Intel TDX confidential VMs run on OpenMetal dedicated bare metal hardware today, available on on XL v5, with OpenStack Nova orchestration slated for after Hibiscus.
Tag: Architecture
Prefill is compute-bound, decode is memory-bandwidth-bound. Why splitting inference into two purpose-fit GPU pools beats one uniform fleet.
After weights load, the HBM left over is your KV-cache budget. Why the H200’s 141GB buys more context and concurrency than a 94GB H100.
Map MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, and Kubernetes workers to OpenMetal SKUs by the resource each role saturates, then size the failure domain.
An ordered Day-2 playbook for a single-tenant H200: full root and IPMI, owning the CUDA stack, boot-data isolation, and a node-bounded blast radius.
The v5 generation can be told as a cores-and-clocks story, but a significant change is bandwidth: the private fabric doubled to 40 Gbps, memory moved to DDR5-6400, and the lane budget grew to 88 PCIe 5.0 lanes.
All-NVMe OSDs, an isolated boot pool, a clean lane budget, and identical nodes: how OpenMetal’s v5 hardware makes Ceph behave predictably instead of needing tuning.
Q: What is boot and data drive isolation on OpenMetal servers? OpenMetal separates OS boot storage from application data storage using physically distinct drive pools, preventing system-level I/O from contending
Q: What Proxmox reference architecture does OpenMetal recommend for bare metal servers? OpenMetal publishes a full Proxmox reference architecture for bare metal, developed with Wendell Wilson from Level1Techs, using a
Q: What is included in OpenMetal’s Hosted Private Cloud Day 2 operations? OpenMetal handles infrastructure monitoring, patching, incident response, and upgrade coordination for Hosted Private Cloud clusters, while the customer
Q: How fast can OpenMetal deploy a Hosted Private Cloud cluster? OpenMetal deploys a production-ready Hosted Private Cloud cluster in under 45 seconds using proprietary automation, delivering a fully configured
Q: How do OpenMetal storage servers connect to compute nodes? Storage servers connect to compute nodes over the same 20 Gbps LACP-bonded private mesh that links all OpenMetal bare metal
Q: Are OpenMetal bare metal servers on dedicated VLANs? Yes, every OpenMetal bare metal server is placed on VLANs dedicated to the individual customer, providing hardware-level network isolation from other
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