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On Demand

Equinix Metal™ offers servers on an on-demand basis. You can provision and deprovision on demand servers to suit your workload.

Availability and Cost

Equinix Metal has many types of servers eligible for On Demand deployment -- availability permitting. Since we do not virtualize our infrastructure and provide 100% dedicated machines, we do not guarantee that all server types will always be available at every location. Available inventory is not guaranteed for on-demand instance provisioning requests. If you need more reliable provisioning options, please look into requesting Reserved Servers.

On demand servers are charged a fixed-rate per hour. Billing begins as soon as the server is successfully provisioned, and ends when the server has been deleted from the user's project. Rates are available in the Equinix Metal console.

Deploying On Demand Servers

To deploy an new server, select one of your Projects, and under Bare Metal Servers > Deploy choose Deploy on Demand

Deploying Servers in the Console

Select your Metro and your server plan.

Choosing a Metro and Plan in the console

Next, choose an Operating System.

Operating Systems options in the console

If you want to deploy more than 1 server, you can adjust the number under Select Number of Servers. You can name your servers by changing the pre-filled hostnames. NOTE: You cannot use underscores in your hostname.

Under Optional Settings you can configure IP addresses, user data, or SSH key access for your servers.

Additional provisioning options in the console

Your choices will be summarized in the Summary table. Once you are happy with the summary, you can deploy your server by clicking Deploy Now.

Deleting an On Demand Server

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Deleting a server is a permanent action. Once you delete a server, it becomes unrecoverable.

Server instances deployed on demand are never deleted by Equinix Metal without explicit permission from the instance owner, except in the event of account termination or indefinite restriction due to failure to comply with our Terms of Service.

Method 1

To delete an On Demand server, select your Project. Under Bare Metal Servers choose Manage.

Select the server you want to delete. Click Delete from the Actions menu.

Deleting a Server from the Manage list in the console

Method 2

After selecting a server, delete it from the Actions menu.

Deleting a server from the Server Action Menu in the console

After clicking Delete from either of the above methods, fill out the confirmation dialog and click Delete Instance to delete the server.

Method 3

Delete the server from the server's Settings tab. Type "delete" into the field and click Delete Server.

Deleting a server from the its Settings tab in the console