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Edge Bare Metal support: Release notes

We're continually making improvements to Lumen® Edge Bare Metal services. Below, are our most recent enhancements—with links, where applicable, to articles on how to use the new or updated features.

October 2024

Bare metal servers

  • You are now able to provision a server with Ubuntu 24.04 installed during provisioning.

  • You can now provision a new server configuration at many Edge Bare Metal locations with these specifications:
    • Supermicro SYS-111C-NR
    • CPU: Intel 6438Y+, 32C/64T, 2GHz, 16GT/s, 60Mb cache, 205W, single socket (Sapphire Rapids)
    • Memory: 512 Gb (8 x 64 GB DDR5-4800 2RX4 (16Gb) RDIMM)
    • Storage:
      • OS: 2 x RAID1 M.2 NVMe PCIe4 - 960Gb raw
      • Data: 6 x MVMe PCIe4 - 22.8Tb raw
    • Single Dual-Port NIC: 2 x 100 Gbps (Mellanoz MCX623106AC-CDAT PCIe Gen4 x 16, 2 x QSFP56)

    • Provisioning a bare metal server
    • Edge Bare Metal Server locations

September 2024

Bare metal servers

  • You can no longer provision a server with Lumen-provided RHEL 7.9 and 8.5 licenses. They are not supported. They are not supported.

  • You can now bring your own license for RHEL 9.3. You can provision the server with RHEL installed and have 30 days to add your license key.

  • You can now disable Hyper-Threading during server provisioning.
     

July 2024

Bare metal servers

  • You can provision a server with Rocky Linux 9 or Debian 12 installed.

  • You can no longer provision a server with Rocky Linux 7 or Debian 10 installed. They are not supported.

Bare metal server networks

  • You can now provision a private network connected to a new or existing VRF. This enables private connectivity of your Edge Bare Metal server to other servers within a site or site-to-site. If you are an IP VPN On-Demand customer, you can connect to another cloud provider.

January 2024

Bare metal server networks

November 2023

Bare metal servers

Bare metal server networks

Bare metal server and network activity

  • We've redesigned Edge Service Manager to make it easier to view network and server provisioning successes and failures, view log data for servers and networks, and download a report of the activity to your computer.

Been awhile since you've signed in? Here are the additional changes we've made to Edge Bare Metal recently.

September 2023

Bare metal servers

  • You can now provision a new server configuration at many Edge Bare Metal locations with the following specifications:

    • 32 cores, 256 GB RAM, 2400 GB SSD
    • Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6226R Processor 2-.9GHz, 16C/32T, DDR4-2933, 150W CPU
    • Memory – 256GB Total - 32GB DDR4 2933 VLP RDIM MTA18ADF4G72PZ-2G9 SR
    • x4 16Gb
      • 1x 480GB NVME SSD - 480GB 1DWPD M.2 80mm NVME SSD
      • 2x 1TB NVME SSD - 1TB 1DWPD 2.5" U.2 15mm PCIe NVME SSD
      • 2x10Gbps connected

  • You can now bring your own license for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.9 & 8.5). You can provision the server with RHEL installed with 30 days to add your license key.

  • You are now able to provision servers in many new locations.

Bare metal server networks

June 2023

Bare metal servers

  • You are no longer able to provision a server with Ubuntu 18.04.
  • You are now able to provision a server with Ubuntu 22.04 installed.

November 2022

Bare metal servers

  • You can provision a bare metal server in Lumen® Edge Service Manager with Rocky Linux version 8.6 as an option. You can choose from the CentOS 7.9, Rocky Linux 8.6, and Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 options.
  • You can build Edge Bare Metal servers faster. We reduced the average build time to a third of the original build time. This updated build process increases build stability as the network continues to grow.

June 2022

Bare metal server networks

  • You can now provision a network in the Catalog section of the Edge Service Manager. This combines additional functionality with a more modern look when provisioning bare metal networks.
  • You can now add multiple bare metal servers to a single network. This new functionality requires that you provision a network before you provision a bare metal server. 
  • You can now purchase larger IP blocks for bare metal networks. You can add a /29 block for no additional cost. Other IP blocks are available on a per IP block usage fee. Pricing is available within the Edge Service Manager.

Bare metal servers

  • You can now provision a bare metal server in the Catalog section of the Edge Service Manager. This combines additional functionality with a more modern look when provisioning bare metal servers.