How to Provision Vultr Bare Metal Instances

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.

Click Create Instance +.

Under Plan, select Bare Metal.

Select a processor category from the Plan Selection sidebar, such as CPU (AMD or Intel) or GPU (AMD or NVIDIA), or select All to view every plan.

Select a plan from the list based on your CPU, memory, storage, bandwidth, and price requirements.

Under Location, select a Vultr location for the instance.

Click Configure.

Under Image Selection and Configuration, select an image source:

• Operating System: Select an OS family, such as Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, or Rocky Linux, then select an Image Version. Click Show More to view additional families.
• Marketplace App: Select a prebuilt application that installs its recommended operating system alongside it.
• iPXE Startup Script: Boot the instance from a remote disk image or script.
• Backup: Select a backup from your Vultr account to restore onto the instance.
• Snapshot: Select a snapshot from your Vultr account.

Under Server Settings, optionally select an IP Address, SSH Keys, and a Startup Script.

Under Disk Configuration, select how to configure the instance disks:

• RAID 1: Configures the disks in a software RAID 1 array for data redundancy.
• No RAID (Disks formatted/mounted.): Formats and mounts each disk individually.
• No RAID (Extra disks unformatted.): Leaves the additional disks unformatted for manual configuration.

Enter a value in the Server 1 Hostname field and the Server 1 Label field to identify the instance.

Configure Additional Features for the instance:

• Instance Connectivity: Select how the instance connects to the internet.
  • Instance(s) with Public IP: Assigns public IP addresses directly to the instance. Under Instance Address, Public IPv4 is enabled by default. Select Public IPv6 to enable IPv6 addressing. After selecting IPv6, you can optionally deselect Public IPv4 to create an IPv6-only instance.
  • Private Instance(s) behind NAT Gateway: Routes internet traffic through a NAT gateway in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network. Select an existing VPC network with a NAT gateway or click Add VPC Network to create a new one.
• VPC Network: Click Select Options to connect the instance to an existing VPC network in the current location, or create a new one.
• Limited User Login: Select this option to create a linuxuser non-root user with sudo privileges as the default user account instead of root.

Review the instance details in the Summary panel and click Deploy to provision the instance.