Does Oxide Support Windows Instances? / FAQ Friday / Oxide

23 Jan 2026

How Do I Integrate with the Oxide Computer?

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16 Jan 2026

Does Oxide Support Windows Instances?

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26 Dec 2025

What does it mean to love our customers?

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19 Dec 2025

Why do Oxide Compute Sleds have one Processor?

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12 Dec 2025

Can Oxide Run in an Air-Gapped Environment?

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5 Dec 2025

Is Oxide Ideal for CI/CD Runners?

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21 Nov 2025

Does Oxide Have Enterprise-Grade Support?

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14 Nov 2025

What Kubernetes Integrations Does Oxide Have?

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7 Nov 2025

How Does Oxide Manage Kubernetes?

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31 Oct 2025

How Does Oxide Engage Analysts?

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24 Oct 2025

What is the Minimum Configuration for Oxide?

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17 Oct 2025

Why Do Companies Move Workloads On-Prem?

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10 Oct 2025

Is Oxide a Mainframe?

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3 Oct 2025

How Long Does It Take to Deploy Oxide?

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26 Sep 2025

Does Oxide Have Software Licensing Fees?

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19 Sep 2025

How Do I Try Oxide?

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12 Sep 2025

Why Does Power Matter in the Data Center?

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5 Sep 2025

How Does Oxide Make Decisions?

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29 Aug 2025

What Happened to My Root Password?

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22 Aug 2025

Who is Oxide Built For?

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15 Aug 2025

How do I Customize Virtual Machine Images?

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8 Aug 2025

Does Oxide Have Instance Types?

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1 Aug 2025

Why Did Oxide Raise $100M?

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25 Jul 2025

Is Oxide a Private Cloud?

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11 Jul 2025

Why is it Called Oxide?

4 Jul 2025

Is the Oxide Service Processor a BMC?

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27 Jun 2025

Why Does Oxide Use Rust?

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20 Jun 2025

What Skills Do You Need to Operate an Oxide System?

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13 Jun 2025

Is Oxide HCI?

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6 Jun 2025

Does Oxide Oversubscribe?

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23 May 2025

How Does Multi-tenancy Work in Oxide?

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16 May 2025

Does Oxide Phone Home?

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9 May 2025

Is Oxide for Virtual Machines or Containers?

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2 May 2025

What is Oxide?

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