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Bare Metal

Updated on 15 September, 2025

Command suite for managing Vultr Bare Metal servers, enabling creation, configuration, and administration of dedicated physical hardware resources.

The vultr-cli bare-metal command manages Vultr Bare Metal servers, allowing you to create, list, delete, and modify physical dedicated servers through the command line interface.

Usage

console 
$ vultr-cli bare-metal

Examples

console 
# Full example
$ vultr-cli bare-metal

Available Commands

  • app - Commands to modify applications on a bare metal server
  • bandwidth - Get a bare metal server's bandwidth usage
  • create - Create a bare metal server
  • delete - Delete a bare metal server
  • get - Get a bare metal server by ID
  • halt - Halt a bare metal server.
  • image - Commands to manage the image on a bare metal server
  • ipv4 - List the IPv4 information of a bare metal server
  • ipv6 - Get the IPv6 information of a bare metal server
  • list - List all bare metal servers.
  • os - Commands to manage the operating system on a bare metal server
  • reboot - Reboot a bare metal server.
  • reinstall - Reinstall the operating system on a bare metal server.
  • start - Start a bare metal server.
  • tags - Add or modify tags on the bare metal server
  • user-data - Commands for bare metal server user data
  • vnc - Get a bare metal server's VNC url
  • vpc2 - Commands to manage VPC2s on bare metal servers
Bandwidth
Displays bandwidth usage statistics for Bare Metal instances to help monitor data transfer consumption within your Vultr account.
Create
Provisions a new bare metal server on Vultrs platform with customizable specifications for hardware, operating system, and datacenter location.
Delete
Permanently removes a specified bare metal server instance from your Vultr account, freeing resources and stopping billing.
Get
Retrieves detailed information about a specific bare metal server instance using its unique identifier.
Halt
Forcefully powers off a Bare Metal server without performing a graceful shutdown, which may risk data loss.
IPv4
Manages IPv4 address operations for Bare Metal servers, including listing, adding, and removing IP addresses on your Vultr infrastructure.
IPv6
Manage IPv6 address configurations for Vultr bare metal servers, including listing, adding, and removing IPv6 addresses.
List
Displays all bare metal server instances in your Vultr account with their IDs, specifications, and status information.
Reboot
Restarts a specified Bare Metal server in your Vultr account using its ID.
Reinstall
Reinstalls the operating system on a bare metal server, resetting it to its initial state.
Start
Powers on a previously halted Vultr Bare Metal server instance, making it available for use again.
Tags
Manage organizational tags for Vultr bare metal servers to categorize and group your infrastructure resources.
VNC
Retrieves VNC URL information for bare metal servers to enable secure remote console access.
App
Manages marketplace applications for Vultr Bare Metal instances, enabling deployment and administration of software on physical servers.

Change

Modifies application settings on an existing Vultr bare metal server without requiring full redeployment.

List

Displays all available applications that can be installed on Vultr bare metal instances during deployment.

Image
Manages operating system images for Bare Metal servers, allowing you to view and update available OS options.

Change

Updates the operating system image on a specified bare metal server instance in your Vultr account.

OS
Lists all operating systems available for Bare Metal instances on Vultr to help with deployment selection.

Change

Change the operating system on a Vultr Bare Metal instance while preserving primary disk data.

List

Lists all available operating systems that can be installed on Vultr bare metal servers to help users select an OS during deployment.

User Data
Retrieves or sets user-supplied initialization data (cloud-init/scripts) for bare metal server instances.

Get

Retrieves the cloud-init user data script for a specified bare metal server instance in your Vultr account.

Set

Updates the cloud-init initialization script for a specified bare metal server instance.

VPC2
Manages VPC 2.0 network connections for Bare Metal instances, enabling attachment, detachment, and listing of VPC associations.

Attach

Attaches a bare metal server to a VPC 2.0 network to enable private network connectivity between infrastructure resources.

Detach

Removes a bare metal server from a VPC 2.0 network, disconnecting it from the private network environment.

List

Lists all VPC 2.0 networks attached to a specified bare metal server with their connection details and configuration.