How to Reinstall a Vultr Cloud GPU Instance

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Reset a Vultr Cloud GPU instance to a clean state by wiping its file system and reinstalling the OS; back up first.

Reinstalling a Vultr Cloud GPU instance wipes the file system, resets all configurations, and reinstalls the operating system. Any data available on the instance's file system is permanently deleted. You cannot recover it unless you back it up first.

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

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.
Click your target Cloud GPU instance to open its management page.
Click the Server Reinstall icon in the top-right corner of the management page.
Click Reinstall Server in the confirmation prompt to reinstall the instance.

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