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Use the Edge Services portal to provision Lumen® Edge Bare Metal servers (referred to as an instance in the portal). It takes approximately 30 minutes for a server to be provisioned. Once provisioned, you can view details for bare metal servers, edit information for a bare metal server, or delete bare metal servers you no longer need.
Important: Before you provision a server, you must add your credentials for the instance type (Linux or Windows) in your user profile. At deployment the applicable credentials for the provisioning user are added to the server by default. If you haven't added your credentials for the instance type to your profile, you will be locked out of accessing the server. To add your credentials, follow the instructions below. If you accidentally provision a server before adding your credentials, delete the server, set your credentials, and deploy a new server.
The user needs to add credentials for the instance type (Linux or Windows) in their profile.
At deployment the applicable credentials for the provisioning user are added to the server by default.
If you have yet to add credentials for the instance type (Linux or Windows) to your profile, please do that step now by following the steps below.
Important: Failure to add credentials for the instance type in the user profile will cause you to be locked out of accessing the server.
In the event that you accidentally provision a server prior to adding your credentials, please delete the server, set your credentials, and deploy a new server.
Operating system password requirements
Below are the password requirements, by operating system, as defined by each operating system vendor.
Password requirements for CentOS
Learn more about CentOS password requirements
Password requirements for Linux/Ubuntu
By default, Ubuntu requires a minimum password length of six characters, as well as some basic entropy checks. These values are controlled in the file /etc/pam.d/common-password and are outlined in the Linux/Ubuntu password guide.
To add your Linux and Windows credentials to your profile:
To provision a bare metal server:
Note: For operating systems (OSs) that have a licensing fee the cost will be displayed in the portal prior to purchase. Currently, only free, open-source operating systems are available. Additional OSs will be made available in future releases and supporting documentation will be provided regarding how licensing costs are billed.
The below section outlines the purpose of each field in the image above.
Important: Currently, there are three server configurations available. Additional configurations will be available in future releases. View server configuration capacity per site.
For estimated costing of server configuration, use the Edge Price Estimator.
Under the plan field, the server configuration selection and the cost associated will populate. (e.g., Cores: 32; Memory: 768 GB; Price: $3,708.00 / Month)
Important: During provisioning only the primary disk on a bare metal server is preconfigured to give the user more control over the volume configuration. All additional disks are left in a raw state for configuration as you see fit.
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