FlexusX Instances

Overview of FlexusX Instances

Flexus X Instance (FlexusX) is a next-generation flexible compute service designed for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developers. It provides application-defined cloud servers with intelligent awareness of service workloads. It is a good choice for medium and light workloads, such as e-commerce livestreaming, enterprise website setup, development and testing environments, game servers, and audio and video services.

Hyper-threading is enabled for FlexusX instances by default. Each vCPU is a thread of a CPU core.

Available now: X1

**Table 1** General computing instance features
Series	Compute	Disk Type	Network
X1	vCPU to memory ratio: user-defined Number of vCPUs: 1 to 16 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Basic/Turbo frequency: 2.8 GHz/3.5 GHz	High I/O General Purpose SSD Ultra-high I/O Extreme SSD General Purpose SSD V2	An instance with higher specifications has better network performance. Maximum packets per second (PPS): 1,000,000 Maximum intranet bandwidth: 12 Gbit/s Maximum number of network connections: 1,000,000

General Computing X1

Overview

General computing X1 is the flavor name of FlexusX instances in ECS.

Scenarios

Websites and web applications demanding high levels of PPS
Lightweight databases and cache servers
Light- and medium-load enterprise applications

Specifications

FlexusX supports a wide range of custom specifications for you to choose from. The following table lists the specifications supported by X1 instances.

**Table 2** X1 instance specifications
vCPU	Max./Assured Bandwidth (Gbit/s)	Max. PPS (10,000)	Network Connections (10,000)	Max. NIC Queues	Max. NICs	Max. Supplementary NICs	Virtualization
1	1/0.1	15	50	2	2	4	KVM
2	2/0.2	30	50	2	2	8	KVM
3	2/0.2	30	50	2	2	8	KVM
4	3/0.4	50	50	2	2	16	KVM
5	3/0.4	50	50	2	2	16	KVM
6	4/0.6	60	50	2	2	24	KVM
7	4/0.6	60	50	2	2	24	KVM
8	6/0.8	80	100	2	2	32	KVM
9	6/0.8	80	100	2	2	32	KVM
12	8/1.2	90	100	4	3	48	KVM
16	12/1.6	100	100	4	3	64	KVM