vRack Private Network
vRack private network
Connect all your OVHcloud products and services with a private and isolated network, worldwide.
Global private connectivity made simple
OVHcloud's vRack is a simple and powerful solution for creating your own private network across all OVHcloud regions. It seamlessly connects Public Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Bare Metal servers on a secure Layer 2 network—just like they’re in the same rack and datacentre. With unlimited bandwidth and easy integration, vRack enables you to build scalable infrastructures while keeping data flow private and optimised worldwide, at no extra cost.
Why use vRack?
Simple and free
Provides simple connectivity between various OVHcloud products located in different regions, even on different continents. Easy configuration, no extra cost and unmetered bandwidth make it a great base layer for your cross-service communication.
Enhanced security and privacy
The vRack private network ensures secure, isolated connectivity across all OVH regions. Allows distant applications to privately interconnect with high-availability and a fault tolerant architecture.
High-performance networking
High-speed bandwidth connectivity, crucial for data-intensive operations and real-time processing (depends on the product, up to 4x25Gbps)
Outstanding flexibility for hybrid environments
Compatibility with a wide range of OVHcloud services, including dedicated Bare Metal servers, Hosted Private Cloud, Load Balancer, Public Cloud instances or even remote, on-premise resources (via OVHcloud Connect) gives you the ability to create hybrid-cloud environments in a flexible and secure way.
Discover & interconnect vRack compatible products
Bare Metal dedicated servers
From website hosting to high-resilience infrastructure deployment, leverage dedicated servers that meet your requirements and goals. Choose from a wide range of network, storage and computing options to meet your application and reliability needs.
Hosted Private Cloud
Accelerate your digital transformation with our scalable Hosted Private Cloud solutions. Ensure round-the-clock uptime for your services with a disaster recovery plan (DRP).
Public Cloud services
Choose from multiple OVHcloud infrastructure services and managed platforms to modernise and deploy your cloud-native applications using your data and AI capabilities. Launch your project with on-demand compute, storage, database and network resources in just a few minutes with pay-as-you-go billing.
Additional IP
For outstanding flexibility of exposing your vRack network services directly to the public internet, use our Additional IP addresses. They are agnostic for the underlying infrastructure and can be easily assigned and moved from one service to another.
Enterprise File Storage via Service Endpoint
Connect your OVHcloud services and critical business applications to a high-performance file storage service in a secure and scalable way.
Load Balancer
Our Load Balancer is able to forward traffic to backend servers connected with a vRack private network, allowing you to publicly expose them.
Use cases
OVHcloud's vRack private network technology offers a versatile solution for creating complex, secure and scalable network infrastructures. From basic private connectivity to multi-tenant private environments and public exposition of private services. Let's take a look at various reference architectures using vRack private network:
Cloud private networks
The vRack enables you to isolate your critical servers within a private VLAN. Your data is secure and communication between your servers is not routed via the public network.
Available bandwidth options for private connectivity and specific conditions may vary per product category.
Multi-tenancy
The vRack is a private network that spreads across all OVHcloud locations, allowing you to build a highly available or distributed worldwide infrastructure for your applications, to the region of your choice.
Deploy up to 4000 private VLANs per vRack network to isolate your data even further in multi-tenant environments.
Cross-product
The vRack adapts to the needs of your business. Build your infrastructure using the products and services of our Bare Metal, Public Cloud or Private Cloud universes.
Managed services
Connect your OVHcloud infrastructure and critical business applications to managed-services (i.e.: high-performance file storage service - EFS) in a private, secure and scalable way.
Hybrid Cloud
Connect your on-premise resources to OVHcloud vRack private network using OVHcloud Connect for even more advanced hybrid cloud configurations.
Internet gateway
Publicly expose your dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) vRack applications directly to the internet in regions of your choice using Additional IP blocks. For even more flexibility and resilience, set up protocols such as VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) and leverage on high-availability!
Once an Additional IP is attached to your vRack network, a gateway is created in one of the regions where the IP is geo-located. The limit on public bandwidth capacity in every location is set to 5Gbps (egress, per region, per vRack network) - unless otherwise specified.
vRack regional availability
You can interconnect your products and services within OVHcloud globally, across all of our regions. Full list below.
Most of our regions also allow the ability to route public IP traffic into the vRack network - by using Additional IPs together with a vRack network in a given region.
A region is a geographical area composed of one or more datacentres. More information on the OVHcloud region organisation can be found on this page.
| Region location | Region name | Public IP routing option |
|---|---|---|
| Europe (France - Paris) | eu-west-par | Available |
| Europe (France - Gravelines) | eu-west-gra | Available |
| Europe (France - Roubaix) | eu-west-rbx | Available |
| Europe (France - Strasbourg) | eu-west-sbg | Available |
| Europe (Germany - Limburg) | eu-west-lim | Available |
| Europe (Poland - Warsaw) | eu-central-waw | Available |
| Europe (UK - Erith) | eu-west-eri | Available |
| North America (US - East - Vint Hill) | us-east-vin | Available |
| North America (US - West - Hillsboro) | us-west-hil | Available |
| North America (Canada - East - Beauharnois) | ca-east-bhs | Available |
| North America (Canada - East - Toronto) | ca-east-tor | Available |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore -Singapore) | ap-southeast-sgp | Available |
| Asia Pacific (Australia - Sydney) | ap-southeast-syd | Available |
| Asia Pacific (India – Mumbai) | ap-south-mum | Available |
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Support and documentation
We offer a range of documentation and online support to assist you in setting up and configuring your OVHcloud product.
FAQ
Which services are eligible for the vRack?
You can connect most Bare metal, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud services. Please refer to the specific offer to check eligibility.
Can you spread vRack over multiple OVHcloud regions?
Yes, you can set up a VLAN that spans all OVHcloud regions.
With vRack, can I connect several VLANs to the same server?
Yes, you can build an infrastructure integrating one or multiple servers connected to up to 4,000 VLANs.
How many vRacks can I activate on the OVHcloud Control Panel?
You can create up to 20 vRacks per customer account.
Can I route Additional IPs to vRack?
Yes! Additional IP blocks (IPv4 and IPv6) can be added to your vRack free of charge. This can be done inside the vRack management section in the Control Panel.
How do I rename a vRack?
Use the API to customise the names of your different vRacks or do it directly in your control panel.
Does vRack support Multicast?
Multicast is tolerated within the limit of 20 packets / seconds / servers.
What is vRack’s maximum bandwidth?
The limit is based on OVHcloud server network interface bandwidth capacity. Please refer to a specific Bare metal, Hosted Private Cloud or Public Cloud offer to check specific bandwidth capacity.
How many VLANs can I create in vRack?
You can create up to 4000 VLANs to segment your network by creating multiple logically isolated networks.
Can I use Public IPv6 blocks with my servers inside vRack?
Yes, Additional IPv6 can be used with vRack-connected backends.
Is Additional IPv6 compatible with all vRack features?
The public routing option into vRack only allows the use of the native VLAN of your vRack, so multiple VLANs are not supported. You can use multiple vRacks instead for separation.
Can I subnet my IPv6 block and delegate parts of it to VMs?
Yes, with Additional IPv6 addresses subnets can additionally be defined in routed mode to default to the bridged one.
Which managed services are eligible for Service Endpoint?
Enterprise File Storage is the first managed service eligible for Service Endpoint.