FAQ Friday
Frequently asked questions about Oxide and our product
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?
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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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