Documentation – OpenMetal Cloud

Maximize density with 5th Gen Intel Xeon. We benchmark OpenMetal’s Large V4 servers to reveal 21% better compute, 14x faster AI inference via AMX, and secure confidential computing with TDX. Eliminate the GPU tax and future-proof I/O.

Don’t let your migration be part of the 83% failure rate. This guide outlines 5 technical success criteria for your Private Cloud PoC from p99 latency to financial modeling, and includes a 4-week execution timeline to validate your “Public Cloud Exit” strategy.

Healthcare organizations using Gmail or Office 365 face HIPAA violations from encryption gaps, BAA limitations, and audit failures. Consumer email services cost $37-65/user/month for partial compliance. Building dedicated email infrastructure on OpenMetal saves 40% while ensuring full control.

OpenMetal is doubling included public bandwidth across all hardware tiers at no additional cost. XXL and XL servers now include 4Gbps per server (up from 2Gbps), Large servers get 2Gbps (up from 1 Gbps), Medium servers get 1Gbps (up from 500Mbps), and Small servers receive 400Mbps (up from 200Mbps). The upgrade eliminates bandwidth constraints for high-traffic applications.

AWS blocks or restricts legitimate workloads like bulk email, security research, and blockchain nodes. These arbitrary limits force businesses to seek approval for basic operations. OpenMetal provides unrestricted bare metal infrastructure where your legitimate workload won’t face suspension.

Replica 2 or replica 3? The answer may not affect you as much as you think. Neither protects against the data loss scenarios that actually happen in production. Learn why you need a separate backup cluster regardless of replica count and how OpenMetal’s fixed pricing makes it affordable where hyperscalers make it cost-prohibitive.

OpenMetal and ModulesGarden turn OpenStack from a complex idea into an accessible, revenue-ready platform. OpenMetal delivers production-ready OpenStack clouds in hours, while ModulesGarden enables seamless packaging and management through WHMCS—empowering service providers to compete with hyperscalers without hyperscaler budgets.

Public cloud providers like AWS and GCP will suspend your account for running honeypots, malware analysis, or penetration testing. Security researchers need dedicated infrastructure with nested isolation. Learn how to build a “sandbox-within-a-sandbox” lab using infrastructure VLANs and OpenStack VPCs.

Your infrastructure choice isn’t just technical—it’s financial. Broadcom’s VMware transformation and hyperscaler billing opacity create margin compression exactly when late-stage startups need improving unit economics. Open infrastructure provides the third path.

Hyperscalers like AWS and GCP block custom email services, pushing you to their metered APIs. Learn why this conflict of interest hurts your business and how to build a scalable, high-volume email platform on OpenMetal’s dedicated hardware with BYOIP, private networking, and no sending limits.

Learn how to migrate storage from VMware ESXi/vSAN to OpenStack with Ceph. Covers VMDK conversion tools, benchmarking, data validation, and common pitfalls to avoid.

Hyperscalers lock you in by owning your IP addresses. Moving infrastructure means updating firewall rules, losing email reputation, and coordinating DNS changes across partners. BYOIP gives you control over your network identity. Learn why this matters for multi-region, hybrid, and enterprise workloads.

Most cloud platforms promised predictability but delivered predictable bills, not predictable performance. True infrastructure reliability requires operational visibility—baseline latency, IO consistency, and debuggable systems. Learn why visibility isn’t a luxury—it’s the prerequisite for stability at scale.

Deploying Proxmox VE on OpenMetal bare metal eliminates virtualization licensing costs while providing enterprise features like HA clustering and live migration. Organizations achieve 50%+ savings versus public cloud with predictable monthly pricing. Dedicated hardware delivers consistent performance without resource contention, making this combination ideal for production workloads, database consolidation, and VMware migrations.

Your cloud bill isn’t just an expense—it’s margin you can recover. See how infrastructure decisions directly impact gross margin, burn rate, and valuation for late-stage SaaS companies

Choosing between local storage and Ceph network storage isn’t just technical. It impacts your budget, performance, and uptime. Learn when raw speed matters more than redundancy, why some apps pay for replication twice, and how to scale efficiently without over-provisioning hardware you don’t need.

The “cloud first” era has given way to “cloud right.” With 21% of workloads already repatriated and 70% of organizations running hybrid architectures, the question isn’t where to run infrastructure—it’s which environment makes economic and technical sense for each workload.

The 2018 Spectre, Meltdown, and Foreshadow vulnerabilities exposed fundamental CPU flaws that shattered assumptions about hardware isolation. Learn how these attacks sparked the confidential computing revolution and how OpenMetal enables Intel TDX on enterprise bare metal infrastructure.

OpenMetal offers six server tiers (XS through XXL) running identical OpenStack and Ceph architectures. This consistency eliminates replatforming friction as you scale from proof-of-concept through enterprise production, allowing workloads to migrate between tiers without architectural changes.

OpenMetal’s Director of Cloud Systems Architecture, Yuriy Shyyan, exposes the hidden costs and “timeshare” tactics of public cloud providers on Software Defined Talk. Learn why billion-dollar companies rely on their own fixed-cost, open source infrastructure and how you can make the strategic move to private cloud and regain control.

Learn how to reduce staging and development infrastructure costs by 30-50% through granular Ceph storage redundancy control. OpenMetal’s bare metal private cloud lets you configure replica 2 or erasure coding for non-production workloads while maintaining replica 3 for production, directly cutting hardware requirements.

Discover why over-provisioning on OpenMetal’s dedicated hardware isn’t wasteful, it’s a strategic advantage. Fixed monthly pricing means unused capacity costs nothing extra, enabling 4:1 CPU over-subscription, unlimited VLANs, and lower-redundancy storage that maximize ROI for bursty CI/CD workloads.

Healthcare organizations need infrastructure that can handle petabyte-scale medical imaging and clinical data while meeting HIPAA’s strict security requirements. Learn how OpenMetal’s Ceph-based storage delivers unified block, object, and file storage with comprehensive audit logging, encryption, and access controls all with fixed monthly pricing that eliminates unpredictable cloud storage costs.

Discover how to architect multi-site high availability infrastructure that maintains continuous operation across geographic locations. This comprehensive guide covers OpenStack deployment patterns, Ceph storage replication, networking strategies, and cost-effective approaches to achieving five nines uptime.

Design fault-tolerant validator infrastructure combining dedicated bare metal performance, redundant networking, self-healing Ceph storage, and OpenStack orchestration for maintaining consensus uptime through failures.

Research institutions, universities, and NGOs face strict grant budgets and data protection requirements. Variable hyperscaler pricing creates financial risk that grant cycles can’t absorb. Fixed-price confidential private clouds provide transparent costs, hardware-level security, and compliance support.

Discover how to transition your OpenMetal private cloud from proof of concept to production. Learn expansion strategies using converged nodes, compute resources, storage clusters, and GPU acceleration for real-world workloads at scale.

Cloud infrastructure often represents one of the largest—and least understood—expenses during technical diligence. Learn what to evaluate, which red flags to watch for, and how transparent infrastructure platforms simplify the assessment process for PE firms evaluating SaaS acquisitions.

Hybrid cloud isn’t just about using multiple public clouds—it’s about strategically combining private and public cloud resources to gain cost predictability, avoid vendor lock-in, and maintain compliance. Learn whether hybrid cloud fits your organization and how to build a strategy that works.

Discover how OpenMetal’s storage servers solve the hot-to-cold storage challenge with hybrid NVMe and HDD architectures powered by Ceph. Get enterprise-grade block, file, and object storage in one unified platform with transparent pricing — no egress fees, no vendor lock-in, and full control over your private cloud storage infrastructure.

Late-stage startups face an invisible tax: cloud costs that compound faster than revenue, compressing runway and lowering valuations. Discover why infrastructure efficiency now matters more than growth rate in fundraising, how burn multiples determine exit valuations, and strategies to reclaim runway through predictable cloud architecture.

Discover how OpenMetal’s dedicated VLAN architecture and OpenStack’s VXLAN overlays create secure, scalable network infrastructure. This guide covers physical isolation, virtual networking, dual 10 Gbps bonding, and network segmentation strategies for production private clouds.

Organizations running data-intensive intelligence platforms face mounting challenges with hyperscale cloud costs and performance unpredictability. OpenMetal Private Cloud built on OpenStack with Ceph storage delivers self-service infrastructure with transparent pricing, consistent performance, and sovereignty control—without sacrificing scalability.

Cross-border data transfer regulations are tightening globally. Confidential computing provides enterprises with verifiable, hardware-backed protection for sensitive workloads during processing. Learn how CTOs and CISOs use Intel TDX, regional infrastructure, and isolated networking to meet GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS requirements.

Blockchain validators demand millisecond precision and unthrottled performance. Public cloud throttling, unpredictable costs, and resource sharing are driving operators to bare metal infrastructure. Learn why dedicated hardware with isolated networking eliminates the risks that shared environments create.

Discover how big data analytics combined with dedicated bare metal infrastructure enables real-time fraud detection systems that analyze millions of transactions with sub-100ms latencies, eliminating the performance variability and unpredictable costs of public clouds while achieving 30-60% infrastructure savings.

Modern applications generate massive east-west traffic between internal services—often exceeding external user traffic. Hyperscale clouds hide these flows behind opaque pricing and shared networks. Discover how OpenMetal’s dedicated infrastructure gives enterprise teams transparent control over internal networking performance and costs.

Deploying microservices and service meshes requires predictable network QoS that hyperscalers can’t provide. OpenMetal’s dedicated infrastructure gives developers transparent control over traffic flows, free internal bandwidth, and network policies that actually work—bridging the gap between intent and reality.

Discover how to build production-grade time-series databases on OpenMetal’s dedicated bare metal infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers time-series fundamentals, popular open-source options like ClickHouse and TimescaleDB, and provides a detailed deployment blueprint with infrastructure optimization strategies.

Private equity firms are replacing variable cloud costs with fixed-cost infrastructure to improve EBITDA predictability and portfolio valuations. Learn how transparent, hardware-based pricing creates financial advantages for PE-backed SaaS companies.

Discover how OpenMetal’s strategically positioned data centers eliminate the “data tax” on globally distributed applications. Free east-west traffic between regions plus predictable 95th percentile bandwidth billing lets you architect for performance instead of cost avoidance, with typical savings of 30-60% versus public cloud.

Traditional VLANs and firewalls fail in distributed cloud environments. Learn how zero-trust networking using microsegmentation, VXLAN overlays, and identity-based routing works in private clouds—and why OpenMetal’s transparent architecture makes it operationally achievable where hyperscalers fall short.

The hardest enterprise migration isn’t technical—it’s cultural. Discover why platform teams are replacing traditional IT silos, how to navigate the transformation from operations to product thinking, and what private cloud infrastructure means for developer experience and business velocity.

VMware customers face licensing costs that have doubled or tripled under Broadcom’s new model. Learn how enterprises are migrating to OpenStack-based infrastructure through providers like OpenMetal to achieve predictable pricing, lower 3-5 year TCO, and strategic freedom from vendor lock-in.

Generative AI and AI workloads are reshaping cloud infrastructure demands. Public cloud limitations around GPU availability, egress costs, and shared resources are driving enterprises toward private cloud solutions. Learn how OpenMetal’s hosted private cloud delivers dedicated GPU resources, transparent pricing, and hybrid flexibility for AI success.

DevOps teams need more than restricted cloud access. OpenMetal provides full root access to dedicated bare metal infrastructure, enabling complete control over hardware and software stacks. Deploy custom configurations, implement infrastructure as code, and optimize performance without vendor limitations, all in 45 seconds.

Network spikes test validator infrastructure beyond normal limits. Discover how bare metal servers deliver the consistent performance, predictable costs, and operational control needed to maintain validator operations during high-stress network events while maximizing rewards.

Confidential cloud storage with Ceph combines distributed architecture, hardware-backed security, and OpenStack orchestration to protect sensitive data at scale. Learn how OpenMetal delivers secure storage for regulated industries.

Discover how single-tenant private cloud infrastructure solves the performance unpredictability and cost challenges of high-volume data collection, with dedicated resources that scale reliably for IoT, analytics, and real-time processing workloads.

PE firms struggle with fragmented infrastructure across portfolio companies. Private cloud standardization delivers 30-50% cost savings, predictable EBITDA, and operational efficiency across all holdings.