# Fabric by IZT Cloud

> Fabric is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform from IZT Cloud that ships as one signed firmware image per server: a type-1 hypervisor, distributed block storage, per-tenant software-defined networking, high availability with verified fencing, a tenant self-service portal and signed A/B updates — on commodity x86 hardware, priced per node by node class, never per core, and fully operable with no internet connection.

Release status: Fabric is in closed beta today. General availability is planned for Q1 2027.

Fabric is licensed per physical node by node class, never per core: Edge (up to 8 cores) $500/node/yr; Small (9 – 16 cores) $1,000/node/yr; Medium (17 – 32 cores) $1,800/node/yr; Large (33 – 64 cores) $3,200/node/yr; X-Large (65+ cores) $5,000/node/yr. Community edition: free, unlimited nodes, every feature. Support: Standard included, Premium 24×7 +30%, Mission Critical +75%. MSP: monthly per node from $50. Runs fully air-gapped: no phone-home, no licence server, no kill-switch.

Product vocabulary: "Fabric Compute" is the hypervisor layer, "Fabric Storage" is the distributed block storage, a "fabric" is one site (one cluster, one control-plane appliance), nodes are grouped into racks, tenants get isolated virtual networks.

## Pages

- [Fabric — HCI as firmware, not a license you rent by the core](https://fabric.izt.cloud/): Fabric is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform delivered as one signed firmware image: compute, distributed storage, networking, HA and a tenant portal on commodity servers, priced per node, never per core.
- [Platform — One signed image, the whole stack](https://fabric.izt.cloud/platform): Every layer of the Fabric HCI platform — Fabric Compute, Fabric Storage, per-tenant SDN, HA with verified fencing, signed A/B updates and air-gapped operation — in one firmware image.
- [How Fabric scales — from one edge node to a 500-node datacenter](https://fabric.izt.cloud/scale): See a Fabric cluster grow from one node to five hundred and fail over from edge to datacenter, live. Same firmware image at every size, no re-architecture.
- [Use cases — Edge, sovereign, AI/GPU, MSP and VMware migration](https://fabric.izt.cloud/use-cases): Where Fabric fits: retail and branch edge clusters, air-gapped industrial and public-sector sites, GPU workloads, service providers, and organisations leaving VMware after Broadcom.
- [Pricing — Per node, per year, every feature included](https://fabric.izt.cloud/pricing): Fabric HCI pricing: five node classes from $500 to $5,000 per node per year by physical core band, every feature in every class, a free unlimited Community edition, and no per-core meter.
- [Compare Fabric with VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, Scale Computing and more](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare): Honest, side-by-side comparisons of Fabric with every major HCI and virtualization platform: licensing model, architecture, storage, networking, HA, updates and sovereignty.
- [About — Infrastructure should belong to the people who run it](https://fabric.izt.cloud/about): IZT Cloud builds Fabric on one belief: the people who run infrastructure should own it. No per-core meter, no phone-home, no kill-switch.

## Comparisons

- [Fabric vs VMware](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-vmware): Fabric vs VMware vSphere / VCF compared: per-node vs per-core licensing, one signed image vs vCenter + vLCM + NSX + Aria, built-in storage and SDN, HA with fencing, air-gapped operation and a 32-core price example.
- [Fabric vs Proxmox](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-proxmox): Fabric vs Proxmox VE compared honestly: per-socket subscriptions vs per-node classes, a DIY Debian stack vs one signed firmware image, storage policies, HA fencing, multitenancy, updates and support.
- [Fabric vs Nutanix](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-nutanix): Fabric vs Nutanix NCI/AHV compared: per-core Starter/Pro/Ultimate tiers vs per-node classes with no feature matrix, controller-VM architecture vs a firmware image, storage, Flow networking, DR, hardware lists and a 32-core example.
- [Fabric vs Scale Computing](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-scale-computing): Fabric vs Scale Computing SC//Platform compared: per-core Standard/Professional tiers vs per-node classes, fixed two-copy storage vs storage policies, no tenancy or SDN vs built-in, cluster size, hardware and a 32-core price example.
- [Fabric vs VergeIO](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-vergeio): Fabric vs VergeOS compared: both license per server, but at very different prices. Architecture, storage, nested virtual datacenters vs tenants, DR, updates, air-gap and hardware.
- [Fabric vs Harvester](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-harvester): Fabric vs Harvester (SUSE Virtualization) compared: a signed firmware appliance for VM-first teams vs an open-source HCI built on Kubernetes. Storage, networking, HA, upgrades, tenancy, air-gap and support.
- [Fabric vs Azure Local](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-azure-local): Fabric vs Microsoft Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI) and Hyper-V compared: per-node classes vs per-core monthly billing tied to an Azure subscription, validated-hardware requirements, Storage Spaces Direct, HA, updates and disconnected operation.
- [Fabric vs XCP-ng](https://fabric.izt.cloud/compare/fabric-vs-xcp-ng): Fabric vs XCP-ng / Xen Orchestra compared: per-host support vs per-node classes, hypervisor-plus-orchestrator vs one signed image, shared storage options, HA, backup, pool size limits and air-gapped operation.

## Optional

- [Full product reference (llms-full.txt)](https://fabric.izt.cloud/llms-full.txt): every feature with shipping/roadmap status, full pricing rules, all comparison tables and FAQs in one Markdown document.
- [Sitemap](https://fabric.izt.cloud/sitemap.xml): all indexable URLs.