Ceph Storage Cluster Pricing

Rapid deployment, no hardware management, root control, scale easily to petabytes.

Use your NVMe drives as fast storage or as a caching layer for your spinners. Exceptional performance per GB stored can be achieved with this method.
Replicate an existing Ceph cluster to this cluster for data recovery purposes.
Replicate cluster out to another OpenMetal cloud or to any other Ceph cluster you administer.
Your Ceph storage cluster will be provisioned with a recent stable release or work with our team to select your own version.
Ceph provides S3-compatible APIs, which means it can mimic the functionality of AWS S3 and integrates with tools that use S3 storage.

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Hardware Options

Storage clusters require 3 or more servers. Specs may vary slightly.

All servers have separate boot drives. For custom configurations please schedule a meeting or email us at sales@openmetal.io

Network based block storage, object storage, and file systems that are large scale and based on hard drives (spinning media) greatly benefit from a high performance caching layer and high CPU ratio. Storage Large V3 are highlighted specifically due to:

Featuring 4 x 4TB SSD NVMe drives and 12 x 18TB hard drives. The NVMe drives cache reads and writes above the spinning media. This dramatically improves I/O.

Featuring large CPUs and 256GB of RAM. Ceph leverages the powerful CPUs for erasure coding that maximizes disk space while providing redundancy.

Server	CPUs	Per CPU Specs	RAM	Storage	Network	Custom
Storage Large V1	2	10C/20T 2.4/3.2 GHz Intel Xeon Silver 4210R	128GB	4x 1.92TB NVMe 12x 12TB HDD 256GB Boot Disk	20Gbps (Private) 1Gbps (Public)	Yes
Storage Large V3 Most Popular	2	16C/32T 2.4/3.4 GHz Intel Xeon Silver 4314	256GB	4x 4TB NVMe 12x 18TB HDD 512GB Boot Disk	20Gbps (Private) 4Gbps (Public)	Yes
Storage Large V4	2	12C/24T 2.4/4.1 GHz Intel Xeon Silver 4510	256GB	4x 6.4TB NVMe 12x 22TB HDD 2 x 960GB Boot Disks	20Gbps (Private) 4Gbps (Public)	Yes

Pricing FAQs, Eligibility and Usage Restrictions

How do I lock to a budget?

Each OpenMetal Cloud that you create has a top-level budget set by the OpenMetal Central Admin level users for that cloud. As the admin, you set the maximum daily cost of your cluster. Whenever a server is requested, the interface or API will first check if your private cloud price would exceed your budget. If it exceeds your budget, the request is denied.
Your budget is found under the Settings in each individual Cloud. It can also be set when first provisioning the Cloud.

All usage is subject to our full Terms of Service.

Erasure Coding Details and Options

We are adding the details now, please speak with your sales engineer.

Do you have any limitations on content or workloads?

Different regions have different legal requirements for content and workloads that are your responsibility to understand and conform with.

Certain usage may place you in a different billing bracket. This is typically determined by the power utilization of your servers. You will be notified and have up to 60 days to address the utilization before moving into the new billing bracket. For activities like crypto-mining, there is no grace period. Please notify your Account Manager if you believe your workload is likely to have high continuous power consumption. They will provide you with options and pricing for these special cases.

All usage is subject to our full Terms of Service.

What is OpenMetal Central?

OpenMetal Central (FMC) is the central overarching API (and dashboard) that is typically used by IT Leadership. Within FMC hardware is organized by “Cloud Projects”. This allows IT Leadership to spin up multiple separate Clouds and set budget limits on what can be added to an individual project. Sign up in OpenMetal Central.

Are there license costs by GiB or other resources?

OpenMetal uses Open Source technology for all major systems. There are no license fees for any Ceph feature supplied in the standard storage cluster.

What do I get if I sign up for OpenMetal Central?

It is free to sign up for OpenMetal Central. You will have access to a dashboard that allows you to take steps to begin your private cloud.

When do we get billed?

All billing is Monthly for stand alone storage clusters. This is based on your agreement.

How much do we have to pay for bandwidth?

Each storage cluster comes with a base egress bandwidth allowance. Currently there’s no charge for ingress. There is no current way to limit your bandwidth usage from our side but we encourage you to use the tools within OpenStack and Linux that can limit bandwidth usage. For Egress usage beyond the base cluster allowance you can check out or egress pricing or lock in your rate with a bandwidth plan from sales.

For guaranteed bandwidth plans, please contact Sales. The typical plan is:

For Egress, you are billed on the 95th Percentile at $0.37 per Mbit per week. Your 95th Percentile is calculated against the number of days up to 7 days. The minimum usage commitment is 100Mbits at $37.00/wk. Higher commits yield lower per Mbit costs.

We reserve the right to implement limitations and restrictions at any time if you are not on a guaranteed bandwidth plan