Scale Dedicated servers — high-core-count Bare Metal for compute-intensive workloads

Scale servers are designed for compute-intensive and large-scale workloads: large databases, in-memory analytics, virtualized environments, distributed systems, scientific computing, financial analysis, and the training and serving of AI and machine learning models. Scale is sized for organizations whose workloads need sustained performance under heavy load and significant compute density — particularly workloads that benefit from high core counts, large memory footprints, or high-throughput networking across nodes.

Scale sits between Advance and High Grade in the OVHcloud dedicated server lineup. Compared to Advance, Scale offers significantly more compute (up to 384 cores on dual-socket platforms vs. Advance's 6 to 24 cores), more RAM (128 GB to 3 TB DDR5 ECC vs. Advance's 32 GB to 576 GB), 4 × 25 Gbps networking with 50 Gbps private vRack bandwidth, and a 99.99% SLA (vs. Advance's 99.95%). Both Scale and High Grade include redundant power supplies, industrial water cooling, 4 × 25 Gbps networking, and a 99.99% SLA. The High Grade differentiators above Scale are hot-swap drives, four redundant network interfaces, and private bandwidth scaling to 100 Gbps with OVHcloud Link Aggregation — features designed for high-availability workloads where component-level resilience matters.

Scale servers ship with AMD EPYC 9004 or 9005 series or Intel Xeon 6 processors, with single-socket and dual-socket configurations supporting 16 to 384 cores depending on the SKU. RAM ranges from 128 GB to 3 TB of DDR5 ECC. Storage uses PCIe Gen 4 or Gen 5 NVMe SSDs, configurable from 2 to 8 disks per server. Network interfaces are 4 × 25 Gbps, with public bandwidth from 1 to 25 Gbps (5 Gbps default in NA/EU/CA, 1 Gbps in APAC) and 50 Gbps private vRack bandwidth (extendable to 100 Gbps with OVHcloud Link Aggregation). All Scale servers include redundant power supplies, industrial water cooling, a 99.99% SLA, and OVHcloud Anti-DDoS Protection at no additional cost.

vRack is OVHcloud's private network that connects servers across datacenters and regions over an isolated layer-2 network at no additional bandwidth cost. Scale servers include 50 Gbps private vRack bandwidth by default — twice the bandwidth of Advance — and support up to 100 Gbps with OVHcloud Link Aggregation (OLA). vRack is included at no cost on all Scale servers and supports up to 4,000 private VLANs for multi-tenant isolation.

Scale servers run on OVHcloud infrastructure that holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certifications, along with SSAE 18 Type 2 SOC 1, SOC 2 + NIST, and SOC 3 attestations, PCI DSS Level 1 certification, and support for HIPAA-compliant workloads in US data centers.

Scale servers are deployable across the US and 14 additional regions on four continents, including Hillsboro, Oregon and Vint Hill, Virginia in the US; Beauharnois and Toronto in Canada; Gravelines, Roubaix, and Strasbourg in France; Frankfurt; Warsaw; London; and APAC datacenters (Mumbai, Singapore, and Sydney). Customers can pin data to a specific region for sovereignty or latency requirements.

Every Scale server includes a 99.99% SLA, OVHcloud Anti-DDoS Protection, redundant power supplies, industrial water cooling, IPMI/KVM console access via the OVHcloud Control Panel or API, a public IPv4 address and an IPv6 address range, vRack private networking up to 50 Gbps, and zero egress fees in North American and European datacenters. Asia-Pacific datacenters have a monthly traffic cap with the option to add bandwidth. Up to 256 additional IPv4 addresses can be added per server.

At OVHcloud, unlimited and unmetered traffic is enabled by default, with the exception of solutions and services hosted in our Asia-Pacific data centers.

Companies seeking performance, enhanced security, and a high degree of customization should consider choosing a dedicated server. High-performance dedicated servers feature powerful cores, making them ideal for resource-intensive tasks. To help ensure the success of your project, you can customize your dedicated server by selecting the desired CPUs, memory, bandwidth (private and public), storage, and CPU frequency.