• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘settings’ tab, find ACPI, APIC, PAE or VNC. If you need to disable the VNC, then choose the ‘off’ option from the drop-down menu.

• After making all the necessary changes, reboot VPS.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down further, and check the ‘settings’ tab, change the order to CD ROM, and Hard disk.

• Select the “CDRom” field and if you see that the CD-ROM has been already mounted, then click on unmounts. After that, choose your operating system and click on “Mount”

• Reboot the VPS by choosing “Reboot“, and then you will see a confirmation window. Click ‘yes’ on it

• Quickly click ‘VNC’

• The new page will open quickly and then click on the ‘Java VNC client’ or on the ‘VNC’ button.

• Click “Ok” or enter “Continue” and you will see a “Security Warning“. If it seems Ok, then accept and click the ‘run’ button.

• OS will ask you to “Press any button to start OS Installation” while booting. Press any key on the keyboard and then your OS Installation/Reinstallation would begin. It would show you an option like “Install OS”,  “Test this media”. For OS Installation/Reinstallation, you can select “Install OS” and hit enter.

Once the installation begins while setting up the OS and asks you to create partitions, set-root/admin passwords, etc.

After the installation is complete, don”t forget to set your VPS Boot Order to “(1) Hard Disk (2) CDROM“, otherwise it will reboot your VPS and start in installation mode, instead of normal mode.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down to find a ‘VNC’ option

• You will see a new VNC page. Choose “Java VNC Client” or click on “VNC”

• It would immediately prompt you for confirmation. Click “Ok” or enter “Continue” and you will see a “Security Warning“. If it seems Ok, then accept and click the ‘run’ button.

• The VNC Area will resemble the following screenshot:

Note: If you see some kinds of errors like “Java Blocked”, you would need to white-list your VPS control panel in the Java Security List. After that, it would show you “Java plugin not installed”, then you can install Java software on your computer.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down to find a ‘boot’ option

• You will see a confirmation window and click ‘yes’

It may take a few seconds or minutes and you can reboot the VPS.

How to gracefully shut down VPS Using SolusVM?

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down to find a shutdown option

• You will see a confirmation window and click ‘yes’

It may take a few seconds or minutes and you can reboot the VPS.

For forceful shutdown, you can simply click ‘power off’ option

How to shut down your VPS via Command line?

• Sign in to the SSH Client.
• Enter this command “power off”

Once after executing this command, you may have to wait for some time, VPS will shut down quickly.

• Sign in to your SolusVM Control Panel.

• If you have different kinds of VPS, choose the suitable one.

• Scroll down to find a reboot option

• You will see a confirmation window and click ‘yes’

It may take a few seconds or minutes and you can reboot the VPS.

How to reboot VPS via Command line?

This is one of the best methods to reboot your VPS via the Command line because it may stop all the processes and after that, it helps you initiate the reboot process.

• Sign in to the SSH Client.
• Enter this command “shutdown -r now”

Once after executing this command, you may have to wait for some time, and then the VPS will start rebooting. If you find that VPS is not online after 5-10 minutes, it’s better to reboot the VPS from the SolusVM.