Collection: Private Node Kit

Own Your AI Infrastructure. Control Your AI Future.

Enterprise AI deployments have reached an inflection point. The early adopters who built their AI capabilities entirely on public cloud are now confronting the economics of scale: at sustained utilization, cloud compute costs more than owned infrastructure. At the data volumes that enterprise AI requires, cloud egress fees become a significant line item. And for industries with data sovereignty requirements — financial services, healthcare, defense, legal — the question of where your data lives and who has access to it is not optional.

The Private Node Kit is DVUN's answer for enterprise teams making the strategic decision to bring AI infrastructure in-house. It's a complete, pre-validated private compute node: GPU servers, high-speed networking, shared storage, rack enclosure, and intelligent power distribution — everything required to stand up a production-grade private AI compute environment, sourced from a single supplier, validated to work together, and delivered with the documentation and support to deploy it without a specialized infrastructure team.

This is not a starter kit. The Private Node Kit is designed for enterprise-scale AI workloads: the kind of training and inference infrastructure that a serious AI team needs to run production models, fine-tune foundation models on proprietary data, and serve AI applications to internal or external users at scale. It's built to enterprise reliability standards, with redundant power, enterprise-grade storage, and the networking bandwidth that production AI demands.

Enterprise-Grade Capabilities

• Redundant Power Architecture: Dual-corded servers with redundant PSUs, connected to dual intelligent PDUs on separate circuits — eliminating single points of failure in the power infrastructure.
• Out-of-Band Management: IPMI/BMC remote management on all servers, with a dedicated management network for secure, out-of-band access to all infrastructure components.
• Data Sovereignty: All compute, storage, and networking is physically located in your facility, under your control. No data leaves your environment without your explicit action.
• Enterprise Storage Reliability: Shared storage with RAID or erasure coding data protection, ensuring that a drive failure doesn't result in data loss or training job interruption.
• Scalable Architecture: The Private Node Kit's networking and storage are designed to support additional compute nodes as your AI workloads grow, without requiring a forklift upgrade of the core infrastructure.
• Compliance-Ready Documentation: Full hardware documentation, supply chain provenance, and security specifications to support compliance and audit requirements in regulated industries.

Total Cost of Ownership: The Enterprise Case

For an enterprise running AI workloads at sustained utilization, the TCO comparison between cloud and owned infrastructure typically reaches break-even at 18–24 months, with owned infrastructure delivering 40–60% lower cost over a 3–5 year horizon. The Private Node Kit is designed to maximize this TCO advantage: high-efficiency hardware that minimizes power consumption, enterprise-grade reliability that minimizes downtime and replacement costs, and a scalable architecture that extends the useful life of the initial investment. See our Inference Rack Pack for production inference-optimized configurations, and our Ready Systems overview for the full range of pre-configured options.

What's Included

• 2–6x GPU servers with redundant PSU configurations
• 1x Enterprise AI storage node with data protection and 100GbE connectivity
• 1x High-radix 100GbE cluster switch with management features
• 1x 1GbE management switch for out-of-band management network
• 2x Intelligent PDUs with per-outlet monitoring (dual-corded configuration)
• 1x 42U or 48U rack enclosure with rails, cable management, and blanking panels
• All interconnect cables pre-selected, labeled, and documented
• Full deployment documentation package and DVUN advisory support

Private Infrastructure. Enterprise Confidence.

The decision to bring AI infrastructure in-house is a strategic one. The Private Node Kit makes it an executable one — with the hardware, documentation, and support to deploy a production-grade private AI compute environment on a timeline that enterprise projects can actually meet. Request a quote for Private Node Kit configurations, or contact our enterprise team to discuss customization for your specific workload, compliance, and facility requirements.