Order Cross-Cloud Interconnect connections

To begin the process of connecting to Alibaba Cloud, order your Cross-Cloud Interconnect connections.

Before you begin

This section describes required permissions, information, and setup steps.

Required roles

Before proceeding, you need the required permissions. Ask your administrator to make sure that you have the Compute Network Admin (roles/compute.networkAdmin) IAM role on the project. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation.

Required information

Make sure that you have the names of the remote location and Google Cloud location that you want to use. If you don't have this information, see Choose your locations.

Project selection

If you're using the Google Cloud CLI, set your project ID by using the gcloud config set command.

gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

The gcloud CLI instructions on this page assume that you have set your project ID.

Order your connections

When you order a Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection, Google reserves a port on a router at the location that you specify. Google later uses this port to create your connection to an Alibaba router.

To satisfy the Cross-Cloud Interconnect service level agreement, order two connections: a primary connection and a redundant one.

After you place each order, you get an email confirming your order.

Console

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Interconnect Physical connections tab.

Go to Physical connections

Click Set up physical connection.
In the form that's displayed, select Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection, and then click Continue.
On the next page, keep the default selection of Order new Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection, and then click Continue.
On the Create Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection page, enter details about the primary connection:
- Enter a Name for the connection.
- Optional: Enter a Description.
- In the Remote cloud provider field, select Alibaba Cloud.
- In the Remote location field, select the Alibaba location.
- In the Google Cloud location field, select the Cross-Cloud Interconnect location.
- Set Capacity to 10 Gb/s. Because Alibaba Cloud does not support LACP and does not support 100 Gb/s links, the other options are not valid.
For help with setting the Remote location or Location field, see Choose your locations.
Click Next.
In the next form, enter details about your redundant connection:
- Enter a Name for the connection.
- Optional: Enter a Description.
- Leave the Remote location and Google Cloud location fields set to the same values that you selected for the primary connection.
Click Next.
Enter an email address in the Technical contact field.
Click Next.
Review the order, including the information about billing. If the summary of your details is correct, click Place order. If not, go back and edit the connection details. Then return to this step and place the order.
In the order confirmation dialog, click Submit.

gcloud

Use the gcloud compute interconnects create command.

Related to this command, note the following:

Cross-Cloud Interconnect is similar to Dedicated Interconnect in the sense that it does not require you to use a partner provider. For that reason, set the --interconnect-type flag to DEDICATED.
Alibaba Cloud does not support Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) and doesn't support 100 Gb/s links. For that reason, set --requested-link-count to 1 and set --link-type to LING_TYPE_ETHERNET_10G_LR. If you need more capacity, order additional Cross-Cloud Interconnect connections.

Complete the following steps:

Create the primary connection:
```
gcloud compute interconnects create CONNECTION_NAME_1 \
    --interconnect-type=DEDICATED \
    --link-type=CAPACITY \
    --requested-link-count=1 \
    --location=GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION_1 \
    --remote-location=REMOTE_LOCATION \
    --description=DESCRIPTION_1 \
    --noc-contact-email=CONTACT_EMAIL_1
```
Replace the following:
- CONNECTION_NAME_1: the name of the primary Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection
- CAPACITY: the capacity of the connection—for example, LINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_10G_LR or LINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_100G_LR
- GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION_1: one of the two edge availability zones associated with the Google Cloud location you want to use—for example, fra-zone1-58
- REMOTE_LOCATION: the remote location
- DESCRIPTION_1: an optional description of your connection
- CONTACT_EMAIL_1: an email address that Google can use to contact you
Create the redundant connection:
```
gcloud compute interconnects create CONNECTION_NAME_2 \
    --interconnect-type=DEDICATED \
    --link-type=CAPACITY \
    --requested-link-count=1 \
    --location=GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION_2 \
    --remote-location=REMOTE_LOCATION \
    --description=DESCRIPTION_2 \
    --noc-contact-email=CONTACT_EMAIL_2
```
Replace the following:
- CONNECTION_NAME_2: the name of the redundant Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection
- CAPACITY: the capacity of the connection; this value must be the same as the capacity of the primary connection
- GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION_2: one of the two edge availability zones associated with the Google Cloud location you want to use; do not use the same zone that you used for the primary location—for example, if you chose fra-zone1-58 for the primary connection, use fra-zone2-58 for the secondary one
- REMOTE_LOCATION: the same remote location that you specified in the preceding step, when you created the primary connection
- DESCRIPTION_2: an optional description of your redundant connection
- CONTACT_EMAIL_2: an email address that Google can use to contact you about the redundant location

Choose your locations

Order Alibaba Cloud ports