How to Restart a Vultr Bare Metal Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Apply updates that need a reboot by restarting a Vultr Bare Metal instance. Its data and file system stay unchanged.

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 applies updates or configuration changes that require a reboot.

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

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
Click the Server Restart icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
Click Restart Server in the confirmation prompt to restart the instance. This performs a hard restart.

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