Hosted Private Cloud

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Hosted Private Cloud Architecture

From the New Leader in Private Cloud Innovation

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Linux Foundation - Silver Member

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The Cloud Awards

SuperUser Awards

FinOps Foundation - Member

CNCF - Silver Member

Leading the Market in Features


  • Enterprise class hardware, available fast
  • Data stored where you want and how you want
  • Built-in rich set of cloud features plus free add-ons
  • Go faster with a cloud matched to your workload

Leading the Market in Value


  • No license fees on VMs or other cloud resources
  • Set your hardware budget, no surprise bills
  • Fixed bandwidth costs for most use cases
  • Most customers saved 25%+ and many 50%+

Two Simple Building Blocks

OpenMetal Cloud Core

OpenMetal Private Cloud Core

All hosted private clouds start with a Cloud Core –  3 hyper-converged commercial grade servers, spun up as a service.

Your cloud is powered by OpenStack and Ceph. Robust, mature, API first, and with zero licensing costs. You will have everything from Compute/VMs and Block Storage to powerful software defined networking to trivial-to-deploy Kubernetes. Plus, Day 2 monitoring is built in to help you move fast with confidence.

Your hosted private cloud can deploy in as little as 45 seconds. This innovation saves time, money, and unlocks new capabilities like 100% self-service ordering.

Support Experts Who Care

We will align with your goals, teach you our tech, and support the powerful open source systems behind your hosted private cloud. In fact, this is part of our corporate mission!

We are ready to prove ourselves to you and in addition to our Support Pledge and SLAs, we offer:

  • 30 Day Money Back Guarantee for Self Service Clouds. Any agreement selected will only begin after the 30 day period.
  • When leveraging our Proof-of-Concept process there is no cost and your agreement only starts after your PoC.
  • Transparent Pricing. We don’t hide our prices and surprise you with some enterprise-level shock.

Tom Fanelli, CEO and Co-Founder

Convesio

Your team is the kind of people we would dream of having on our own team. And the great thing about working with you is that it feels like they are part of our team. This quickly won over trust with us.

Read Convesio’s Story >>

Nebo Nekolic - CEO @MyMiniFactory

Nebo Nikolic, CEO

OpenMetal Customer - MyMiniFactory

OpenMetal is an essential partner that aligns with our values and ambitions. They grasp the significance of fostering creativity and building a strong sense of community. They are an extension of who we are.

Read MyMiniFactory’s Story >>

Gary MacDougall, CTO at Pypestream

Gary MacDougall, CTO

Pypestream logo

We are now able to spin up new environments very cost-effectively, get to market faster with our solutions, and still create an agile environment that supports existing production customers while enabling net-new customer opportunities.

Read Pypestream’s Story >>

Arys Andreou, Head of Infrastructure at MyMiniFactory

Arys Andreou, Head of Infrastructure

OpenMetal Customer - MyMiniFactory

I would definitely recommend OpenMetal. The key points would be an excellent support staff with deep knowledge and troubleshooting steps that are relevant to the issue and don’t begin with the basics.

Read MyMiniFactory’s Story >>

Hosted Private Cloud and Platform FAQs

Yes. We have yet to find a workload that cannot be run on either our OpenStack Cloud or our Bare Metal. If you can dream it, we can help you run it!

Also, if for any reason it is not a fit, you have a self service 30 day money back guarantee or the 30 days free PoC time. No obligations or lock-in.

OK! We have a section for you below. Of note, accounts are assigned an “Executive Sponsor” from our side. It may be a Director or up to our President. You will have access to a peer that can clear the way for you, deal with any complications on the team or with the cloud, and provide business insights.

Simple answer, we have done this before for customers in many different situations. Longer answer – of course, results will differ but they are based on if you are over the “tipping point” where private cloud beats out public cloud. There are three major factors to consider.

  • Is your team highly technical? If so, running an OpenMetal hosted private cloud is not much different, skillset wise, to what is needed to maintain a health fleet of VMs, storage, and networking on public cloud. It can actually improve your operational time spent on troubleshooting and architecting as our team is much more available than any top engineers from major cloud providers.
  • Public cloud is a good solution when clouds spends are below $10k/month or less. Hosted private cloud is a close cousin to public cloud – spin up on demand, transparent pricing – but scale is important to get the most value from private cloud. Talk to our team about your current spend and your goal. If you are below $10k/month we suggest reading our Public vs Private Cloud Cost Tipping Point article.
  • Does your team spend a lot of time trying to maximize the costs of their public cloud resources? Or time spent bills don’t accidentally balloon? Private clouds are fundamentally more efficient and have fixed costs. This time wasting by your staff will greatly be greatly reduced or gone. They can then focus where they need to focus.

If one or more of the above are true, we have found that, particularly for deployments on public cloud costing over $20k/month, we will get you close to a 50% reduction. Also, if for any reason we are not a fit, you have a self service 30 day money back guarantee or the 30 days free PoC time. No obligations or lock-in.

It is slightly different for the self service vs the PoC process but you can count on the following:

  • An Account Manager, Account Engineer, and an Executive Sponsor will be assigned from our side
  • You will be invited to our Slack for Engineer to Engineer support
  • Your Account Manager will collect your goals and we will align our efforts to your success
  • You can meet with your support team via Google Meets (or the video system of your choice) up to weekly to help keep the process on schedule
  • Migration planning if existing workloads are being brought over
  • Discussion on agreements and potential discounts via ramps if moving workloads over time

OpenMetal uses open source technology for all major systems. There are no license fees for any OpenStack feature supplied in the standard cloud system or for any features supplied by additional OpenStack components. We do include access to Datadog for hardware node monitoring included in the cost of the cloud. If you elect to use Datadog for something other than the included hardware node monitoring, you would need to pay Datadog directly for this.

The network performance for 2023 was 99.994% and for 2024 it is tracking similar. The base SLA is 99.96%.

Ashburn, Virginia, East Coast USA. Los Angeles, California, West Coast USA. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Central Europe. Need another location? We are expanding! See our Data Centers. Certifications include: SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53/FISMA, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 50001, LEED Gold.

We offer two levels of support to allow companies to choose what is best for them. A third, custom level is also available.

All clouds come with the first level of support included within the base prices:

  • All hardware, including servers, switches/routers, power systems, cooling systems, and racks are handled by OpenMetal. This includes drive failures, power supply failures, chassis failures, etc. Though very rarely needed, assistance with recovery of any affected cloud services due to hardware failure is also included.
  • Procurement, sales taxes, fit for use as a cloud cluster member, etc. are all handled by OpenMetal.
  • Provisioning of the initial, known good cloud software made up of Ceph and OpenStack.
  • Providing new, known good versions of our cloud software for optional upgrades. OpenMetal may, at its discretion, assist with upgrades free of charge, but upgrades are the responsibility of the customer.
  • Support to customer’s operational/systems team for cloud health issues.

The second level of support is termed Assisted Management and has a base plus hardware unit fee. In addition to the first level of support, the following is offered with Assisted Management:

  • Named Account Engineer.
  • Engineer to Engineer support for cloud.
  • Engineer to Engineer advice on key issues or initiatives your team has for workloads on your OpenMetal Cloud.
  • Upgrades are handled jointly with OpenMetal assisting with cloud software upgrades.
  • Assisting with “cloud health” issues, including that we jointly monitor key health indicators and our 24/7 team will react to issues prior to or with your team.
  • Monthly proactive health check and recommendations.

In addition, OpenMetal publishes extensive documentation for our clouds and many System Administration teams prefer to have that level of control with their private cloud hosting.

Building an OpenStack and Ceph cloud is much harder than running a well architected cloud. Your OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud is “Day 2 ready” and is relatively easy to maintain. In fact, this technology has a very high resource to Admin ratio and can increase job satisfaction for Admins as clouds are fundamentally resilient to hardware issues and can lead to less emergency responses.

Skilled Linux System Administrators can learn to maintain an OpenMetal Cloud in about 40 hours using our provided Cloud Administrator Guides and we will give you free time on non-production test clouds for this purpose. Most teams view this new technology as a learning opportunity for their team and as the workload shifts to your hosted private cloud, time on the old systems are reduced accordingly.

We also offer our Assisted Management level of service. This is popular for first time customers and is quite reasonable. It covers most situations, including that we jointly monitor “cloud health” and our 24/7 team will react to issues prior to or with your team.

Your OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud is “Day 2 ready” and is relatively easy to maintain but does require a solid set of Linux System Administration basics to handle any customizations or “cloud health” work.

For companies without a Linux Admin Ops team, we recommend our Assisted Management level of service. It covers most situations, including that we jointly monitor “cloud health” and our 24/7 team will react to issues prior to or with your team.

You may also consider having your team grow into running the underlying cloud over time. A properly-architected OpenStack Cloud can have very low time commitments to maintain in a healthy state. A junior Linux System Administrator can learn to maintain an OpenMetal Cloud in about 120 hours using our provided Cloud Administrator Guides and we will give you free time on non-production test clouds for this purpose. OpenMetal is unique in offering free time for customers on completely separate on-demand OpenStack Clouds. This new learning opportunity could dramatically change both your staff and your company’s view on private cloud.

Get Started With Your First Hosted Private Cloud

Any agreement selected will only begin after the PoC period or 30 day money back period.

Self Service Launch

Pay Today, Launch Today

50% off first 2 months with 1 year+ agreement
30 day money back guarantee
Transparent pricing
Launch immediately after account verification
Default cloud deployments
Learn as you go with engineering support
Popular with do-it-yourself technical teams
Customize your support level
Month to month and 1-5 year term agreements
Upgrade to assisted management at any time

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Assisted Launch

Proof of Concept to Production

30 day free proof of concept deployment time
No commitment to start
Transparent pricing
Launch after consultation and training
Default and custom cloud deployments
Engineer to engineer training
Recommended for large migrations
Customize your support level
1-5 year term agreements
Migration assistance and performance testing

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Self-Serve Trial

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Great for learners or casual testers
Self-serve short term 8 hour trials
Requires additional verification information
No account manager or engineer
Limited hardware and region choices
Upgrade anytime

Recommended Cloud Cores for Self Service

When selecting a Cloud Core we have general guidelines based on your workloads or your business model. It is trivial to change between Cloud Cores before placing workloads and your Account Manager can help you decide and spin up and down Cloud Cores.

More drives allow for flexibility of storage configurations to match specific cost versus performance goals. At scale, Large and XL Clouds are more efficient than Standard Clouds.

See OpenMetal for SaaS Providers.

Efficiency and features are key in your business model. Start as small as possible with all the storage features and expand as your customer base expands.

See OpenMetal for Public Cloud and Hosting Providers

Development pipelines should be fast and reliable but do not require the total resources or high-availability of production.

See our Pypestream on OpenMetal User Story.

All the storage options, simple footprint, and a price point that will beat out all the public clouds by 40%+ with no compromises.

See OpenMetal vs Traditional Public Cloud.

 Most big data customers run large bare metal servers for their big data and use the cloud for orchestration, monitoring, and ad-hoc resource needs.

See OpenMetal for Big Data Infrastructure.

The balanced set of Compute and Storage is very cost effective for mixed workloads that are commonly found for MSPs using private cloud hosting.

See OpenMetal for Managed Service Providers.

The Large or XL is dependent on your company size. The balanced set of compute and storage is very cost effective for mixed workloads.

See OpenMetal for Large Deployments.

Keep your costs low while letting your team spin up resources without a constant fear of racking up a crippling bill.

See OpenMetal vs Traditional Public Cloud.

30 day money back guarantee for self-service clouds. Any agreement selected will only begin after the guarantee period.

Standard V2.1

Large V2.1

XL V2.1

3 X 8C/16T, 128GB, 3.2TB NVMe
3 X 16C/32T, 512GB, 12.8TB NVMe

3 X 32C/64T, 1TB, 25.6TB NVMe

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Development, PoCs, Small Production

Medium growing to large deployments

Large existing deployments

4-10 Virtual Private Clouds40+ Virtual Private Clouds100+ Virtual Private Clouds
RAM
384GB1.5TB3TB
CPU/vCPUs (about ratios)
24C/48T96C/192T192C/384T
66 to 198 vCPUs354 to 1062 vCPUs738 to 2214 vCPUs
Up to 16 vCPUs per VMUp to 64 vCPUs per VMUp to 128 vCPUs per VM
Storage
9.6TB RAW NVMe 338.4TB RAW NVMe 476.8TB RAW NVMe 4
3.2TB Triplicate HA NVMe12.8TB Triplicate HA NVMe 425.6TB Triplicate HA NVMe 4
 

or

19.2TB Duplicate HA NVMe 4

or

38.4TB Duplicate HA NVMe 4

Network
~9TB (60mbps) egress included~18TB (120mbps) egress included~36TB (240mbps) egress included
Additional egress at fair costsAdditional egress at fair costsAdditional egress at fair costs
Free intra cluster transferFree intra cluster transferFree intra cluster transfer
DDoS protectionDDoS protectionDDoS protection
20gbit connection/server20gbit connection/server20gbit connection/server
Pricing
Month to Month, 1-5 Year Agreements

Month to Month, 1-5 Year Agreements

1-5 Year Agreements

$812.16/mo

3 Year Agreement

$3369.60/mo

3 Year Agreement

$5944.32/mo

3 Year Agreement

$1343.16/mo

3 Year, with Assisted Management

$4224.60/mo

3 Year, with Assisted Management

$6826.32/mo

3 Year, with Assisted Management

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Account Managers

Advocates and experts to help design, organize, and optimize your plan.

Engineers

Ready to guide, train, and configure against your priorities.

Business Analysts

Calculate ROIs, manage migrations, and keep the teams aligned.

Executive Sponsors

Business and technology executives are available to your leadership as needed.

 

Introduction to On-Demand Hosted Private Cloud for CTOs

Discover the key benefit of on-demand private cloud, a new tool in the CTOs toolkit that combines the advantages of both public and private cloud hosting. In this video, OpenMetal’s President, Todd Robinson, dives into the cost considerations and target workloads that can empower Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and other technical executives to harness the potential of private cloud as-a-service for effective cloud cost management.

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Private Cloud Hosting With Transparent Pricing

With OpenMetal as your hosted private cloud provider, you can rely on transparent pricing with no surprise fees or bills. Egress pricing is fair and dramatically less than public cloud hosting. Check Egress Pricing.

As a fusion of public cloud and private cloud hosting attributes, OpenMetal also brings benefits typically not associated with private cloud. Scale easily, both up and down, just like public cloud hosting, but without the unpredictable costs. You can set budget limits directly inside OpenMetal Central, our top-level control panel.

Achieve your desired performance and cost-saving goals with the tipping point pricing leader.

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Private Cloud Hosting Feature Highlight – Ceph and LVM

Our high-availability cloud storage is powered by Ceph, the latest and most performant open source Object Storage system available on the market to date. You can grow and shrink data storage as needed.

Your cloud can also directly use disks through LVM. Single drive LVM offers maximum performance at the lowest storage overhead. Mirrored drive options offer some redundancy with high performance but with usable to raw overhead.

Explore object storage, block storage, or see all features.

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OpenMetal Compute / Converged Hosted Private Cloud

Hosted Private Cloud vs On-Premise

Private clouds hosted by OpenMetal allow you to deploy applications and store data on a flexible infrastructure without having to invest in hardware, software, and, often for on-prem, additional staff. Because our infrastructure is configured to serve a wide array of organizations, your business will benefit from this large scale. This includes the availability of more resources to provision and on-demand scalability options.

For on-premises deployments, many hardware manufacturers will release Reference Architectures that a skilled system admin and engineering team can follow. This typically requires high level skills in networking, server hardware, the cloud software itself, like OpenStack, a storage software like Ceph, and monitoring. The cost of creation of an on-premise private cloud is significant.

Also, with the decision to adopt an on-premise private cloud, a business must account for costs of maintenance. This includes dealing with hardware failures and other possible disaster incidents. This is one of the most important things to evaluate between a hosted vs on-premise private cloud. OpenMetal offers three levels of management: hardware only, assisted management (most popular), and a custom Managed Private Cloud level.

We highly recommend that a finance-driven member is also on the team to focus on “Cost per VM” and “Cost per GB Storage”. These costs are typically used to represent the overall efficiency of your system and should include all costs, cap-ex and op-ex. Here at OpenMetal your account manager can help you with cost models.

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Uniquely Powerful Multi-Cloud Solution

With OpenMetal as your hosted private cloud provider, adding private cloud infrastructure brings more power than any other system.

Multiple Separate Clouds

Trivial to deploy clouds means new options to separate for governance, security, or performance.

Unified Cloud With Regions

Need multiple clouds in different regions but want central control? That is native to OpenMetal.

Ultra Connected

Aggregate bandwidth of 200Gbits per PoP. Up to 20Gbits to individual servers. DDOS protection included. 

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