Manage Baremetal Servers

Baremetal servers are physical servers that reside directly on the hardware without the virtualization layer. Baremetal servers are hosted on dedicated baremetal compute resources, deployed for a single user. Utilization of baremetal servers allows locating customer's servers on a single piece of hardware. Use of baremetal servers in the cloud makes hardware resource utilization more efficient. In this document, you can find information on how to manage baremetal servers. 

View List of Baremetal Servers 

To view the list of all baremetal servers deployed in the cloud:

  1. Go to your Control Panel > Cloud > Baremetal servers menu to see an overview of all baremetal servers in the cloud with their details:
    • OS
    • label
    • IP addresses
  2. Click the Actions button next to the server for the quick access to the list of available actions (the list of actions displayed depends on the server status).
  3. To view the particular baremetal server details, click the label of a required server.
  4. To add a new baremetal server, press "+" or click the Add New Baremetal Server button. 


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View Baremetal Server Details


To view details of a specific baremetal server:

  1. Click the label of the server you're interested in.
  2. On the screen that appears, you'll see the baremetal server properties and activity log:
    • FQDN (fully qualified domain name)
    • Baremetal Compute resource group the server belongs to.
    • Login credentials
    • Owner
    • Estimated Price per hour. This sum does not take into consideration the free limits for resources set in the bucket. Therefore, the final price for the server might differ from the sum indicated here.
    • IP Addresses
    • Admin Notes
    • User Notes
    • Activity log

  3. To remove all pending tasks from the log, click the Cancel all pending tasks for this Baremetal Server button at the bottom of the screen.


Baremetal Server Recovery Mode


To reboot a baremetal server in the recovery mode:

  1. Go to your Control Panel's Baremetal Servers menu.
  2. On the screen that appears, click the label of the baremetal server you want to reboot in the recovery mode.
  3. On the baremetal server screen, click the Tools button, then choose Enable Recovery Mode.

To disable recovery mode for a baremetal server:

  1. Go to your Control Panel's Baremetal Servers menu.
  2. On the screen that appears, click the label of the required baremetal server.
  3. On the baremetal server screen, click the Tools button, then choose Disable Recovery Mode.

Enable Recovery Mode

To enable recovery mode for baremetal servers, perform the following steps:

  1. Download the following files: 
    http://templates.repo.onapp.com/Linux/recovery-baremetal.kernel
    http://templates.repo.onapp.com/Linux/recovery-baremetal.initrd
  2. Place the files into the /tftpboot/images/ramdisk-recovery/ directory.

  3. Create template file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/template-baremetal-recovery with following contents:

    default baremetal-recovery
label baremetal-recovery
kernel images/ramdisk-recovery/recovery-baremetal.kernel
append initrd=images/ramdisk-recovery/recovery-baremetal.initrd root=live:/recovery-centos-3.2.iso rootfstype=auto ro liveimg rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 

  4. Restart the OnApp services:

    service onapp restart 
service httpd restart

Once done, recovery mode option will appear in the bare metal server's Tools menu.

Delete Baremetal Server


To remove a baremetal server from the cloud:

  1. Go to your Control Panel > Cloud > Baremetal Servers menu.
  2. On the screen that appears, you'll see the list of all baremetal servers in the cloud. Click the label of the server you want to delete.
  3. On the baremetal server screen, click the Tools button, then choose Delete Baremetal Server.

After a user has been deleted a baremetal server, OnApp administrator receives an email notification. After that, administrator must reclaim a baremetal Compute resource by manually rebooting it, to make it available for new baremetal server creation.

Recommended Network Configuration


Recommended network configuration for baremetal server cloud is the following: 

Recommended network configuration for mixed smart/baremetal server cloud is the following: