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.