Overview of Dedicated Servers – Support Guides

Learn about the Dedicated Server layout via the OVHcloud Control Panel.

OVHcloud Dedicated Servers offer our customers an environment with resources entirely dedicated to their use. These servers are ideal for hosting websites, email, and a variety of other applications.

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Instructions

Navigating to your Dedicated Server

From the OVHcloud Control Panel, select your server via the Bare Metal Cloud and Dedicated servers menus.

General information

When you first select a Dedicated Server, the first tab to which you will be taken is the General information tab. Here you can view all kinds of information about your Dedicated Server's hardware, service status information, network, and more.

The General information box is where you will find the server's hostname and product type. Additionally, you will be able to install an OS and change the boot mode of your server. To learn more about what you can do from this box, please check out the following articles:

The Hardware box will give you your server's hardware information. We use an HGR-HCI-1 server in our example. Hardware will vary depending on your server and any upgrades you selected.

The Service status box is where you will find the status of your server, whether monitoring is enabled or disabled, which services are monitored, and helpful links to view the status of the OVHcloud network at large. The more options ... button to the right of Status allows you to reboot your server or cancel the service.

For more information about OVHcloud Monitoring, please check out our Overview of OVHcloud Monitoring article.

If you scroll down on the page, you will be brought to the Network box.

Here you will find IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to the server. You can also navigate to the "IP" section of the OVHcloud Manager, and set up reverse DNS. For more information about reverse DNS, please check out our How to Configure Reverse DNS article.

To find the IP section: In the OVHcloud Control Panel, select Network in the left-hand navigation menu. Then click IP. For information about Additional IPs, see this guide.

The Subscription box is where you will find the renewal date so you will always know when to expect your bill. You can also manage your commitments here. Additionally, it will tell you the date you created the service. For more information about billing, please check out our Overview of Billing with OVHcloud article.

Network interfaces

From this tab, you can manage OVHcloud Link Aggregation. To learn more about OVHcloud Link Aggregation, click this link.

Secondary DNS

A Dedicated Server with OVHcloud allows you to leverage our infrastructure to host secondary DNS.

For more information about secondary DNS, please check out our How to Configure Secondary DNS article.

Interventions

Here you view a history of the work (i.e., an intervention) that a data center technician has performed on your server. The type of work and when it was carried out will be listed.

Now, let's take a look at the next tab.

IPMI/KVM

If your server offers IPMI capabilities, you will see options to download a Java applet and/or HTML applet, which allows you to access your server via a remote KVM session. If IPMI is not offered with your dedicated server, this screen will be blank.

For more information about IPMI, please check out our Getting Started with IPMI article.

Tasks

Finally, we arrive at the Tasks tab.

This tab will track various tasks performed on your server such as hard reboots, changing the boot mode, etc. It is a high-level log to help you administer your server.

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Dedicated Servers support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.