OVHcloud Dedicated High Grade Bare Metal Servers with Xeon Gold Processors for Intensive Workloads

OVHcloud SAS announces dedicated high grade Bare Metal servers featuring top-of-the-line Xeon Gold 5^th Gen processors.

Further democratizing innovation, the new Bare Metal servers are aimed at demanding, mission critical and sensitive workloads, such as confidential computing, HPC and virtualization. The firm’s High Grade Bare Metal line benefits from Intel TDX technology as well as new built-in accelerators for added performance, all the while answering the many challenges of hyperconverged and storage infrastructures.

At the heart of the OVHcloud HCI, SDS and STOR lines lies Intel Emerald Rapids microarchitecture. It provides more compute and faster memory while improving security. Technologies like TDX stand for strengthened VM isolation offering the most straightforward path to a greater security, compliance and control for legacy apps.

“We’re excited to deliver a higher throughput and an improved efficiency with our 5^th Gen Intel Xeon processors, offering increased confidentiality at the VM level without compromising performance. With its built-in accelerator engines, 5^th Gen Intel Xeon speeds up AI workloads, encryption, data compression, and data movement between nodes,” said Jean-Laurent Philippe, CTO, EMEA, Intel Corp.

“We are thrilled to refresh our most advanced solutions with the latest and greatest x86 CPU options in configurations that address the many needs of our customers, from solving hyper-converged infrastructures challenges to addressing the ever-growing needs for storage all with the benefits of our trusted cloud offering an unmatched performance-price ratio,” said Yaniv Fdida, chief product technology officer, OVHcloud.

Xeon Gold 5^th Gen powered HGR-HCI and HGR-SDS lineup
The HGR-HCI lineup is aimed at HCIs. It features Intel’s 5th of Xeon Gold processors in a dual-processor configuration. Starting with Xeon Gold 5515+ in a 2×8 cores (2×16 threads) configuration (HGR-HCI-i1) it goes up to Xeon Gold 6554S in 2×36 cores (2×72 threads) configurations (HGR-HCI-i4). Equipped with 256GB of base DDR5 memory, all HGR-HCI-i flavors come with 2x960GB SSD storage option that can be further customized when ordering with additional SSD capacity up to 3.84TB.

The HGR-SDS lineup targets SDS infrastructures for use cases such as database, platform object storage and big data. The range is now equipped with Xeon Gold 5th Gen chips in a dual-processor configuration. HGR-SDS-1 Bare Metal server is powered by an Xeon Gold 5515+ CPU in a 2×8 cores (2×16 threads) configuration and HGR-SDS-2 features Xeon Gold 6542Y in 2×24 cores (2×48 threads) configuration. Both HGR-SDS-1 and HGR-SDS-2 are loaded with 256GB of DDR5 memory (can be configured to up to 1.5TB) and feature a 2x960GB based system SSD with options for SSD based storage at 3.84, 7.68 or 15.36TB.

The heavy storage variant of Bare Metal servers, HGR-STOR, designed for use cases such as archiving, DR and databases has also been updated. HGR-STOR-1 is powered by the Xeon Gold 6554S in a single processor configuration. With 36 cores and 72 threads, it comes 128GB of DDR5 (up to 768GB). The HGR-STOR-1 is equipped with a 2×960 GB SSD-based storage and boasts additional storage of up to 36x22TB SAS HDD for a whopping 792TB in total. Customers can opt for a cache option with capacity up to 2x15TB to further optimize their storage performance.

Unmetered guaranteed bandwidth with up to 25Gb/s private network
The company HGR-HCI-i, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR-1 benefit from all the advantages of dedicated servers when it comes to flexibility, control, performance, and availability as well as 1 to 10Gb/s guaranteed and unmetered public bandwidth and up to 25Gb/s of unmetered private bandwidth. Through this offering, the firm also provides companies with the best possible support for their workloads, environments, and ad-hoc technologies, while guaranteeing predictable pricing.

To further streamline resiliency, the company’s HGR-HCI-i, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR-1 servers benefit from a private network built from the ground up for redundancy. With 2x25Gb/s links, the private network of those servers ensures critical applications and their data remain accessible so business operations continue uninterrupted.

Data protection and sustainability
The HGR-HCI-i, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR-1 Bare Metal servers also benefit from the company’s expertise in infrastructure, offering a trusted cloud in environmentally friendly data centers. With the highest security and data protection standards in the form of ISO 27001 certification and HDS, customers benefit from a trusted cloud. The firm’s data centers take advantage of the company’s industrial model with a water-cooling system that contributes in a sustainable cloud allowing to reach best-in-class PUE/WUE indexes (see more data here).

Availability:

• Bare Metal HGR-HCI-i1 (2x8c/16t), HGR-HCI-i2 (2x16c/32t), HGR-HCI-i3 (2x24c/48t), HGR-HCI-i4 (2x36c/72t) are available for order.
• Bare Metal HGR-SDS-1 (2x8x/16t) and HGR-SDS-2 (2x24c/48t) are available now. Bare Metal HGR-STOR-1 is scheduled for availability later this month.
• HGR-HCI-I, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR are available in the firm’s data centers located in Canada, France, Germany, Poland, UK, USA and APAC.