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How to Destroy a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

Updated on 11 September, 2025

Learn how to permanently delete a Vultr Bare Metal Instance and all associated data from your account.

Destroying an instance removes the public IP address and deletes the server from your Vultr account. Destroying an instance cannot be reversed and any instance data cannot be recovered unless a backup or snapshot is available in your Vultr account.

Follow this guide to destroy a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
  3. Click Destroy Server on the top-right navigation menu to destroy the Bare Metal server instance.
  4. Check the confirmation prompt and click Destroy Server to apply changes.

  1. Send a GET request to the List Bare Metal Instances endpoint and note the target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals" \
  -X GET \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Bare Metal endpoint to destroy the instance.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals/{baremetal-id}" \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all Bare Metal instances available in your Vultr account and note the target instance's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli bare-metal list

  2. Destroy the instance.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli bare-metal delete <instance_id>

  1. Open your Terraform configuration and locate the Bare Metal server resource.

  2. Remove the resource block or destroy it by target.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_bare_metal_server" "bm1" {
    label    = "bm1"
    region   = "ewr"
    plan     = "vbm-4c-32gb"
    os_id    = 2284
    hostname = "bm1"
}

# To delete, either remove this block from configuration
# or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_bare_metal_server.bm1

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.

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