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What is a Datacenter & why add one

A Datacenter is the highest-level container Virtualizor uses to organise physical hardware. Everything else — floors, racks, and bare-metal servers — lives inside a datacenter. Before you can add any rack or register any bare-metal server, at least one datacenter must exist.

Adding a datacenter buys you four things:

  • Geographic context - a country flag and address appear next to every server in the panel.
  • Region-based plan filtering - the Server Region you attach to a datacenter decides which bare-metal plans are offered to end users for servers in this DC.
  • Contact details - ops/NOC contact information surfaces at the top of the list so first-responders can reach the facility quickly.
  • A parent for floors - without a datacenter you cannot map floors, racks or rack positions for any server.

Where to find it

Sidebar path in the Admin Panel:

Bare Metal › List Datacenters

From there you can use either the top-right Add Datacenter button or the sidebar entry Bare Metal › Add Datacenter.

The List Datacenters page

The list view is your overview. Each row is one datacenter, with quick links to edit/delete and live counts of how many child floors / racks / bare-metals belong to it.

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Figure 1 - List Datacenters page with key controls highlighted.
  1. Add Datacenter button — primary entry point for creating a new facility. The identical large button at the bottom of the list does the same thing.
  2. Location column — renders the country flag and city/short label. Hover the country to see the full street address as a tooltip.
  3. Floors / Racks / Baremetals counters — live counts of child records. A value of 0 means nothing has been attached yet; deleting a DC with non-zero counters triggers a cascade warning (see §6).
  4. Action icons — per-row pencil opens Edit, trash opens Delete (with cascade confirmation if needed).
  5. Bulk action bar — tick the row checkboxes on the left, choose an action from "With Selected", click Go. The only bulk action currently exposed is Delete.

Column reference

Column Description
ID Internal primary key. Used in deep links (?act=edit_datacenter&dcid=...).
Location Flag + short city label. Full address shown on hover.
Name The display name you typed in Data Center Name.
Contact Email and phone shown one above the other.
Floors How many floors exist in this DC.
Racks Sum across all floors.
Baremetals Physical servers homed in this DC.
Action Per-row edit / delete buttons.

Add Datacenter - the form, field by field

Where: sidebar → Bare Metal › Add Datacenter  or  the Add Datacenter button on the list page.

Why: creating a datacenter is the first step before any floor, rack or bare-metal server can exist in Virtualizor. You will come back to this form whenever you onboard a new physical facility.

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Figure 2 - Add Datacenter form with the most important fields highlighted.
  1. Datacenter Country - searchable Select2 dropdown rendering a flag next to each country. Drives the flag shown on every list/manage page.
  2. Server Region - ties this datacenter to a Virtualizor server group (region). End users only see bare-metal plans whose pricing matches this region.
  3. Data Center Name - internal display name shown in the Name column.
  4. Location Name - short city / facility label shown in the Location column.
  5. Remote Agent - optional IPMI / out-of-band agent endpoint (used when the facility hosts a dedicated remote IPMI gateway).
  6. Save Location - commits the record. On success you are redirected back to the list page.

Complete field inventory

UI Label Required Type Purpose tips
1 Datacenter Country REQUIRED Select (with flag) Used for flag rendering across all Bare Metal pages.
2 Server Region OPTIONAL Select Defaults to Default Region (sgid=0). Switch this to expose this DC to a specific region's bare-metal plans. Choose All Regions if the plans for this DC should be discoverable everywhere.
3 Data Center Name REQUIRED Text Display name, e.g. Mumbai DC, Equinix Singapore.
4 Location Name REQUIRED Text City / short label, e.g. Mumbai, India.
5 Location Address REQUIRED Text Full street address. Appears as a tooltip in the list.
6 Remote Agent OPTIONAL on Add Text IPMI / out-of-band agent endpoint URL or hostname. Heads-up: Edit treats this as required — see §5.
7 Location Email REQUIRED Text Primary NOC / ops email.
8 Location Phone OPTIONAL on Add Text (digits, +, -) Country code prefix allowed, e.g. +91-7977983548. Edit form treats it as required — see §5.
9 Location Description OPTIONAL Textarea Free-form notes (cage / cabinet labels, access procedure, escalation tree, etc.).

How to add a Datacenter — step by step

  • Open Bare Metal › Add Datacenter.
  • Pick the Datacenter Country — type the country name to filter the list.
  • Choose a Server Region if you want plan-level filtering (otherwise leave on Default Region).
  • Fill Data Center Name, Location Name, Location Address, and Location Email (all required).
  • Optionally fill Remote Agent, Location Phone, and Location Description.
  • Click Save Location. On success you land back on the list with the new row at the bottom.

Edit Datacenter

Where: click the pencil icon on a row in the list. The URL becomes ?act=edit_datacenter&dcid=<dcid>.

Why: change any of the nine fields after the fact — typically address fixes, contact updates, or moving a DC into a different Server Region.

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Figure 3 - Edit form. Fields are pre-populated from the existing record.
  1. Country - pre-selected with flag. Changing it updates the list flag immediately.
  2. Server Region - pre-selected from server group id. Switching it can change which bare-metal plans are offered for servers in this DC.
  3. Required text fields - identical to Add. Pre-populated from the existing record.
  4. Save Location - commits the change and redirects back to the list.
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