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How to Restart a Vultr Cloud GPU Instance

Updated on 11 September, 2025

A guide explaining how to properly restart your Vultr Cloud GPU instance when needed.

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 Cloud GPU instance using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
  2. Click your target Cloud GPU instance to open its management page.
  3. Click Server Restart on the top-right navigation menu to restart your server.
  4. Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to apply changes.

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

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

  2. Send a POST request to the Reboot Instances endpoint to restart the instance.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/instances/reboot" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
    "instance_ids" : [
      "instance_id"
    ]
  }'

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

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. Restart the target instance.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance restart <instance_id>

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