Ordering a Dedicated Interconnect connection starts the creation process of your Dedicated Interconnect connection. When you order a Dedicated Interconnect connection, you specify details such as the capacity and the location of your connection.
To help you solve common issues that you might encounter when using Dedicated Interconnect, see Troubleshooting.
You can request the following capacities:
- 1 x 10-Gbps (10 Gbps) circuit up to 8 x 10-Gbps (80 Gbps) circuits
- 1 x 100-Gbps (100 Gbps) circuit up to 2 x 100-Gbps (200 Gbps) circuits
Create a Dedicated Interconnect connection group
Cloud Interconnect connection groups provide information about the reliability of the grouped connections, compared to the requirements for your intended level of reliability. For more information about Cloud Interconnect connection groups, see Resiliency and SLA options.
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Interconnect Physical connections tab.
Click Create group.
Specify the details of the Dedicated Interconnect connection group:
- Name: A name for the connection group. This name is displayed
in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to
reference the connection, such as
my-interconnect-group
. - Description: An optional description of the connection group.
- Name: A name for the connection group. This name is displayed
in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to
reference the connection, such as
In the Production SLA field, select the SLA option that you need for your deployment.
Optional: In the Group members field, select Add interconnects.
Optional: In the box, select the Cloud Interconnect connections that you want to add to the connection group. Repeat this step for each Cloud Interconnect connection that you want to add to the connection group.
Click Save.
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When you create a new connection group, you specify an intended SLA by using
the --intended-topology-capability
flag with a value of PRODUCTION_CRITICAL
,
PRODICTION_NON_CRITICAL
, or NO_SLA
. In the following example
command, you create a connection group called
GROUP_NAME
with an intended SLA of
PRODUCTION_NON_CRITICAL
:
gcloud compute interconnects groups create GROUP_NAME \ --intended-topology-capability PRODUCTION_NON_CRITICAL
Note that this new group doesn't yet satisfy your intended SLA because it doesn't have any Cloud Interconnect connections.
Create connections in a Dedicated Interconnect connection group
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Interconnect Physical connections tab.
Click Set up physical connection.
In the Interconnect type field, select Dedicated interconnect connection.
Click Continue.
Select Order a new Dedicated Interconnect connection.
Click Continue.
In the Intended SLA field, select the SLA option that you need for your deployment.
Select Add this interconnect to an existing group.
In the Interconnect group box, select the Cloud Interconnect connection group to which you want to add the new connection.
Click Next.
Specify the details of the Dedicated Interconnect connection:
- Name: A name for the connection. This name is displayed
in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to
reference the connection, such as
my-interconnect
. - Location: The physical location where the connection is created. When you create a connection group, you only choose the facility. The location is chosen automatically.
Capacity: The total capacity of your connection, which is determined by the number and size of the circuits that you order.
Select one of the following options:
- 1 x 10-Gbps circuit in 10-Gbps increments up to 8 x 10-Gbps (80 Gbps) circuits
- 1 x 100-Gbps (100 Gbps) circuit
- 2 x 100-Gbps (200 Gbps) circuits
- Name: A name for the connection. This name is displayed
in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to
reference the connection, such as
Click Next.
If you require redundancy, specify details for your duplicate connection, and then click Next.
Specify your contact information:
- Company name: The name of your organization to put in the LOA as the party authorized to request a connection.
Technical contact: An email address where notifications about this connection are sent. You don't need to enter your own address; you are included in all notifications. You can specify only one address.
If you are creating a connection through Workforce Identity Federation, specifying a Technical contact is required. Workforce Identity Federation is in Preview.
Review your order. Check that your connection details and contact information are correct. If everything is correct, click Place order. If not, go back and edit the connection details.
On the order confirmation page, review the next steps, and then click Done.
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In the following example, you create Cloud Interconnect
connections called CONNECTION_1
and
CONNECTION_2
in the connection group called
GROUP_NAME
. You provide the --interconnect
flag, with a
unique interconnect name and an optional description, once for each new
Cloud Interconnect connection that you want to create in the group:
gcloud compute interconnects groups create-members GROUP_NAME \ --interconnect-type dedicated \ --link-type LINK_TYPE \ --facility FACILITY_NAME \ --customer-name NAME \ --noc-contact-email EMAIL_ADDRESS \ --interconnect "name=CONNECTION_1,description='The first interconnect connection'" \ --interconnect "name=CONNECTION_2,description='The second interconnect connection'"
Replace the following values:
GROUP_NAME
: the name of your connection groupLINK_TYPE
:- If you want your Dedicated Interconnect connection to be made up of 10-Gbps
circuits, replace
LINK_TYPE
withLINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_10G_LR
. - If you want your connection to be made up of 100-Gbps
circuits, replace
LINK_TYPE
withLINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_100G_LR
.
- If you want your Dedicated Interconnect connection to be made up of 10-Gbps
circuits, replace
FACILITY_NAME
: the name of the facility in which you want to create the Dedicated Interconnect connections, without-zone1
orzone2
. The Dedicated Interconnectconnection group automatically selects the best zones for each Interconnect to maximize your resiliency. You can find facility names in the colocation facility table.NAME
: the name of your organization to put in the LOA as the party authorized to request a connectionEMAIL_ADDRESS
: an optional email address for the NOC contact. You can specify only one email address—you don't need to enter your own address because you are included in all notifications. If you are creating a connection through Workforce Identity Federation, providing an email address with the‑‑noc-contact-email
flag is required. Workforce Identity Federation is in Preview.CONNECTION_1
: the name of the first Cloud Interconnect connection.CONNECTION_2
: the name of the second Cloud Interconnect connection.
Create a Dedicated Interconnect connection
When you create a Dedicated Interconnect connection, we recommend that you follow the steps in the previous sections.
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Interconnect Physical connections tab.
Click Set up physical connection.
Select Dedicated Interconnect, and then click Continue.
Select Order new Dedicated Interconnect, and then click Continue.
In the Intended SLA field, select the SLA option that you need for your deployment.
Optional: If you chose a Critical production or Non-critical production SLA, you can create the connection within a new Cloud Interconnect connection group:
- Select Create a new group.
- Specify a name and optionally add a description.
- Click Next.
Specify the details of the Dedicated Interconnect connection:
- Name: a name for the connection. This name is displayed
in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to
reference the connection, such as
my-interconnect
. - Colocation facility: the physical location where the connection is created. Your on-premises network must meet Google Cloud's network in this location.
Capacity: the total capacity of your connection, which is determined by the number and size of the circuits that you order.
Select one of the following options:
- 1 x 10-Gbps circuit in 10-Gbps increments up to 8 x 10-Gbps (80 Gbps) circuits
- 1 x 100-Gbps (100 Gbps) circuit
- 2 x 100-Gbps (200 Gbps) circuits
- Name: a name for the connection. This name is displayed
in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to
reference the connection, such as
Click Next.
If you require redundancy, specify details for your duplicate connection, and then click Next.
Specify your contact information:
- Company name: the name of your organization to put in the LOA as the party authorized to request a connection.
Technical contact: an email address where notifications about this connection are sent. You don't need to enter your own address; you are included in all notifications. You can specify only one address.
If you are creating a connection through workforce identity federation, specifying a Technical contact is required. Workforce identity federation is in Preview.
Review your order. Your SLA eligibility is displayed on this page. Check that your connection details and contact information are correct. If everything is correct, click Place order. If not, go back and edit the connection details.
On the order confirmation page, review the next steps, and then click Done.
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Create a Dedicated Interconnect connection that is a connection type of
DEDICATED
:gcloud compute interconnects create INTERCONNECT_NAME \ --customer-name=NAME \ --interconnect-type=DEDICATED \ --link-type=LINK_TYPE \ --location=LOCATION_NAME \ --requested-link-count=NUMBER_OF_LINKS \ [--requested-features=MACSEC] [--noc-contact-email=EMAIL_ADDRESS] \ [--description=STRING]
Replace the following values:
INTERCONNECT_NAME
: a name for the Dedicated Interconnect connection; this name is displayed in the Google Cloud console and is used by the Google Cloud CLI to reference the connection, such asmy-interconnect
NAME
: the name of your organization to put in the LOA as the party authorized to request a connectionLINK_TYPE
:- If you want your Dedicated Interconnect connection to be made up of 10-Gbps
circuits, replace
LINK_TYPE
withLINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_10G_LR
. - If you want your connection to be made up of 100-Gbps
circuits, replace
LINK_TYPE
withLINK_TYPE_ETHERNET_100G_LR
.
- If you want your Dedicated Interconnect connection to be made up of 10-Gbps
circuits, replace
LOCATION_NAME
: specifies the location where the Dedicated Interconnect connection is created; to list the names of locations, see List locationsNUMBER_OF_LINKS
: number of circuits of typelink-type
; this field combined with--link-type
determines your total connection capacity. For example, for 2 x 100-Gbps (200 Gbps) circuits, this number would be2
.EMAIL_ADDRESS
andSTRING
: optional; for the NOC contact, you can specify only one email address—you don't need to enter your own address because you are included in all notifications. If you are creating a connection through workforce identity federation, providing an email address with the‑‑noc-contact-email
flag is required. Workforce identity federation is in Preview.
For redundancy, create a duplicate Dedicated Interconnect connection that is in the same location but in a different edge availability domain (metro availability zone). For more information, see Duplicate a connection for redundancy.
After you order a Dedicated Interconnect connection, Google sends you a confirmation through email, and allocates ports for you. When the allocation is complete, Google generates LOA-CFAs for your connections and sends them to you through email.
All the automated emails are sent to the NOC contact and the email address of the user account used when ordering the Dedicated Interconnect connection. You can also get your LOA-CFAs by using the Google Cloud console.
You can use the Dedicated Interconnect connection only after your connections have been provisioned and tested for light levels and IP connectivity.
Note: Billing for your Dedicated Interconnect connection starts after the connection is ready to use (all tests have passed) or 30 days after your order is received. You aren't charged before then. You can cancel your order by deleting the Dedicated Interconnect connection.