpful tips so you can plan and manage it successfully.

Learn to deploy Ceph RGW in OpenStack for scalable S3 and Swift-compatible object storage. Covers installation, configuration, quotas, Keystone integration, integrating Glance images and Cinder backups, performance monitoring and tuning, advanced multi-site replication, lifecycle rules, encryption, and tagging.

Discover how OpenMetal delivers performance and flexibility through tiered cloud storage options. Learn the pros and use cases of direct-attached NVMe, Ceph-based high availability block storage, and scalable, low-cost erasure-coded object storage—all integrated into OpenStack.

Discover the power of the OpenMetal Large v4 Storage Server with dual Intel Xeon Silver 4510 CPUs, 720TB HDD storage, 76.8TB NVMe flash, and 512GB DDR5 RAM. Perfect for building high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage clusters for cloud, AI/ML, and enterprise data lakes.

A practical guide into OpenStack multi-tenant environments. Understand the underlying architecture, component interactions (Keystone, Nova, Neutron), configuration steps for secure tenant isolation, resource quota management, and more advanced tips for security and performance tuning.

Many AI startups default to public cloud and face soaring costs, performance issues, and compliance risks. This article explores how private AI infrastructure delivers predictable pricing, dedicated resources, and better business outcomes—setting you up for success.

A crypto trading firm deployed blockchain infrastructure on bare metal to run Solana validator workloads with low latency and full control.

Nova logs are key for OpenStack troubleshooting and health. Understand common API, compute, network, and login errors. Learn to read logs (timestamps, severity, modules) and use tools like ELK/Monasca. Implement good log management for faster issue resolution and a stable environment.

A Web3 team deployed blockchain infrastructure on bare metal and Ceph storage to scale decentralized workloads and cut storage costs.

In a recent live webinar, OpenMetal’s Todd Robinson sat down with Emrul Islam from Kasm Technologies to explore how container-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and infrastructure flexibility can empower teams tackling everything from machine learning research to high-security operations.

We’re thrilled to announce a significant step in our global journey: OpenMetal is officially launching a brand new data center location in Singapore!

Learn about major 2025 SOC 2 compliance trends like AI monitoring, zero-trust, DevSecOps, and threat response. Find out how to stay compliant and secure both this year and in the future.

With the new OpenMetal Private AI Labs program, you can access private GPU servers and clusters tailored for your AI projects. By joining, you’ll receive up to $50,000 in usage credits to test, build, and scale your AI workloads.

As blockchain technology moves beyond cryptocurrency, more companies are running blockchain workloads on bare metal to meet growing demands for speed, security, and control. This post explores how it works, why it matters, and where it’s already being used in real-world industries.

Ceph is a distributed storage system designed for scalability, high availability, and data durability. It manages data across clusters using robust replication strategies and a well-defined consistency model. This article talks about Ceph’s replication strategies, write processes, consistency guarantees, and failure recovery mechanisms.

GPU Servers and Clusters are now available on OpenMetal—giving you dedicated access to enterprise-grade NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs on fully private, high-performance infrastructure.

Cold start latency becomes a visible and impactful factor in private environments and can slow down AI inference, especially when infrastructure is deployed on-demand to optimize resource usage or reduce costs. Learn causes, impacts, and how to reduce delay for faster, reliable performance.

Discover how machine learning and data analytics teams could accelerate training, inference, and data pipelines using OpenMetal’s infrastructure. This example setup combines a Large v3 Cloud Core with high-capacity Storage v3 servers, NVMe speed, and 95th percentile egress pricing.