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Edge Bare Metal support: Release notes

We're continually making improvements to Lumen^®Edge Bare Metal services. Below, are our most recent enhancements—with links, where applicable, to articles on how to use the new or updated features.

October 2024

Bare metal servers

You are now able to provision a server with Ubuntu 24.04 installed during provisioning.
You can now provision a new server configuration at many Edge Bare Metal locations with these specifications:
- Supermicro SYS-111C-NR
- CPU: Intel 6438Y+, 32C/64T, 2GHz, 16GT/s, 60Mb cache, 205W, single socket (Sapphire Rapids)
- Memory: 512 Gb (8 x 64 GB DDR5-4800 2RX4 (16Gb) RDIMM)
- Storage:
  - OS: 2 x RAID1 M.2 NVMe PCIe4 - 960Gb raw
  - Data: 6 x MVMe PCIe4 - 22.8Tb raw
- Single Dual-Port NIC: 2 x 100 Gbps (Mellanoz MCX623106AC-CDAT PCIe Gen4 x 16, 2 x QSFP56)
- Provisioning a bare metal server
- Edge Bare Metal Server locations

September 2024

Bare metal servers

You can no longer provision a server with Lumen-provided RHEL 7.9 and 8.5 licenses. They are not supported. They are not supported.
You can now bring your own license for RHEL 9.3. You can provision the server with RHEL installed and have 30 days to add your license key.
You can now disable Hyper-Threading during server provisioning.
- Provisioning a bare metal server

July 2024

Bare metal servers

You can provision a server with Rocky Linux 9 or Debian 12 installed.
You can no longer provision a server with Rocky Linux 7 or Debian 10 installed. They are not supported.
- Provisioning a bare metal server

Bare metal server networks

You can now provision a private network connected to a new or existing VRF. This enables private connectivity of your Edge Bare Metal server to other servers within a site or site-to-site. If you are an IP VPN On-Demand customer, you can connect to another cloud provider.
- Provisioning a bare metal server network
- IP VPN On-Demand

January 2024

Bare metal server networks

You can now provision a network with an IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack subnet.
- Provisioning a bare metal server network

November 2023

Bare metal servers

We've redesigned Edge Service Manager to make it easier to provision and manage Edge Bare Metal servers.

Bare metal server networks

We've redesigned Edge Service Manager to make it easier to provision and manage Edge Bare Metal networks.

You are now able to attach multiple networks to a single server. This enables you to have multiple IPs assigned to your server.
- Adding a network to an existing bare metal server

Bare metal server and network activity

We've redesigned Edge Service Manager to make it easier to view network and server provisioning successes and failures, view log data for servers and networks, and download a report of the activity to your computer.
- Viewing activities
- Downloading an activity report

Been awhile since you've signed in? Here are the additional changes we've made to Edge Bare Metal recently.

September 2023

Bare metal servers

You can now provision a new server configuration at many Edge Bare Metal locations with the following specifications:
- 32 cores, 256 GB RAM, 2400 GB SSD
- Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6226R Processor 2-.9GHz, 16C/32T, DDR4-2933, 150W CPU
- Memory – 256GB Total - 32GB DDR4 2933 VLP RDIM MTA18ADF4G72PZ-2G9 SR
- x4 16Gb
  - 1x 480GB NVME SSD - 480GB 1DWPD M.2 80mm NVME SSD
  - 2x 1TB NVME SSD - 1TB 1DWPD 2.5" U.2 15mm PCIe NVME SSD
  - 2x10Gbps connected
You can now bring your own license for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.9 & 8.5). You can provision the server with RHEL installed with 30 days to add your license key.
You are now able to provision servers in many new locations.
- Learn more about Edge Bare Metal availability

Bare metal server networks

You are now able to provision an IP VPN connection via API and then attach an Edge Bare Metal server to that connection.
- Learn more about Edge Bare Metal APIs

June 2023

Bare metal servers

You are no longer able to provision a server with Ubuntu 18.04.
You are now able to provision a server with Ubuntu 22.04 installed.

November 2022

Bare metal servers

You can provision a bare metal server in Lumen^® Edge Service Manager with Rocky Linux version 8.6 as an option. You can choose from the CentOS 7.9, Rocky Linux 8.6, and Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 options.
You can build Edge Bare Metal servers faster. We reduced the average build time to a third of the original build time. This updated build process increases build stability as the network continues to grow.

June 2022

Bare metal server networks

You can now provision a network in the Catalog section of the Edge Service Manager. This combines additional functionality with a more modern look when provisioning bare metal networks.
You can now add multiple bare metal servers to a single network. This new functionality requires that you provision a network before you provision a bare metal server.
You can now purchase larger IP blocks for bare metal networks. You can add a /29 block for no additional cost. Other IP blocks are available on a per IP block usage fee. Pricing is available within the Edge Service Manager.

Bare metal servers

You can now provision a bare metal server in the Catalog section of the Edge Service Manager. This combines additional functionality with a more modern look when provisioning bare metal servers.