Reinstall a VM

Wipe the system disk and reinstall the OS from a portal image.

CPU, RAM, OS disk size, network interfaces, and their MAC addresses stay unchanged.

Before you begin

• VM must be stopped.
• If the system disk has data you need to keep, make sure backups exist in VM → Backups.

Steps

1. Stop the VM.
2. Open VM → Reinstall.
3. Choose an OS image, hostname, and username, and set a password. We do not store passwords — you cannot view it in the portal later.
4. Add SSH keys.
5. Run reinstall and optionally start the VM after completion.

Watch out

• Reinstall deletes all data on the system disk.
• Reinstall removes the VM snapshot if one exists.

Next steps

• VM backups and restore
• Snapshots