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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:
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. |
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.
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