High-performance compute, network, reliability and scalability for businesses of all sizes.
Overview
Dedicated servers on-demand that are ideal for compute-intensive workloads at the edge.
By: Lumen Technologies
Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux
Management Software: Control Center
Delivery Methods: Self-service via our Edge Services Portal and Control Center
See how Edge Bare Metal works (1:30)
Account setup is completed with just a few clicks and Edge Bare Metal servers are designed to be available in an hour or less to minimize organizational downtime.
- Dedicated servers provisioned via our intuitive Control Portal or API calls
- Isolated environment as opposed to multi-tenancy
- Unified, consistent operations across CPU, memory and storage
- Quick ramp up for large numbers of customer-provided containers
- Bare metal cloud options offer increased scalability across our global edge network
32 cores, 384 GB RAM, 7,680 GB SSD
Dual Intel Xeon Gold ‑ 2x 5218N 2.3Ghz, 16C/32T, 10.4GT/s, 22M Cache, Turbo, HT (110W) DDR4‑2666 384GBytes Memory‑ 12x 32GB RDIMM, 3200MT/s, Dual Rank 4x25GE NICs ‑ 2x Mellanox ConnectX‑5 Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Low Profile 10.8Tbytes Storage
- 2x M.2 Sticks 240G (used for the OS)
- 4x 1.92TB SSD SAS Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot Plug
- 2x 1.6TB NVME
32 cores, 256 GB RAM, 2400 GB SSD
Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6226R Processor ‑ 2.9GHz, 16C/32T, DDR4‑2933, 150W CPU
Memory – 256GB Total ‑ 32GB DDR4 2933 VLP RDIM MTA18ADF4G72PZ‑2G9 SR x4 16Gb
- 1x 480GB NVME SSD ‑ 480GB 1DWPD M.2 80mm NVME SSD
- 2x 1TB NVME SSD ‑ 1TB 1DWPD 2.5" U.2 15mm PCIe NVME SSD
- 2x10Gbps connected
10 cores, 128 GB RAM, 480 GB SSD
Xeon Silver 4210 2.2GHz 10C/20T CPU
Memory - 128GB Total - 32GB DDR4 2933 VLP RDIM MTA18ADF4G72PZ-2G9 SR x4 16Gb
480GB SSD - 240GB 2.5" 2 DWPD 7mm SATA SSD
2x10Gbps connected
Pricing and Features
Prices shown are estimates and dependent on configurations.
| Utilization | 100% | 100% |
| Cores | 10 | 10 |
| RAM | 96 GB | 96 GB |
| Storage (SSD) | 480 GB | 480 GB |
| Self-service ordering | ||
| Multiple operating systems | ||
| Pay-as-you-go billing | ||
| Term-based billing option | ||
| Container bin packaging for more efficient hardware use | ||
| Flexible server and storage configurations | ||
| Intuitive self-service dashboard x
Dedicated servers provisioned via our Control Portal or API calls. |
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| Isolated environment as opposed to multi-tenancy | ||
| Creation of Admin, Tenant and User-Based roles | ||
| 32 cores | ||
| 384 GB RAM | ||
| 7,680 GB storage (SSD) | ||
*Listed rates are estimates, as configured. Rates available to qualifying customers for eligible United States data centers only. Not all configurations are available in all data centers. Resources charged hourly, even when bare metal servers are powered off. Monthly estimates based on 720 hours in a month, 30.42 days in a month 4.35 weeks in a month based on available locations. Charges are presented in the Estimator as a point in time estimate based on selections you choose in the tool, and as of the date it is created. The estimate cannot and should not be relied on as a final monthly price and is not a guarantee of the actual amounts you will owe and be responsible for paying if you elect to purchase and activate Edge Computing Solutions. Monthly estimate of charges does not reflect variability of month‑to‑month usage. Listed rates do not include applicable monthly recurring charges or any other setup fees, taxes, connectivity, bandwidth or other applicable charges or fees associated with activated services. Lumen reserves the right to update the pricing estimator and prices presented on it at any time without notice. Does not include operating system/software licensing cost. Build a quote for actual pricing and geographic availability.
Support and Service Options
Lumen offers multiple ways for you to get support for Edge network services. Our Edge Customer Care team is available and ready to assist 24/7 by phone at the regional toll-free numbers below.
- 24/7 support: online (knowledge base), chat, email/ticket, or phone
- 24/7 health monitoring and incident resolution of the Lumen Edge systems (e.g., physical servers, orchestration systems, virtualization management systems, data center hosting services, network architecture, and storage systems)
- Public Internet connectivity latency/interruption within the Lumen Edge network system (e.g., between servers).
- Determine that the server is ON/active and is reachable
FAQs
Each network is assigned its own IPv4 subnet (/29‑/26). The first four and last IP addresses are consumed by infrastructure configuration. Any additional IP addresses are unassigned and can be assigned as you see fit on your servers. Here's an example of a /29 subnet, which results in 3 of the 8 IPs being available for customer use:
- 1st IP – reserved for network address
- 2nd IP – router default gateway
- 3rd IP ‑ reserved for router1
- 4th IP – reserved for router2
- 5th‑7th IPs ‑ assigned to servers
- 8th IP ‑ reserved for network broadcast address
Each Edge Bare Metal size server has four 25‑Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, with two interfaces on each of two separate NIC cards. By default, all four interfaces are placed into a single link access group (LAG) or bond utilizing LACP for individual link monitoring.
Each server connects to two switches: 2x 25GE to switch A and 2x 25GE to switch B. These switches are in the same physical rack as the server. Each of these switches have multiple 100GE fiber connections to multiple other switches in the data center that create an ethernet switching fabric. This switching fabric can sustain full traffic capacity with any single switch or link failure.
Note: This switch redundancy means that a server can always expect up to 50 Gbps of throughput, even if one of its directly connected switches were to fail. While a server does have 100 Gbps of total bandwidth capacity, half of that is redundant.
Egress from the data center’s switch fabric to either the Internet (AS3356) or the MPLS IP VPN network (AS3549) is provided by two diverse provider edge (PE) routers—one pair for each network. These PE pairs connect to a corresponding pair of switches in the fabric. Traffic can be forwarded through both PEs and will switch over automatically upon failure of a PE, switch, or the link between them. This dual‑routing path is important to remember when using traceroutes or other reporting. PE1 may be active today but PE2 becomes the active path tomorrow.
Edge Bare Metal allows you the benefit of self‑service management of costs associated with your bare metal servers. You are automatically entered into a pay‑as‑you go model that allows the flexibility to provision or delete servers on‑demand, as your budget and business needs change. You can also enter into a term‑based billing contract with spend discounting. To learn more about term‑commit options, contact your Lumen account specialist.
Billing starts once a bare metal server has been successfully provisioned. You are billed based on the configuration selections outlined above for each bare metal server instance created. You will be invoiced monthly, in arrears, for your total Edge Services billable charges for active services during that billing period. No credit card is required.
The power states and applicable billing for an Edge Bare Metal server are as follows:
- Provision a bare metal server: starts billing.
- On/Running: continuously bills at the hourly rate based on the server configuration and applicable services tied to the server.
- Stop: Stops the server but doesn't stop billing.
- Delete a bare metal server: ends billing for that server.
Lumen charges for deleted servers based on the configuration, network charges, and other applicable services tied to the server during the up time of the server during a billing cycle.
For current features, pricing estimates, and supported currencies, visit the Edge Price Estimator.
Provisioning a bare metal server has multiple cost factors which are outlined below:
- Location: the hourly cost for a bare metal server can vary by location. Use the Edge Price Estimator to see the various hourly prices per location.
- Bare metal server configurations: the hourly cost for a bare metal server can vary by the configuration type. Use the Edge Price Estimator to see the various hourly price per configuration type.
- Bare metal operating system: the licensing cost for a bare metal server can vary by the operating system type and version. Use the Edge Price Estimator to see the various licensing cost per OS type. Currently, we offer only free, open‑source operating systems, but will be adding more operating systems in future releases.
- Network type: the cost for a bare metal server can vary by network type and usage. Currently, we only offer public internet, but will be adding more network types in future releases.
You can view your Edge Bare Metal invoices online. Control Center lists your previous 24 months of bills. (You can also access Control Center directly from the Edge Services portal under the Support tab.)
No, you connect to the Edge Bare Metal server with a user account that is specified and created when provisioning the machine. The root user account is not enabled for customers as a login, and it is necessary to elevate access on your server after logging in with your user account. The common approach is to use the sudo command.
Not all products and services are available in all regions and countries; please contact a representative near you for details.
