FAQ Friday

Frequently asked questions about Oxide and our product

What is Oxide?

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Why Does Oxide Use Rust?

match value { ┌─────────┐ Enum::A, ├──┐ Enum::B, │ ├──┐ … ├──┤ ├──┐ Enum::Z │ │ │ │ └─────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │

Is the Oxide Service Processor a BMC?

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Does Oxide Have Instance Types?

gen size │ │ │ ┌────┴┐ c7gn.2xlarge │ └┤ │ │ family │ capabilities

All FAQs

How Does Oxide Think About the Supply Chain?New

What is the Lifespan of the Oxide Cloud Computer?

How is Oxide Able to Air Cool the Rack?

How is Oxide Different from Hyperscaler Infrastructure?

Why Can’t the Commodity Server Vendors Just Do What Oxide’s Done?

What Is Oxide Doing About System Management Mode (SMM)?

Why Use Oxide Instead of the Public Cloud?

Can’t I Just Build My Own Cloud Computer?

Why Does Oxide Talk About Fan Noise So Much?

Why Does the Oxide Power Shelf Have a Root of Trust?

Can I Reuse My Existing Servers with Oxide?

What’s the Differentiator for Oxide Computer Company?

How Does the Oxide Cloud Computer’s Power Shelf Work?

Can Oxide Run Across an Air Gap?

Why the Obsession with Diet Coke?

Is Oxide Hardware Made by Super Micro?

Why Does Oxide Use AMD EPYC Processors?

Which Network Operating System Does Oxide Use?

Was Oxide Crazy for Building Their Own Network Switch?

Why Did Oxide Raise $200M?

Can I Use Oxide to Satisfy Data Residency Requirements?

How Do I Integrate with the Oxide Computer?

Does Oxide Support Windows Instances?

What does it mean to love our customers?

Why do Oxide Compute Sleds have one Processor?

Can Oxide Run in an Air-Gapped Environment?

Is Oxide Ideal for CI/CD Runners?

Does Oxide Have Enterprise-Grade Support?

What Kubernetes Integrations Does Oxide Have?

How Does Oxide Manage Kubernetes?

How Does Oxide Engage Analysts?

What is the Minimum Configuration for Oxide?

Why Do Companies Move Workloads On-Prem?

Is Oxide a Mainframe?

How Long Does It Take to Deploy Oxide?

Does Oxide Have Software Licensing Fees?

How Do I Try Oxide?

Why Does Power Matter in the Data Center?

How Does Oxide Make Decisions?

What Happened to My Root Password?

Who is Oxide Built For?

How do I Customize Virtual Machine Images?

Does Oxide Have Instance Types?

Why Did Oxide Raise $100M?

Is Oxide a Private Cloud?

Why is it Called Oxide?

Is the Oxide Service Processor a BMC?

Why Does Oxide Use Rust?

What Skills Do You Need to Operate an Oxide System?

Is Oxide HCI?

Does Oxide Oversubscribe?

How Does Multi-tenancy Work in Oxide?

Does Oxide Phone Home?

Is Oxide for Virtual Machines or Containers?

What is Oxide?