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Oxide seems to be a lot more efficient than a rack full of 1U servers with each having 2 PSUs + 2 ToR switches + 1 management switch somewhere for all the OOBMs. All those little fans and power conversions eat a lot of power, the fans and the PSUs all cost something too. Also, have fun managing all of that in a secure manner or debugging anything at all. Once you add the VMware licensing you might end up with more or less the same cost up front and quite likely higher overall cost. And I am not even beginning to talk about racking/ stacking of the whole rack. I haven't seen much support even when Dell/EMC owned VMware and together produced the VXRail lineup and the company I used to work for was presented as the reference project in Saxony, Germany at that time. All of the boxes would add up to about 2 standard racks but it was representative of the other bigish customers in that area and time.

I imagine, some of the customers will order 1-2 racks half full and over a few years possibly add a few sleds, these will probably demand great GUI/ manual experience and possibly competitive Oracle/ SAP/ MSSQL benchmarks and I can imagine Veeam integreation. Other customers such as the DoE or some big enterprise customers will order whole rows of racks and demand perfect automation options. That is just a guess.