1.1 Metal Cloud Infrastructure service

Topics:

• What is the Metal Cloud Infrastructure service
• Metal Cloud Infrastructure service configurations
• RAM
• Disks
• Official documentation
• Operating system, network resources and connectivity

Metal Cloud Infrastructure is a bare metal server solution designed to provide maximum performance, configuration flexibility and full control over your infrastructure. You can choose dedicated physical servers and customize them with scalable hardware resources such as CPU, RAM and disks, as well as advanced network components and high-availability firewalls. It is ideal for mission-critical environments: you can choose from different Dell PowerEdge models and independently manage both the operating system and remote access via iDRAC or XClarity.

The entire infrastructure can be securely accessed through a FortiClient VPN connection. The VPN creates an encrypted channel between your workstation and the Metal Cloud Infrastructure network, providing secure access to servers, firewalls and management consoles (Proxmox and iDRAC).

When purchasing the Metal Cloud Infrastructure service, choose the Dell PowerEdge server model and configure CPU, RAM, disks and firewall according to your requirements.
 

Each server includes 128 GB DDR5 (ECC) RAM. During configuration, you can increase the RAM by choosing one of the following options:

Each server includes two 480 GB SATA SSD boot disks and three 1,920 GB SATA SSD data disks. When purchasing the Metal Cloud Infrastructure service, you can increase the number of data disks.

Server type

• Dell PowerEdge R7515 - official documentation;
• Dell PowerEdge R7615 - official documentation;
• Dell PowerEdge R7625 - official documentation.

CPU and GPU

• CPU - AMD EPYC 7313P - official documentation;
• CPU - AMD EPYC 9124 - official documentation;
• GPU - NVIDIA L40S - official documentation.

Controllers

• Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 H730 - official documentation;
• Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 11 H755 - official documentation.

Firewall type

• Fortinet FortiGate 60F in HA - official documentation;
• Fortinet FortiGate 60F UTP in HA - official documentation;
• Fortinet FortiGate 100F in HA - official documentation;
• Fortinet FortiGate 100F UTP in HA - official documentation.

Operating system

When configuring the service, you can choose to install the Proxmox operating system on the servers or select no operating system.

Network resources

When configuring the service, you must specify which remote server management tool you want to use:

• KVM - iDRAC;
• KVM - XClarity Controller 2 (XCC).

Connectivity

All Metal Cloud Infrastructure service configurations include 1 Gb/s connectivity with unlimited traffic.

Related guides:

Payment methods and automatic renewal

Configuring and customizing Metal Cloud Infrastructure

Managing Metal Cloud Infrastructure

First access to Metal Cloud Infrastructure