<story><title>The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment</title><url>https://hachyderm.io/@oxidecomputer/110635621269494973</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Congrats to the team, but after hearing about Oxide for literal years since the beginning of the company and repeatedly reading different iterations of their landing page, I still don&amp;#x27;t know what their product actually &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s a hypervisor host? Maybe? So I can host VMs on it? And a network switch? So I can....switch stuff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>electroly</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s AWS Outposts Rack without the AWS connection. That is, you get a turnkey rack with the servers, networking, hypervisor, and support software preconfigured. You plug it into power and network and it&amp;#x27;s ready to run your VMs.&lt;p&gt;Outposts, too, started with a full-rack configuration only, but they eventually introduced an individual server configuration as well. It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see if Oxide eventually decides to serve the smaller market that doesn&amp;#x27;t have the scale for whole-rack-at-a-time.</text></comment>
<story><title>The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment</title><url>https://hachyderm.io/@oxidecomputer/110635621269494973</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anaisbetts</author><text>Congrats to the team, but after hearing about Oxide for literal years since the beginning of the company and repeatedly reading different iterations of their landing page, I still don&amp;#x27;t know what their product actually &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s a hypervisor host? Maybe? So I can host VMs on it? And a network switch? So I can....switch stuff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>steveklabnik</author><text>I wrote this a while back, does that help? Happy to elaborate. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30678324&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30678324&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>