Recently we have paid more attention to the coverage of new services such as cloud servers and cloud storage, but it did not stop the work in other directions, in this article we will go about our dedicated servers. In the near future we will provide functionality provides automatic installation of operating systems on dedicated servers, which is now undergoing the final stage of testing. In the meantime, we would like to describe the current features that can also add the convenience of working with a dedicated server.
Download Management Dedicated Server
After selecting a dedicated server from the list will take you to a page containing basic information about the server, as well as elements of the power management and load. Now, in addition to the server tab familiar power management buttons (physical on / off and hard reset the server) and access to the KVM console, a new menu is available "download management server," which allows you to manage the server boots directly from the control panel.
To select the menu are available as standard options for server boot (boot from the first or second hard disk), and special tools for installation, diagnostics and recovery, "Booting Boot menu" and "Booting into Rescue (Recovery Console)." After selecting a menu item, you must save the change and restart the server. Let us consider each item.
Boot Menu
Boot menu allows installers to run the most common server operating systems or additional software for the diagnosis and recovery that are constantly kept up to date. Click "Download Boot Menu", save and reboot the server to work with the Boot menu, use the KVM console server.
In most cases, installing the operating system on a dedicated server to the client before the delivery is done by our engineers, but sometimes customers have a need to install yourself. Consider installing OS using « Boot Menu".