Public Cloud Alternative

OpenMetal’s private cloud solution makes it a viable alternative cloud provider to the public mega clouds.

“If you’re operating at scale, the cost of [public] cloud can at least double your infrastructure bill.”

Andreessen Horowitz

Source: The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox

The Journey from Public Clouds to OpenMetal

If you are responsible for driving profitability in your company, you know how expensive public cloud can be. A proprietary (DIY) private cloud is typically a more cost-effective option, but carries significant risk of failure, time delays, and opex efficiency problems.
To resolve these challenges, OpenMetal, an alternative cloud provider, has built an on-demand cloud platform that brings the best of traditional public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal fused into an open source platform.

Cut Public Cloud Costs by 50% (or More)

Reduce public cloud bills by removing proprietary vendor fees, optimizing available resources, lowering egress costs, and much more.

Deploy Clouds in 45 Seconds or Less

Spin up single-tenant clouds on a Private Cloud Core (PCC) assigned exclusively to you in less than a minute.

Control Your Hardware Performance

Get root access to your managed servers to customize configurations for optimal performance.

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In the following sections, we’ve taken frequently-requested requirements for a “development cloud”, with actual and anticipated costs, to provide you insight into what a journey to an OpenMetal on-demand private cloud might look like.

What is the Underlying Infrastructure?

Your initial deployment will be an on-demand OpenStack Private Cloud Core (PCC), built on hardware that is assigned exclusively to you. The benefit is full control over the privacy, security, and governance of your own infrastructure that includes:

XL Private Cloud Core (Three Servers) With Storage and Assisted Management

  • Two drives per box in Ceph for HA network storage
  • Two drives per box as direct NVMe for extreme disk I/O for test data
  • Assisted management and team training on OpenStack and Ceph storage (more details below)

XL – Gen 2
Server Specifications

  • 2x32C/64T 2.0/3.2Ghz Xeon Scalable 6338
  • 1TB RAM
  • 4×3.2TB Intel DC-P4610 NVMe SSD
  • Separate boot/OS drive
  • 2x10gbit with 2gbit included bandwidth

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How Much Does This Cost?

 The monthly costs are estimated as follows, broken out per server unit and per three-server cluster. These costs are based on a three year agreement with inherent OpEx cost savings and eligible price reductions after four years.

Year One


$1,811

Per Unit 

$5,432

Per Cluster

INCLUDES:
Hardware support, a
ssisted
management, and
team training

Years Two and Three


$1,410

Per Unit

$4,229

Per Cluster

INCLUDES:
Hardware support only

Years Four+


$995

Per Unit

$2,984

Per Cluster

INCLUDES:
Hardware support, hardware refresh, or price discounting options

Approximate cluster max capacity of 8GB/4vCPU VMs with their workload: 425

Expected usage of 8GB/4vCPU VMs with their workload: 340

 

It’s really awesome to work with someone who’s aligned culturally to the same type of mission that we are. And it’s really provided us with the ability to innovate and differentiate from the masses that are out there all using the same hyperscalers.

Tom Fanelli, CEO & Co-Founder @ Convesio


Convesio found more reliable and cost-effective support for their growing business.

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 Agreements That Work Your Way


In addition to the advantages of an OpenStack private cloud environment, your OpenMetal on-demand private cloud includes unique service and support agreements that make financial sense for your team.

One Year of Assisted Management = Reduced Staff Overhead

OpenMetal will provide assisted management during year one and train your team to run OpenStack and Ceph, keeping supporting IT staff (and OpEx costs) at a minimum, right from the start.

Hardware Refresh Assessments = Potential Cost Reductions

Customers with four or more years of service on their  infrastructure may choose to refresh their hardware or benefit from significant price reductions or discounts.

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Do Alternative Cloud Provider Prices Compare to Public Clouds?

Looking at the estimated monthly costs (per VM) over three+ years of service, it is easy to understand the savings (or profitability) that OpenMetal on-demand private cloud offers vs. popular public cloud providers.

AWS^

4vCPU/8GB VM


Est. Monthly VM Costs 

Y1: $68.44

Y2/Y3: $68.44  

Y4+: $68.44 

OpenMetal*

4vCPU/8GB VM


Est. Monthly VM Costs

Y1: $15.98 

Y2/Y3: $12.44

Year 4+: $8.78

OpenMetal Savings

4vCPU/8GB VM 


Est. Monthly Savings

Y1: 77%

Y2/Y3: 82%

Y4+: 87%

 ^EC2 instance savings plan, three year commit, a1.xlarge (ARM, not Intel), provisioned IOPS 500, 30GB storage – gathered 3/2/2022.

*NVMe block storage, >1000 IOPS/VM, 30-60GB storage available, calculated at 340VMs and not max.

 

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Improve Performance With Tuned Clouds

Public clouds were not built for your specific use case. With private cloud, numerous modification are available with your root level configuration options, including some of the options below.

Development Pipeline Acceleration

  • In dev pipelines, most (or all) data being produced and manipulated is ephemeral. It must be processed quickly, but it is often throwaway. VMs with direct NVMe storage will move that data through the system faster than you ever have before.
  • When your team is ready, Kubernetes is native to the private cloud and is self-service for the developers, meaning no complicated interaction between dev and systems. 
  • Development teams can be assigned self-service virtual private clouds that are self-contained, with API first, CLI, and GUI enabled. Get your developers on their way fast.

Database Acceleration

  • Create specific VM flavors that match your database needs. Need 32vCPU with 8GB of RAM for your MariaDB? Easy. Want 32GB of vRAM with 8vCPUs for your Redis? Sure.
  • Select specific disk I/O performance for your databases. For example, massive performance gains come from running your replicated databases in VMs using direct NVMe storage. Galera, for example, already has replication at the database level. Don’t introduce lag by using block storage on slow network storage or even RAID.

Compute Options

  • Sometimes VMs are the right tool, sometimes containers are better, and sometimes containers in VMs are the best. All are native to your private cloud.
  • Create your own flavors for resource allotments.
  • Restrict to your company-approved OS images.
  • Addition of servers for your GPUs, FPGAs, and other specific hardware is supported.

Object Storage Efficiencies and Acceleration

  • Compression on the fly during object placement can dramatically increase the efficiency of your storage pool. Think 10TB only taking up 7TB once stored.
  • Data transformations can be done on the fly during object placement and thus can alleviate costly work in your applications.
  • Object placement is much faster when the compute and object storage are right on the same switches and VLANs. And, there are no transfer fees.

Wondering if something is supported? Review OpenStack services or Ceph object storage.

An Alternative Cloud Provider to the Mega Clouds

The mega public cloud providers are expensive, inflexible, and not a good fit for many organizations. Private cloud is typically a more cost-effective option, but carries significant risk of failure, time delays, and OpEx efficiency problems. To resolve these challenges, OpenMetal on-demand clouds give you the best of traditional public cloud, private cloud, and bare metal fused into an open source platform. It is one of the newest and fastest growing cloud deployment models.

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Open source is behind all cloud software, public or private. To keep the technology available to all, it is critical to support and use systems that enable all users to have access fully to the complex ecosystem.

OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation does just that. By doing so, OpenMetal can offer on-demand OpenStack private cloud to you at a fair price for a great system.

OpenMetal is a supporter of open source projects and a sponsor of the OpenInfra Foundation. In addition, we donate private cloud to Zuul, the CI/CD project and team running the OpenStack development pipeline.

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