New Bare Metal Instance

In the navigation pane, choose Inventory > Bare Metal Management.
Select the target bare metal chassis.
On the bare metal chassis details page, click Actions > New Bare Metal Instance.
In the New Bare Metal Instance dialog, set the following parameters to complete the basic information:
- Name: Set a name for the bare metal instance.
- Description: Optional. Enter a description.
- Bare Metal Chassis: Displays the bare metal chassis.
- Platform: Only Linux is supported.
- Image: Select an image for installing the OS.
  ISO format only.
  
  You need to upload the image to the standalone image storage in advance.
  
  Supports both custom platform OS and mainstream Linux distributions, including RHEL/CentOS series, Debian/Ubuntu series, and SUSE/openSUSE series.
- Bare Metal Template: Select a bare metal template to quickly generate pre-configured files for unattended batch OS installation. For more information, see Bare Metal Template.
- Auto Overwrite Data: Choose whether to enable automatic data overwrite.
  When enabled, the original data will be automatically overwritten when bare metal instances are deployed.
  
  Otherwise, the installation of operating systems may pause. You need to access the console to manually configure disks.
Click Next.
Set the following parameters to complete system and network configurations:

You can configure system and network information for bare metal instances either individually or in batches.
- Operating System: Displays the selected OS.
- Username: Set a username. For batch configuration, default username is root.
- Password: Set a password.
- Network Device: Configure a business network for the bare metal instance.
  - Device Type: Choose NIC or NIC Bond.
  - NIC Bond Name: Set a name for the NIC bond, when selecting NIC bond as the device type.
  - NIC Bond Type: Select bond mode when selecting NIC bond as the device type. Options include Mode 1 (Active-Backup) and Mode 4 (LACP).
  - NIC: Select an NIC.
  - Distributed Port Group: Select a distributed port group.
Review the configuration and click OK.