The Hosted Private Cloud Medium v5 is a three-node OpenStack and Ceph cluster built on the same Medium v5 hardware available as a standalone bare metal server. Each node contributes
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The OpenMetal Medium v5 is the entry server in the v5 Granite Rapids lineup, built on dual Intel Xeon 6505P processors (Granite Rapids, Intel 3 process). It replaces the Medium
The OpenMetal XXL v4 is the largest bare metal server in the v4 generation lineup, designed for workloads that demand the maximum combination of CPU thread density, memory capacity, and
The XL v4 High Frequency is OpenMetal’s dedicated bare metal server for latency-sensitive workloads that need maximum clock speed over maximum thread count. Powered by dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon
The OpenMetal Bare Metal Dedicated Server XL v4 is the top-tier server in the OpenMetal bare metal lineup, succeeding the XL v3 with 5th Gen Intel Xeon Gold 6530 processors
The Medium v4 TDX Edition is not a separate server model. It is the standard Medium v4 chassis with all 16 DIMM slots fully populated — 8 × 64 GB
The Medium v4 is OpenMetal’s entry-level bare metal server, built on dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon Silver 4510 processors (Sapphire Rapids). It is the first server in the Medium tier,
The Storage Large v4 is a different server from the compute-focused Large v4. It pairs high-capacity SATA HDDs with NVMe cache drives in a three-tier storage architecture designed for Ceph
OpenMetal Large v4 Hosted Private Cloud: 3-node OpenStack + Ceph cluster with 96 cores, 1.5TB DDR5, 38.4TB NVMe. Deploy in 45 seconds, fixed monthly pricing, no VMware licensing
OpenMetal Large v4 TDX Edition with dual Xeon Gold 6526Y, 1TB DDR5-5200, Intel TDX confidential computing. Hardware-isolated VMs, HIPAA-eligible, fixed monthly pricing.
The Large v4 is OpenMetal’s mid-tier bare metal dedicated server, built on dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y processors (Emerald Rapids). It is the next generation of the Large
Q: Can I run Kubernetes on OpenMetal bare metal servers? OpenMetal bare metal servers support Kubernetes directly on hardware with no hypervisor layer, using Talos, Flatcar, K3s, or upstream Kubernetes
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 storage servers does OpenMetal offer for Ceph clusters? OpenMetal offers dedicated storage servers built on a three-tier drive architecture (boot SSD, NVMe cache, HDD bulk) designed specifically for
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
At OpenMetal, every bare metal server is deployed with dual high-speed 10Gbps uplinks, providing a critical layer of both performance scalability and fault tolerance. To fully leverage these redundant connections, OpenMetal configures these uplinks as a bonded logical interface using Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP).