Private Cloud built on OpenStack
Deploy a production-ready, hosted private cloud powered by OpenStack and Ceph — in under a minute. No building. No waiting. No hardware management.
Your Own Private Cloud with OpenMetal
Built for Control. Priced for Predictability. Powered by Open Source.
Full Control
Full root access and admin-level control across your infra stack. Real-time provisioning and API-driven automation with OpenStack.
Transparent Pricing
Predictable monthly pricing. No surprise bandwidth charges. Infrastructure costs you can actually budget around.
Freedom from Lock-In
100% open-source stack built on OpenStack & Ceph. No proprietary licensing fees. No public cloud penalties. Migrate on your terms.
Leaving Public Cloud? Save Big and Gain Control.
The Challenge: Public cloud bills can quickly spiral, especially at scale, with unpredictable egress, overprovisioned services, and hidden fees.
The OpenMetal Solution:
- 30–60% Total Savings compared to AWS/GCP/Azure for sustained workloads
- Predictable monthly billing with included bandwidth and no surprise fees
- Built for scale — ideal for steady usage, backups, BI, analytics, dev/test, SaaS, etc.
“Our private cloud users see on average ~30–60% lower infrastructure costs and gain full control of their environment.”
30–60%
Cost Savings
vs. AWS / GCP / Azure
Zero License Fees
Open-source OpenStack eliminates vendor lock-in
Moving Off VMware? We Make It Easy.
The Challenge: VMware's licensing changes, rising costs, and Broadcom's acquisition are creating uncertainty and limiting flexibility.
The OpenMetal Solution:
- Zero proprietary license fees — open-source OpenStack eliminates vendor lock-in
- Migrate with confidence — no hard sell-off, just expert guidance and POC assistance
- Future-proof infrastructure — scalable, flexible, secure, backed by Ceph and OpenStack
“You have total control over your infrastructure — no restrictive terms, predictable costs, and support as you transition.”
“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.”
Arys Andreou, Head of Infrastructure
“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.”
Tom Fanelli, CEO and Co-Founder
“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.”
Nebo Nikolic, CEO
OpenMetal — The Fastest Path to OpenStack
All OpenMetal Hosted Private Clouds are powered by OpenStack and Ceph, and start with a Cloud Core — a hyper-converged architecture comprised of three servers of your selected hardware configuration, provisioned as a service.
- The Cloud Core is deployed using industry-standard tools, Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible, ensuring a robust and scalable foundation.
- It delivers a fully operational control plane along with pre-configured block storage, object storage, compute resources, and networking infrastructure.
- Includes Ceph storage plus LVM (Logical Volume Manager) storage options.
- 100% of your servers in your VLANs, with root ownership, so you have complete flexibility to extend and customize your cloud environments.
- With the single-tenant environment you operate on dedicated infrastructure that offers all the security and control you expect with a private cloud.
- The Cloud Core incorporates essential OpenStack components, with additional services and extensions available upon request.
- Get right to using your cloud via Horizon, Terraform, or CLI.
- OpenMetal designed their OpenStack powered Private Clouds to seamlessly support both public cloud and private cloud workloads, offering versatility and scalability for diverse use cases.
First in the Industry
OpenMetal made OpenStack accessible to companies of all sizes with their OpenStack-powered On-Demand Hosted Private Cloud that could be deployed as-a-service in under a minute.
The chart shows how OpenMetal's Hosted Private Cloud stacks up against other Cloud Deployment Models based on Risk Level and Startup Time.
Scale your Cloud with Confidence
Fully Private & Production-Ready — Pre-Configured, Customizable, and Day-2 Operations Ready
OpenMetal's Private IaaS platform gives you the freedom to start small and grow at your own pace.
Launch with a single Private Cloud Core — complete with a fully functional control plane, compute, and storage — and seamlessly scale as your needs evolve.
Our flexible IaaS platform makes it easy to expand horizontally by adding bare metal servers, storage clusters, and additional clouds, all connected through secure private networking built into the OpenMetal architecture.
Whether you're a fast-growing business or a large enterprise, OpenMetal delivers a solution that's enterprise-ready from day one while still allowing you to start with a minimal footprint.
“OpenStack is a critical part of open source alternatives to the mega public clouds. Our focus on “easy to deploy and manage” OpenStack will give more options for small and medium businesses to join the OpenStack user base.”
Todd Robinson
Co-Founder and President, OpenMetal
“OpenMetal Cloud provides on-demand private infrastructure, which brings cloud fundamentals like elasticity and usage billing to the cloud deployment itself. It’s awesome to see OpenMetal’s latest product use OpenStack to combine the benefits of public cloud and managed private cloud, powered by open infrastructure.”
Thierry Carrez
GM, OpenInfra Foundation
“This [OpenMetal Cloud] is what OpenStack has been needing. This enables more people to figure out a path to production with OpenStack. People now have this opportunity to tap into the power of OpenStack.”
Mark Collier
Chief Operating Officer, OpenStack Foundation
Mission Fueled by Open Source
We believe that open source is a fundamental good in the IT world as it creates collaboration across the globe, opens doors for people who want to change their future, and encourages successes to be built on other successes for a collective good. OpenMetal is a Silver Member of the OpenInfra Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the development and adoption of open-source software for building and running scalable cloud infrastructure.
OpenStack Powered Private Cloud Pricing
OpenMetal pioneered hosted OpenStack as a service to make OpenStack more accessible to all. Our pricing model is fully transparent and online — a first for the private cloud space — with customers saving as much as 60% when they move from public cloud.
Cloud Core — 3 Servers per Configuration
All Cloud Core configurations include 3 servers. Storage & Compute nodes and IP Blocks available as add-ons. Connect with Sales for detailed pricing.
Get Started on OpenStack
OpenMetal believes that a hands-on approach is the most effective way to determine if our infrastructure meets your requirements. We offer options for you and your team to explore and evaluate the OpenMetal platform before committing to a long-term project.
Serious buyer
Proof of Concept (PoC) Cloud Trial
Robust testing before purchase. Get a dedicated environment with full support to validate your workloads and migration path.
Casual tester
Self-Serve Cloud Trial
Quick peek under the hood. Sign up and get instant access to explore OpenStack in a self-service environment.
View extended comparison between PoC and Self-Serve trials. Have a question? Contact us.
OpenStack Services on Your Hosted Private Cloud
APIs and CLI — Functionality for administering your hosted private cloud resources are available via API first and foremost, with a powerful CLI for fast and easy access.
Cloud Management Dashboard
Horizon
Web-based GUI for users to access their assigned resources. Creating VMs, networks, firewall rules, and more can all be done by users of the hosted private cloud.
Orchestration
Heat
Heat orchestrates infrastructure resources for cloud applications based on templates in the form of text files that can be treated like code.
Compute
Nova
KVM based virtual machines can be created, scaled, and destroyed easily through an interface or via authenticated API calls.
Block Storage
Cinder
Persistent storage volumes can be created, deleted, and attached to VMs easily. Includes high-availability Ceph based block storage by default.
Object Storage Access
Swift
Standardized REST API access to various types of object storage. Hyper-converged cloud cores have HA Ceph-based object storage by default.
Network as a Service
Neutron
Create routers, switches, and security groups. Provision networks and organize rules for public and private IP address usage.
Identity
Keystone
All parts of the hosted private cloud leverage a universal and secure authentication system.
Virtual Machine Images
Glance
A catalog of VM images are available to spin up servers easily. Additional VM images can be manually created and stored for use.
Additional OpenStack Services / Integrations
Zun
OpenStack Zun enables containers to compute.
Manila
OpenStack Manila enables Ceph shared file systems.
Barbican
Barbican enables secrets as a service.
Trove
OpenStack Trove enables database as a service.
Kuryr
OpenStack Kuryr bridges networking for Kubernetes to OpenStack networks.
Tacker
OpenStack Tacker powers network function virtualization.
OpenStackCLI
Command line interface to OpenStack API.
Kolla-Ansible
The Ansible used to create your clouds are available for easy cloud extension.
If you are looking for additional background information you may be interested in our article How to Build a Private Cloud on OpenStack but we highly recommend you start with hosted OpenStack to learn to operate the cloud before having to architect it.
FAQs
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Let us know what you are looking to do with your OpenStack deployment and our cloud sales team will promptly get back to you.
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