Proven, field-tested, hardware specifications for cloud servers and networking.

Cloudscaling’s hardware blueprints define production-grade server and networking combinations that deliver predictable performance and costs.

Proven hardware blueprints

Hardware blueprints show how to implement a block design in physical hardware, to realize the design’s requirements for security, availability, and subscription rates. Blueprints strive to maximize system efficiency while minimizing total cost of ownership. Each set of blueprints incorporates best practices gleaned from Cloudscaling’s many successful production cloud deployments.

Designed for performance and price

These hardware configurations are designed to satisfy a customer’s service level requirements by creating a performance profile for CPU, disk I/O, network utilization, and other service level targets. Resource oversubscription rates for network bandwidth, CPU cores, and storage are calculated to achieve prescribed levels of service availability and average cost per unit.

Each hardware blueprint encompasses:

• Server and networking equipment specifications
• Configuration standards for BIOS and firmware
• Rack diagrams and stacking order
• Rack assembly guidelines: racking, cabling, and labeling

Certified hardware

Cloudscaling certified hardware vendors provide equipment aligned to specific hardware blueprints. Once assembled to match a particular blueprint, compliant hardware can be automatically provisioned by Open Cloud OS as a new, live block instance. Each new provisioned block instance then provides new virtual machine, storage, and/or networking capacity to the entire cloud system.