FlexVM

Create your own Private Clouds, based on scalable FlexMetal bare metal servers.

FlexVM (Flex Virtual Metal) extends the existing FlexMetal bare metal provisioning platform with a managed virtual machine layer. It enables customers to provision GPU- accelerated and generalpurpose VMs on dedicated hardware through the same API, Terraform provider, and consumption model they already use for FlexMetal bare metal.

The service targets workloads that require near-bare-metal performance with the operational flexibility of virtual machines: game build pipelines, CI/CD, rendering, AI inference, and any workload where GPU/NVMe passthrough and per-tenant isolation are non-negotiable.

FlexVM is not a shared multi-tenant cloud. Each customer's VMs run on hardware exclusively allocated to them. The virtualization layer exists solely to subdivide dedicated machines into deterministic, isolated units with direct hardware access.

Core Concepts

Concept	Description
Tenant	i3D customer identification (also known as K#)
Cloud	Your isolated environment. Contains nodes, VMs, and capacity. A tenant has one or more Clouds.
Node	A physical compute host inside your cloud. A cloud has one or more Nodes.
Image	An OS template used to create VMs (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04, Windows Server).
Instance Type	A predefined hardware profile (CPU, RAM, disk) for VMs.
VM	A virtual machine instance running in your cloud.
Command	An action you can execute on a VM (e.g., start, stop, reboot).