Turn your bare-metal into an on-demand cloud
Flex VMs turns bare-metal nodes into full-fledged on-demand VMs that AI teams on Shadeform can rent, with services like Spot built on top.
What partners get
Fast and lightweight enrollment
Begin enrolling your nodes right in your terminal with a simple curl command. All we need is a dedicated IPv4 address and SSH access. No BMC or network access required.
Spot flexibility built-in
With Flex VMs, you get additional monetization services like Spot built-in. List any idle nodes on Spot, then deploy them for your own use or pull them entirely at any time.
Monitor utilization and revenue at a glance
View detailed breakdowns of utilization and revenue on each of your nodes. We also monitor host health, quarantine anything unhealthy and rebuild environments ourselves.
Start enrolling from your terminal
Run one command on the machine you want to enroll. It checks the host, asks a few questions, and hands you a link to finish in the dashboard.
Run this on your node
Nothing is installed and nothing is registered until the checks pass and you confirm.
Questions about Flex VMs?
Flex VMs are Shadeform's bare metal to cloud offering. We take operators' bare metal nodes and virtualize them as single tenant VMs with full GPU passthrough. Once virtualized, these VMs are able to be rented by Shadeform users on-demand or as a spot offering.
SSH access and a dedicated IPv4 address. We don't need BMC or network access.
You can self enroll your nodes by running the curl command above on the machine you want to list. You'll be prompted with a few questions about your business, we'll assess your node remotely, and then hand you a link to view your enrollment status.
Once your machines have been approved, enrollment takes less than 30 minutes. Please allow up to 2 days for our team to review and approve your nodes.
If you list your nodes as Spot, you can reclaim them instantly at any time. Either deploy them for yourself from our provider dashboard, or unenroll your nodes entirely.
