Europe-based OVHcloud has released dedicated high-grade bare metal servers featuring top-of-the-line Intel Xeon Gold 5th Generation processors suited for demanding, mission-critical and sensitive workloads, such as confidential computing, HPC and virtualisation.
The new OVHcloud line benefits from Intel TDX technology and new built-in accelerators for added performance, answering the many challenges of hyper-converged and storage infrastructures.
“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 infrastructure challenges to addressing the ever-growing storage needs – all with the benefits of our trusted cloud offering an unmatched performance-price ratio,” said Yaniv Fdida, Chief Product Technology Officer at OVHcloud.
The HGR-HCI lineup is aimed at hyper-converged infrastructures. It features Intel’s fifth generation of Xeon Gold processors in a dual-processor configuration. Starting with Intel Xeon Gold 5515+ in a 2×8 cores (2×16 threads) configuration (HGR-HCI-i1), it goes up to Intel Xeon Gold 6554S in 2×36 cores (2×72 threads) configurations (HGR-HCI-i4). Equipped with 256 GB of base DDR5 memory, all HGR-HCI-i flavors come with 2×960 GB SSD storage option that can be further customised when ordering with additional SSD capacity up to 3.84 TB.
The HGR-SDS lineup targets software-defined storage infrastructures for use cases such as database, platform object storage and big data. The range is now equipped with Intel Xeon Gold Fifth Generation chips in a dual-processor configuration. HGR-SDS-1 bare metal server is powered by an Intel Xeon Gold 5515+ CPU in a 2×8 cores (2×16 threads) configuration and HGR-SDS-2 features Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y in 2×24 cores (2×48 threads) configuration. Both HGR-SDS-1 and HGR-SDS-2 are loaded with 256 GB of DDR5 memory (can be configured to up to 1.5 TB) and feature a 2x960GB based system SSD with options for SSD-based storage at 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB or 15.36 TB.
The heavy storage variant of bare metal servers, HGR-STOR, designed for use cases such as archiving, disaster recovery and databases, has also been updated. OVHcloud HGR-STOR-1 is now powered by the Intel Xeon Gold 6554S in a single processor configuration. With 36 cores and 72 threads, it comes with 128 GB of DDR5 (up to 768 GB). The HGR-STOR-1 is equipped with a 2x 960 GB SSD-based storage and boasts additional storage of up to 36×22 TB SAS HDD for a whopping 792 TB in total. Customers can opt for a cache option with capacity up to 2x 15 TB to optimise their storage performance further.
OVHcloud’s new 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 Gbps to 10 Gbps public bandwidth and up to 25 Gbps of unmetered private bandwidth. Through this offering, OVHcloud also provides companies with the best possible support for their workloads, environments and ad-hoc technologies.
To further streamline resiliency, OVHcloud’s new HGR-HCI-i, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR-1 servers benefit from a private network built from the ground up for redundancy. With two 25 Gbps links, the private network of those servers ensures critical applications and their data remain accessible so business operations continue uninterrupted.
“We are excited to deliver a higher throughput and an improved efficiency with our 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, offering increased confidentiality at the VM level without compromising performance,” said Intel’s Jean-Laurent Philippe. “With its built-in accelerator engines, 5th Gen Intel Xeon speeds up AI workloads, encryption, data compression, and data movement between nodes.”
The new OVHcloud HGR-HCI-i, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR-1 bare metal servers also benefit from OVHcloud’s well-known expertise in infrastructure, offering a trusted cloud in environmentally friendly data centres. With the highest security and data protection standards in the form of ISO 27001 certification and HDS, data is immune to extra-territorial laws. OVHcloud data centres take advantage of the company’s unique industrial model with a water-cooling system that contributes in a sustainable cloud allowing to reach best-in-class PUE and WUE indexes.
Bare metal HGR-HCI-i1 (2x8c/16t), HGR-HCI-i2 (2x16c/32t), HGR-HCI-i3 (2x24c/48t), HGR-HCI-i4 (2x36c/72t); HGR-SDS-1 (2x8x/16t), HGR-SDS-2 (2x24c/48t); and HGR-STOR-1 are available for order now at the data centre in Sydney.
New HGR-HCI-I, HGR-SDS and HGR-STOR are available from OVHcloud’s data centres located in Canada, France, Germany, Poland, UK, USA and the Asia Pacific.
