How to Provision Vultr VX1™ Cloud Compute Instances

Navigate to Compute and click Instances.

Click Create Instance +.

Under Plan, select Dedicated CPU.

Select VX1 from the Plan Selection sidebar.

Select a plan from the list:

• General Purpose (vx1-g-*): Provides a balanced combination of vCPUs and memory, suitable for most workloads, including web servers, application servers, development environments, container workloads, and moderate database deployments.
• Memory Optimized (vx1-m-*): Provides a higher memory-to-vCPU ratio, suitable for workloads that require large in-memory datasets, such as caching engines, analytics workloads, JVM applications, high-memory web services, and large databases.

Plans that report Block Storage in the Storage column boot from a bootable Block Storage volume. Plans ending with a -###s suffix, such as vx1-g-4c-16g-240s, include local NVMe storage.

Under Location, select a Vultr location for the instance.

Click Configure.

On plans with local NVMe storage, select a Boot Configuration:

• Block Storage: Boots from a bootable Block Storage volume and uses the local storage as scratch space.
• Local Storage: Boots from the local NVMe storage. You can attach Block Storage volumes later as needed.

If the instance boots from Block Storage, select the target volume in the Bootable Block Storage section, or create a new one:

• Click Create Block Storage +.
• Enter a name in the Name field and set the volume size in the Size (GB) field.
• Under Image Selection and Configuration, select an operating system and an Image Version.
• Click Create Block Storage + to create the volume. The new volume is selected automatically.

If the instance boots from Block Storage, select an Attachment Method:

• Attach: Uses the selected bootable Block Storage volume.
• Clone: Clones the selected bootable Block Storage volume, leaving the source volume unattached.

The Summary shows the selected volume in the Boot Storage field.

If the instance boots from local storage, select an image source under Image Selection and Configuration:

• Operating System: Select an operating system 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.
• 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, a Startup Script, and a Firewall Group. Instances that boot from Block Storage do not show the Startup Script option.

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 Network Address Translation (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.
• DDoS Protection: Mitigates Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against the instance to help keep the instance available.
• Limited User Login: Creates a linuxuser non-root user with sudo privileges as the default user account instead of root.
• Cloud-Init User Data: Enables Cloud-Init user data to initialize and customize the instance at boot.

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