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How to Restart a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

Updated on November 27, 2024

Restarting an instance performs a hard reboot and stops all running processes on your server before starting them again. Restarting does not alter the instance data or file system and enables the application of updates or configuration changes that require a reboot.

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

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.

    Navigate to Products in the Vultr Customer Portal

  2. Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.

    Open the Instance management panel

  3. Click Server Restart on the top-right navigation menu to restart your server.

    Restart Server

  4. Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to apply changes.

    Restart the Server

  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 POST request to the Reboot Bare Metal endpoint to restart the instance.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals/{baremetal-id}/reboot" \
  -X POST \
  -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. Restart the instance.

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