Dedicated Servers

Knowledge Base

Key Concepts

Bare Metal 3-AZ Region - Service presentation
Kimsufi and So you Start customers - Get to know the OVHcloud Control Panel
Shared responsibility for Dedicated Servers
Understanding the dedicated server boot process

Getting Started

How to get started with a dedicated server
How to get started with a Kimsufi, So You Start or Rise dedicated server
How to get started with SSH connections
How to create and use authentication keys for SSH connections to OVHcloud servers
How to store public authentication keys in the OVHcloud Control Panel
How to use the IPMI console with a dedicated server
How to obtain the carbon footprint of your OVHcloud services

Configuration

How to configure user accounts and root access on a server
How to change a Windows Server product key
How to reset the Windows Administrator password with the Windows customer rescue system
How to manage Intel SGX on a dedicated server
Hardware upgrade on a High Grade or Scale dedicated server
How to assign a tag to a Bare Metal server
How to install VMware ESXi 8 on a dedicated server
Managing and rebuilding software RAID on servers using legacy boot (BIOS) mode
Managing and rebuilding software RAID on servers using UEFI boot mode
Managing hardware RAID
Hot Swap - Hardware RAID
Hot Swap - Software RAID
Configuring MegaRAID for RAID Level 0
Configuring a software mirror (RAID) on Windows
OVHcloud API and Storage
Configuring the storage on a HGR-STOR-2 server
Creating a Windows partition on a server with hardware RAID
Advance Dedicated Servers - Upgrading your Samsung NVMe PM9A1 firmware
High Grade Dedicated Servers - Upgrading your SSD SAS Western Digital SS300 firmware
High Grade Dedicated Servers - Upgrading your SSD SAS Western Digital SS530 firmware
Dedicated Servers - Upgrading your SSD Solidigm D7-P5520 firmware
Dedicated Servers - Upgrading your Micron 7500 PRO firmware
How to verify the BMC firmware version on a dedicated server
Configuring OVHcloud Secondary DNS on a dedicated server
Installing an OVHcloud SSH key
Configuring OVHcloud Link Aggregation in the OVHcloud Control Panel
How to configure your NIC for OVHcloud Link Aggregation in Debian 9 to 11
How to configure Link Aggregation with LACP in Debian 12 or Ubuntu 24.04
How to Configure Your NIC for OVHcloud Link Aggregation in Windows Server 2019
How to Configure Your NIC for OVHcloud Link Aggregation in SLES 15
How to set up a web server (LAMP) on Debian or Ubuntu
Manage your server reboot with the OVHcloud Link Aggregation feature
Configuring IPv6 on dedicated servers
Configuring an IPv6 address on a virtual machine
Moving an Additional IP
Configuring Additional IPs in bridge mode on your virtual machines
What are the IP addresses of the OVHcloud monitoring?
Configuring IP aliasing
How to configure reverse DNS for your server (PTR record)
How to determine if your dedicated server supports virtual MAC addresses
Assigning a Virtual MAC to an Additional IP
Configuring the network on Windows Server with Hyper-V
Configuring the network on Proxmox VE on the High Grade, Scale & Advance ranges
Upgrade and downgrade Bandwidth via the OVHcloud API
Improving Network Resilience on Bare Metal servers
Configuring the vRack on your dedicated servers
Configuring Jumbo Frames in vRack
Configuring an IP block in a vRack
Configuring an IPv6 block in a vRack
Change the announcement of an IP block in vRack
Creating multiple vLANs in a vRack
Setting up a Virtual Machine using Additional IPs and Hyper-V over a vRack
Configuring the vRack between the Public Cloud and a Dedicated Server
Upgrade and downgrade private bandwidth (vRack) via the OVHcloud API
OVHcloud API and OS Installation
Bring Your Own Image (BYOI) / Bring Your Own Linux (BYOLinux), a comparison sheet
Bring Your Own Image (BYOI)
Bring Your Own Linux (BYOLinux)
Configure a custom iPXE script to boot your server from the OVHcloud API

Migration

Migrate data from one dedicated server to another
Copying data from one dedicated server to another using rsync

Tutorials

How to use PuTTY for SSH connections and authentication
Tutorial - Configuring pfSense network bridge
How to set up a web server (LAMP) on Debian or Ubuntu
Activating Windows Machines using Hyper-V on an OVHcloud licensed Windows Server
Installing CUDA on a dedicated GPU server
Backing up data and databases on a Storage Server
How to use SFTP to transfer files
How to create a Palworld compatible server
How to install a web development environment on a VPS or a dedicated server
How to deploy and verify an OpenNebula Hosted Cloud on Bare Metal servers
How to install CloudPanel on a VPS or a Dedicated Server
How to install WordPress with Docker on a VPS or a dedicated server
How to install WordPress with WP-CLI on a VPS or a dedicated server
How to install ISPmanager on a VPS or Dedicated Server
How to prevent your emails from being marked as spam

Security

How to secure a dedicated server
Securing a server with a Memcached service
How to mitigate the Zenbleed vulnerability
How to mitigate the Downfall vulnerability
How to mitigate the Inception vulnerability
Find your patch for Meltdown and Spectre
Information about Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability fixes
AMD SME/SEV on Ubuntu 20
Dedicated Server Security Specifications
Manage and secure your ESXi dedicated server from the outset
ESXi Dedicated Servers - FAQ
Preparing a Bare Metal Server backup with Veeam Enterprise
Backing up a Bare Metal Linux Server with Veeam Enterprise
Backing Up a Bare Metal Windows Server Using Veeam Agent for Windows
Restoring a Bare Metal Server with Veeam Enterprise
How to use the backup storage on a dedicated server
OVHcloud AntiSpam - Best Practices and Unblocking an IP
Configuring the firewall on Linux with iptables
Configuring the firewall on Windows
Enabling and configuring the Edge Network Firewall
How to protect a Game server with the application firewall
Monitoring DDoS attacks with the Network Security Dashboard
How to configure the Anti-DDos Infrastructure for Solana

Troubleshooting

How to recover server access if your user password is lost
How to activate and use rescue mode
How to activate and use Windows rescue mode
How to replace an SSH key pair
Replacing a defective disk
How to perform server hardware diagnostics in rescue mode
Finding the serial number of a hard disk
Finalise a maintenance intervention on your dedicated server
Uninstalling the RTM v2 monitoring system
How to retrieve databases in rescue mode
Network - Fixing slow downloads problems inside containers and VMs running on Proxmox VE servers with Broadcom BCM57502 NICs