How to Install EdgeVX On Vultr Bare Metal Instance
In today’s fast-paced networking landscape, organizations increasingly adopt virtualized solutions to streamline operations, enhance security, and improve scalability. EdgeVX is a cutting-edge virtualized network platform designed to power edge computing and SD-WAN solutions with improved performance and security.
This guide will walk you through the steps required to install EdgeVX on a Vultr Bare Metal instance, a robust infrastructure solution offering high-performance hardware coupled with a KVM virtualization layer. Leveraging Vultr’s global datacenter footprint, deploying EdgeVX on bare metal ensures low latency, high throughput, and full control over your infrastructure—critical for demanding workloads and secure network environments.
Whether you’re setting up a single node or scaling across multiple hubs, this step-by-step guide will help you deploy EdgeVX efficiently on Vultr’s platform. We’ll also highlight key configurations, best practices, and troubleshooting tips to ensure a seamless installation process.
Deployment Steps
Create login credentials at https://vultr.com.
Add payment details on the Payment Details Page
To create a new Bare Metal Server, click Products, Compute, then Deply New Server under Deploy at the top right corner of the user interface.
Under Choose Type, select Bare Metal, and then choose your preferred location.
Choose a Location that is close to your end users. This will help reduce the latency between their remote locations and the Kognitve Hub.
Under Choose Image, select Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as the image to install on the bare metal server.
Under Choose Plan, select the plan that best suits the number of Kognitive Hubs you would like to deploy. Some plans may not be available in the location you chose in the previous step.
Plan Name | Supported Number of Hubs |
|---|---|
E3-1270 | 1 |
E-2286G | 1 |
E-2288G | 7 |
E-2388G | 7 |
EPC-7443P | 15 |
EPYC-9254 | 23 |
Under Server Settings, select an SSH Key. If this is your first time, you must create an SSH Key by clicking the plus icon next to the dropdown box.
Give the server a Hostname and Server Label. Then click Deploy Now to deploy the server.
The server will take several minutes to deploy. Once the server installation is complete, you will receive an email with the server details.
Connect to the server using the IP address you received via email and use the SSH Key you chose during the installation step. The default username is root.
Follow the EdgeVX: Quick Start Guide to complete the installation of the Kognitive Hub on Vultr.