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Use Colt® Edge Service Manager to provision Colt® Edge Bare Metal servers to run your dedicated services without interruption on reliable, physical hardware.
As you configure a bare metal server, you are prompted to provision a network for the same location or select an existing network already configured with either IPv4, IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, or private network using VRF (virtual routing and forwarding) that segments your network paths. When you finish configuring a bare metal server, it can take up to 30 mintues to provision and be available. After bare metal server provisioning is complete, you can view the server details, edit the server details, and stop, start, or restart the bare metal server. You can add additional networks to a provisioned bare metal server. If you no longer need the bare metal server, you can delete it.
Important: You must provision a bare metal server in the same location (e.g., London, England) as the provisioned network.
To provision a bare metal server:
Note: Additional IP addresses are unassigned and can be assigned as needed on your servers. Colt does not track additional IP addresses assigned to servers after initial server provisioning. You are responsible for managing any IPs assigned to servers outside of the Edge Service Manager.
Colt has limited insight into hardware-level failures due to the low level of hardware owned by customers. If a failure is detected, a specialist will contact you to coordinate maintenance.
If your bare metal server experiences one of the following failed components, contact Edge Customer Care and provide the server name and your tenant (account) name:
If your bare metal server experiences a full server failure (dead server), meaning the server is unable to ping, unable to perform power operations, fails on boot, or you have problems logging in to your bare metal server, contact Edge Customer Care. Provide the server name and your tenant (account) name to the specialist.
In the case of an unrecoverable hardware failure, we recommend deleting the bare metal server and provisioning a new bare metal server to replace it.
Important: It is your responsibility to maintain any data recovery or restoration process that may be necessary in the case of a critical hardware failure. There is no default configuration to protect against this.
Colt is responsible for all hardware replacement for bare metal servers. Physical hardware support for servers is available only during core business hours (Monday through Friday, 9:00 am-5:00 pm) in the bare metal server location time zone. There is no SLA for hardware replacement; however, most hardware replacements are completed within four business days.
Some hardware failure scenarios require coordination with other customers in the shared environment and can take up to 12 days to coordinate maintenance. It is your responsibility to prepare for hardware failures and to architect redundancy of critical services running on bare metal servers.
If the standard storage for a bare metal configuration is not enough for your use case, you can add additional storage with Colt® Network Storage.
Colt Network Storage enables you to add and manage Edge storage with the Edge Service Manager all within Control Center.
Already have Network Storage? Learn more about managing Network Storage
Colt 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:
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