Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target Bare Metal instance to open its management page.
3. Click Server Reinstall on the top-right navigation menu to reinstall the server’s file system.
4. Check the confirmation prompt and click Reinstall Server to apply changes.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Bare Metal Instances endpoint and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals" \
     -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a POST request to the Reinstall Bare Metal endpoint to reinstall the instance with a new hostname.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/bare-metals/{baremetal-id}/reinstall" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
     --data '{
       "hostname" : "<new-baremetal-hostname>"
     }'

Vultr CLI

1. List all Bare Metal instances available in your Vultr account and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli bare-metal list
   

2. Reinstall the instance with a new hostname.
   console

   $ vultr-cli bare-metal reinstall --host <new_instance_hostname> <instance_id>

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration for the existing Bare Metal instance.
2. Trigger a reinstall by replacing the instance during apply.
   console

   $ terraform apply -replace=vultr_bare_metal_server.bm1
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.