Q: How does the OpenMetal Medium v5 compare to the Medium v4? Switching from the Medium v4 to the Medium v5 brings 113% more L3 cache per socket (48 MB
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Q: What is the difference between the Intel Xeon Silver 4510 and the Intel Xeon 6505P? The Xeon 6505P (Granite Rapids, Intel 3 process) more than doubles the L3 cache
Q: What NVMe drives does OpenMetal use in the Medium v5 bare metal server? The OpenMetal Medium v5 uses the Micron 7500 MAX 6.4 TB NVMe as its data drive,
Q: What is the maximum RAM in an OpenMetal Medium v5 bare metal server? The OpenMetal Medium v5 supports up to 2 TB of DDR5-6400 ECC RDIMM across its 16
Q: Does the OpenMetal Medium v5 support Intel TDX confidential computing? The OpenMetal Medium v5 supports Intel TDX, but it is not enabled at the base 256 GB configuration; TDX
Q: How does Intel TDX remote attestation work on OpenMetal bare metal servers? Intel TDX remote attestation on OpenMetal bare metal servers generates a hardware-rooted ECDSA-signed quote containing a cryptographic
Q: What is the difference between the OpenMetal XL v4 and XXL v4? The OpenMetal XL v4 and XXL v4 share the same processor — dual Intel Xeon Gold 6530
Q: What NVMe drives does OpenMetal use in the XXL v4 bare metal server? The OpenMetal XXL v4 includes six Micron 7500 MAX 6400GB NVMe SSDs as data drives, delivering
Q: Can I run Kubernetes on an OpenMetal XXL v4 bare metal server? Kubernetes runs on the OpenMetal XXL v4 bare metal server with full control over the distribution, CNI,
Q: What workloads is the OpenMetal XXL v4 best suited for? The OpenMetal XXL v4 is best suited for workloads that require sustained access to a large memory pool on
Q: How does the OpenMetal XXL v4 support large in-memory database workloads? The OpenMetal XXL v4 supports large in-memory database workloads through its 2048GB DDR5 base configuration, 320MB total L3
Q: What is the maximum RAM configuration on the OpenMetal XXL v4? The OpenMetal XXL v4 supports a maximum of 8192GB of RAM across its 32 DIMM slots — four
Q: What is the difference between Intel TDX and Intel SGX on OpenMetal servers? Intel TDX isolates entire virtual machines from the hypervisor and other VMs; Intel SGX isolates individual
Q: Can I run Intel SGX enclaves and TDX VMs on the same OpenMetal server? Intel SGX enclaves and TDX VMs can run concurrently on the same OpenMetal XXL v4
Q: What is the RAM requirement to activate Intel TDX on OpenMetal bare metal servers? Activating Intel TDX on OpenMetal bare metal servers requires a minimum of 1TB of installed
Q: What is the usable Ceph storage capacity in a 3-node OpenMetal XXL v4 cluster? A three-node OpenMetal XXL v4 Hosted Private Cloud cluster provides approximately 38.4TB of usable Ceph
Q: How does the OpenMetal XXL v4 compare to the AWS x2idn instance? The OpenMetal XXL v4 and AWS x2idn.32xlarge are both 2TB RAM platforms, but differ fundamentally in tenancy
Q: Is OpenMetal cheaper than AWS for 2TB RAM dedicated servers? For sustained 24/7 workloads, OpenMetal’s fixed monthly pricing for the XXL v4 is typically lower than AWS x2idn.32xlarge on-demand
Q: What is Intel Speed Select Technology and how does it improve latency on OpenMetal bare metal servers? Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) is Intel’s hardware mechanism for defining multiple
Q: Is OpenMetal’s XL v4 High Frequency server suitable for high-frequency trading infrastructure? The XL v4 High Frequency is well-suited for co-located HFT infrastructure because its 3.6 GHz base clock
Q: How does DDR5-5200 memory on the XL v4 High Frequency compare to DDR5-4800 on the standard XL v4? DDR5-5200 on the XL v4 High Frequency provides approximately 8% higher
Q: Can I run confidential AI inference on OpenMetal bare metal? Confidential AI inference — where model weights, inputs, and outputs are encrypted in hardware memory during execution — runs
Q: Can I expand an OpenMetal Storage Medium v4 to the Storage Large v4 configuration? Yes. The Storage Medium v4 and Storage Large v4 share the same chassis with identical
Q: How does the OpenMetal Medium v4 compare to AWS m7i instances? The Medium v4 provides 24 dedicated physical cores, 256 GB DDR5, and 6.4 TB persistent local NVMe on
Q: What Intel Xeon processor does the OpenMetal Medium v4 use? The Medium v4 uses dual Intel Xeon Silver 4510 processors, providing 24 cores and 48 threads across two sockets
Q: How does the OpenMetal Medium v4 compare to the Large v4 bare metal server? The Medium v4 and Large v4 share the same chassis and dual boot drive design
Q: What NVMe drives does OpenMetal use in the Medium v4 bare metal server? The Medium v4 ships with one 6.4 TB Micron 7500 MAX NVMe SSD connected via PCIe
Q: How much storage does the OpenMetal Storage Medium v4 provide? The Storage Medium v4 provides 120 TB of raw HDD capacity (six 20 TB SATA drives) plus 12.8 TB
Q: How does the Medium v4 Hosted Private Cloud compare to the Large v4 cluster? The Medium v4 cluster provides 72 cores, 768 GB RAM, and 19.2 TB raw NVMe
Q: What is the difference between the OpenMetal Storage Medium v4 and Storage Large v4? Both servers share the same chassis, CPU, memory, and network configuration, but differ in drive
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
Q: How much private bandwidth does an OpenMetal bare metal server include? Every OpenMetal bare metal server includes dual 10 Gbps private network interfaces, delivering 20 Gbps of total private
Q: How does OpenMetal eliminate VMware licensing costs for private cloud deployments? OpenMetal replaces VMware’s per-VM and per-CPU licensing model with an open source stack that carries zero software licensing
Q: How does OpenMetal’s ramp pricing help organizations avoid paying for two environments during a VMware migration? Ramp pricing gives migrating organizations temporary discounts on their OpenMetal environment so they