Q: What is the difference between OpenMetal’s persistent NVMe and AWS i4i ephemeral instance storage? OpenMetal Large v5 ships with 12.8 TB of local NVMe that persists across reboots and
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Q: How does the OpenMetal Large v5 compare to AWS i4i instances? The Large v5 delivers 32 dedicated Granite Rapids cores, 512 GB DDR5-6400, 12.8 TB of persistent local NVMe,
Q: Can I run TDX-protected VMs on an OpenMetal Large v5 Hosted Private Cloud cluster? No — Intel TDX is supported on OpenMetal bare metal Large v5 servers only, not
Q: How much usable storage does a 3-node Large v5 Hosted Private Cloud Ceph cluster provide? A 3-node Large v5 Hosted Private Cloud delivers 38.4 TB of raw NVMe capacity,
Q: Does OpenMetal sign a HIPAA BAA for TDX-protected workloads on the Large v5? Yes — OpenMetal is HIPAA compliant at the organizational level and signs Business Associate Agreements for
Q: Can I combine Intel SGX enclaves with TDX guest VMs on the OpenMetal Large v5? Yes — SGX and TDX work in parallel on the Xeon 6517P; the typical
Q: How do I upgrade a deployed OpenMetal Large v5 to enable Intel TDX? Schedule the upgrade with OpenMetal: 8 additional DDR5-6400 DIMMs are added to populate all 16 slots,
Q: Does the OpenMetal Large v5 support Intel TDX confidential computing? Yes — the Large v5’s Xeon 6517P processors support Intel TDX, but activation requires upgrading from the base 512
Q: How does the larger L3 cache on the Large v5 improve database and analytics workloads? The Large v5’s 144 MB total L3 cache (72 MB per Xeon 6517P) is
Q: What NVMe drives does OpenMetal use in the Large v5 bare metal server? The Large v5 ships with 2x 6.4 TB Micron 7500 MAX U.3 NVMe SSDs (12.8 TB
Q: How many drive bays does the OpenMetal Large v5 support? The Large v5 chassis supports 10 total drive bays — 2 are populated by default with 6.4 TB Micron
Q: What is the memory bandwidth of the OpenMetal Large v5 with DDR5-6400? The Large v5 delivers approximately 819 GB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth — 512 GB of DDR5-6400 across
Q: What is the Intel Xeon 6517P (Granite Rapids) and why did OpenMetal pick it for the Large v5? The Xeon 6517P is Intel’s Granite Rapids server CPU on the
Q: What is the difference between the OpenMetal Large v4 and Large v5 bare metal servers? The Large v5 replaces the Large v4 with Granite Rapids CPUs on Intel 3,
This comparison sets the OpenMetal Large v5 bare metal server against AWS i4i family instances, the closest AWS profile for storage-heavy workloads needing persistent NVMe and high I/O. The structural
The Large v5 Hosted Private Cloud is a three-node OpenStack and Ceph cluster built on OpenMetal’s current-generation Large v5 bare metal hardware. Each node contributes dual Xeon 6517P processors (Granite
The Large v5 TDX Edition is the Large v5 bare metal server configured with a 1 TB DDR5-6400 memory upgrade that activates Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) on the dual
The Large v5 is OpenMetal’s current-generation mid-tier bare metal server, built on dual Intel Xeon 6517P processors on the Granite Rapids architecture (Intel 3 process node). It replaces the Large