How to Reinstall a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

1 min readUpdated 26 May 2026

Learn how to reinstall the operating system on your Vultr Bare Metal instance while preserving your IP address and hostname.

Reinstalling a Vultr Bare Metal instance wipes the server file system, resets all configurations and reinstalls the operating system. Any data available on the instance's file system is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered unless backed up.

Follow this guide to reinstall a Vultr Bare Metal instance using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and click Compute.
Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
Click Server Reinstall on the top-right navigation menu to reinstall the server's file system.
Check the confirmation prompt and click Reinstall Server to apply changes.

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