Installation of OVHcloud Connect Provider from the OVHcloud Control Panel

With OVHcloud Connect, you can link your company network to your private OVHcloud vRack network, without creating a VPN tunnel through the internet. This will give you a quicker, more stable connection with guaranteed bandwidth.

 

Requirements

• An OVHcloud Connect Provider solution
• An OVHcloud vRack
• Access to the OVHcloud Control Panel

 

Instructions

Step 1: Ordering your solution

Once you have ordered your OVHcloud Connect Provider solution, you will receive an order confirmation via email, along with a service key.

Depending on the provider you have chosen, go to their portal to log in via the link provided in the order confirmation email. Then enter your service key and confirm the order presented to you.

Next, check the activation status of your solution in the OVHcloud Control Panel. To do this, go to the Bare Metal Cloud section and click on Network. Next, open OVHcloud Connect and click on your solution. Your solution’s status should have changed to “Active”.

 

Step 2: Associating a vRack

Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel, and navigate to your OVHcloud Connect service via the Bare Metal Cloud and Network menus.

In the Specifications panel, click + Attach a vRack.

Select an existing vRack from the drop-down menu and click Attach.

A message will confirm the vRack association.

 

Step 3: Adding a PoP configuration

Once you have connected your vRack, click the gear icon ⚙ in the PoP configuration section and choose the L3 configuration from the drop-down menu.

You will then need to enter the following and click Create.

The PoP configuration menu will then appear.

 

Step 4: Adding a data center configuration

When your PoP configuration has been set, click Add a configuration under the DC configuration menu.

Select a data center from the dropdown menu, then enter the information required.

You can add additional data center configurations by clicking on the ... button, then Add a configuration.

You must also add a routing configuration.

Adding a routing configuration

Click on the ... button on the desired data center then on Add routing configuration.

Then choose the routing type between Static and BGP.

If you choose the BGP type, then enter the required information:

If you choose the Static type, enter the required information:

You can add multiple routing configurations within the same data center. The configuration type (BGP or Static) chosen for your first configuration will then apply to the next configuration in the same data center.

 

Deleting resources

Each resource (PoP or DC) can be deleted individually, but deleting a parent resource such as DC or POP will automatically delete all the sub-resources.

Recursive removal is slower than sequential removal of each resource.

 

Deleting a Routing Configuration

To delete a routing configuration, click the ... button on the routing configuration to delete, then click Delete.

 

Deleting a DC configuration

To delete a DC configuration, click the ... button on the DC configuration to delete, then click Delete.

 

Enabling the configuration

To delete a PoP configuration, click the ... button on the PoP configuration, then click Delete configuration.

 

Go further

Browse all the OVHcloud Connect guides.

Browse the rest of the OVHcloud US documentation for guides on our other products and services.

Learn more about OVHcloud Connect on the OVHcloud US website.