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Provisioning a bare metal server

Use the Edge Services portal to provision Lumen® Edge Bare Metal servers (referred to as an instance in the portal) to run your dedicated services without interruption on reliable, physical hardware.

Before you provision a bare metal server, you must provision a network for the location you plan to provision the bare metal server. When you finish configuring a bare metal server, it can take up to 15 mintues to provision. After a bare metal server is provisioned, you can view the details and edit the information of the bare metal server. You can stop, start, or restart a bare metal server. If you no longer need the bare metal server, you can delete it.

Important: Before you provision a bare metal server, add your instance credentials (Linux or Windows) to your user profile to avoid being locked out. If you provision a bare metal server without adding credentials, delete the server, add your credentials, and then provision a replacement bare metal server. 

To provision a bare metal server:

  1. Click Provisioning, then click Catalog.

    The Edge Services portal shows the available items in the provisioning catalog.
Edge Service Manager provisioning Catalog
  1. On the Order Bare Metal tile, click ORDER.

    The Edge Services portal shows the Order Bare Metal screen.
Edge Service Manager bare metal order screen
  1. On the Order Bare Metal screen, complete the following fields:
Field Description
Group Select Lumen Edge Computing Solutions.
Name Type a name for the server.
Operating System Select an operating system for the server. The choice of operating system affects the price of the bare metal server. The price appears on this screen and updates according to your selections.
Version Select a version of the operating system for the server.
Location Select a physical location for the bare metal server. Bare metal servers must be in the same location as the assigned network.
Server Size Select a required server size. The configuration appears. The choice of server size affects the price of the bare metal server. To estimate the cost of server configuration, use the Edge Price Estimator.
Network Select a network for the server.
A network must be fully provisioned before it appears and can be selected.

Edge Services portal lists provisioned networks. If you just provisioned a network, the process can take up to five minutes to complete. The network appears for selection after the provisioning completes.
  1. If you do not have a provisioned network for the bare metal server location, the No network options available at this location message appears. You will not be able to complete the order for the bare metal server. You will need to provision a network, wait for the provisioning to complete, then start a new order to provision a bare metal server. To provision a network, click RESERVE A NETWORK. The network provisioning process can take up to five minutes to complete. After the network provisions, you can provision a bare metal server and the network will be available for selection.  
Edge Service Manager bare metal order reserve network view
  1. Click ORDER NOW.

    The Edge Services portal starts to provision the bare metal server. This process can take up to 15 minutes to complete. Click Operations, then click Dashboard to track the progress of the provisioning and view the estimated time to completion. After the bare metal server is provisioned, you receive an email. Click Operations, then click Dashbord to check that the instance status is green and running.

Lumen Edge Bare Metal supports Terraform®. Terraform is an open-source infrastructure tool that uses declarative configuration files to define API calls using a write, plan, and apply workflow process. For more information, refer to the following documentation:

If the standard storage for a bare metal configuration is not enough for your use case, you can add additional storage with Lumen® Network Storage.

Lumen Network Storage enables you to add and manage Edge storage with the Edge Services portal and Network Storage portal.

Learn more about Lumen Network Storage.

Already have Network Storage? Learn more about how to use Network Storage.