Creating and working with bare metal servers (ibmcloud sl hardware)
IBM Cloud® Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. Bare metal servers provide the raw horsepower you demand for your processor-intensive and disk I/O-intensive workloads. These servers come with the most complete package of standard features and services.
Use the following commands from the IBM Cloud® Command Line Interface to manage IBM Cloud classic infrastructure Bare-metal hardware servers.
ibmcloud sl hardware cancel
Cancel a hardware server:
ibmcloud sl hardware cancel IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -i, --immediate
- Cancels the server immediately (instead of on the billing anniversary).
- -r, --reason
- An optional cancellation reason. See
ibmcloud sl hardware cancel-reasonsfor a list of available options. - -c, --comment
- An optional comment to add to the cancellation ticket.
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware cancel-reasons
Display a list of cancellation reasons:
ibmcloud sl hardware cancel-reasons
ibmcloud sl hardware create
Order/create a hardware server:
ibmcloud sl hardware create [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -H, --hostname
- Required. Host portion of the FQDN.
- -D, --domain
- Required. Domain portion of the FQDN.
- -s, --size
- Required. Hardware size.
- -o, --os
- Required. OS installation code.
- -d, --datacenter
- Required. Datacenter shortname.
- -p, --port-speed
- Required. Port speed.
- -b, --billing
- Billing rate, either hourly or monthly, default is hourly if not specified.
- -i, --post-install
- Post-install script to download.
- -k, --key
- SSH keys to add to the root user, multiple occurrence allowed.
- -n, --no-public
- Private network only.
- -e, --extra
- Extra options, multiple occurrence allowed.
- -t, --test
- Do not actually create the virtual server.
- -m, --template
- A template file that defaults the command line options.
- -x, --export
- Exports options to a template file.
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware create-options
View the server order options for a chassis:
ibmcloud sl hardware create-options
ibmcloud sl hardware credentials
List hardware server credentials:
ibmcloud sl hardware credentials IDENTIFIER
ibmcloud sl hardware detail
Get details for a hardware server:
ibmcloud sl hardware detail IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -p, --passwords
- Show passwords (check over your shoulder!).
- -c, --price
- Show associated prices.
ibmcloud sl hardware edit
Edit hardware server details:
ibmcloud sl hardware edit IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -H, --hostname
- Host portion of the FQDN.
- -D, --domain
- Domain portion of the FQDN.
- -g, --tag
- Tags to set or empty string to remove all.
- -F, --userfile
- Read user data from a file.
- -u, --userdata
- User defined metadata string.
- -p, --public-speed
- Public port speed, options are: 0,10,100,1000,10000.
- -v, --private-speed
- Private port speed, options are: 0,10,100,1000,10000.
ibmcloud sl hardware list
List hardware servers:
ibmcloud sl hardware list [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -c, --cpu
- Filter by number of CPU cores.
- -D, --domain
- Filter by domain.
- -H, --hostname
- Filter by host name.
- -d, --datacenter
- Filter by datacenter.
- -m, --memory
- Filter by memory in GB.
- -n, --network
- Filter by network port speed in Mbps.
- -g, --tag
- Filter by tags. You can specify more than one.
- -p, --public-ip
- Filter by public IP address.
- -v, --private-ip
- Filter by private IP address.
- -o, --order
- Filter by the ID of the order that purchased the hardware server.
- --owner
- Filter by ID of the owner.
- --sortby
- Column to sort by, default:hostname, option:id,guid,hostname,domain,public_ip,private_ip,cpu,memory,os,datacenter,status,ipmi_ip,created,created_by.
- --column
- Column to display, options are: id,hostname,domain,public_ip,private_ip,datacenter,status,guid,cpu,memory,os,ipmi_ip,created,created_by,tags. This option can be specified multiple times.
ibmcloud sl hardware power-cycle
Power cycle a server:
ibmcloud sl hardware power-cycle IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware power-off
Power off an active server:
ibmcloud sl hardware power-off IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware power-on
Power on a server:
ibmcloud sl hardware power-on IDENTIFIER
ibmcloud sl hardware reboot
Reboot an active server:
ibmcloud sl hardware reboot IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- --hard
- Perform a hard reboot.
- --soft
- Perform a soft reboot.
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware reload
Reload operating system on a server:
ibmcloud sl hardware reload IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -i, --postinstall
- Post-install script to download, only HTTPS executes, HTTP leaves file in /root.
- -k, --key
- IDs of SSH key to add to the root user. You can specify more than one.
- -b, --upgrade-bios
- Upgrade BIOS.
- -w, --upgrade-firmware
- Upgrade all hard disk drive firmware.
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware rescue
Reboot server into a rescue image:
ibmcloud sl hardware rescue IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.
ibmcloud sl hardware toggle-ipmi
Toggle the IPMI interface on and off. This command is asynchronous.
ibmcloud sl hardware toggle-ipmi IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- --enable
- Enable the IPMI interface.
- --disable
- Disable the IPMI interface.
- -q, --quiet
- Suppress verbose output.
ibmcloud sl hardware update-firmware
Update server firmware:
ibmcloud sl hardware update-firmware IDENTIFIER [OPTIONS]
Command options:
- -f, --force
- Force operation without confirmation.