March 31, 2017


Reloading a server with a custom partition scheme

The script will issue an OS reload on your Bare Metal server with a custom partition scheme.

The following code allows you to reload a Bare Metal server with a custom partitioning scheme. You simply need to change the serverId and the partitions to suit your needs. Note that one partition must be marked as the ‘grow’ partition.

require 'softlayer_api' require 'pp'  client = SoftLayer::Client.new(:timeout => 120) server_id = 1154505  config = {   'upgradeHardDriveFirmware' => 0,  'upgradeBios' => 0,  'hardDrives' => [  {  'complexType' => "SoftLayer_Hardware_Component_HardDrive",  'partitions' => [  { 'name' => { "/" => { "minimumSize" => "100"} } },  { 'name' => { "/boot" => { "minimumSize" => ".25" } } },  { 'name' => { "/swap0" => { "minimumSize" => "32"} } },  { 'name' => { "/tmp" => { "minimumSize" => "100"} } },  { 'name' => { "/var" => { "minimumSize" => "100"} } },  { 'name' => { "/remove" => { "minimumSize" => "1", "grow" => "1" } } }  ]  }  ]  }  setclient = client['Hardware_Server'] reload = setclient.object_with_id(server_id).reloadOperatingSystem('FORCE', config)  pp reload