Associate an OVHcloud Connect to Your vRack

Objective

The vRack is OVHcloud's private networking service. To let your OVHcloud resources (servers, VMs, etc.) communicate through your OVHcloud Connect link, associate the OVHcloud Connect service with a vRack.

What the association does

When you associate OVHcloud Connect with a vRack:

• Traffic from your external network (on-premises, cloud, WAN) can reach OVHcloud services attached to the same vRack.
• OVHcloud services in the vRack can send traffic back through OVHcloud Connect to your network.
• All communication stays private — it never touches the public internet.

Prerequisites

• An OVHcloud Connect service that is active (physical link up or provider connection active).
• A vRack service provisioned on your OVHcloud account. If you don't have one, you can create it from the Control Panel (it's free).
• At least one OVHcloud service (server, VM, etc.) attached to the vRack.

Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel and go to Network > OVHcloud Connect.

Steps to associate

Via the OVHcloud Control Panel

1. Navigate to Network > vRack.
2. Select your vRack.
3. Click Add a service.
4. From the list of eligible services, find your OVHcloud Connect service and select it.
5. Click Add to confirm.

The association is typically effective within a few minutes.

Via the API

import ovh

client = ovh.Client(endpoint='ovh-eu')

vrack_service_name = "pn-12345"
occ_service_id = "your-occ-service-uuid"

# Associate OVHcloud Connect with a vRack
client.post(f"/vrack/{vrack_service_name}/ovhCloudConnect",
            ovhCloudConnect=occ_service_id)

See the OVHcloud API Console for the complete list of vRack-related endpoints.

Via Terraform

resource "ovh_vrack_ovhcloudconnect" "association" {
  service_name      = "pn-abc123"      # Your vRack service name
  ovh_cloud_connect = "ovhcc-xyz789"   # Your OVHcloud Connect service ID
}

Check the OVH Terraform provider documentation for the exact resource name and attributes.

Verify the association

After associating:

1. In the vRack section of the Control Panel, confirm that OVHcloud Connect appears in the list of associated services.
2. Check that the VLAN configuration is consistent: the VLAN ID used in your OVHcloud Connect PoP configuration should match the VLAN used by your OVHcloud resources in the vRack.
3. Test connectivity: ping an OVHcloud resource from your external network to confirm end-to-end private communication.

Removing the association

If you need to dissociate OVHcloud Connect from a vRack:

1. Go to Network > vRack in the Control Panel.
2. Select your vRack.
3. Find the OVHcloud Connect service and click Remove.
4. Confirm the removal.

Warning: Removing the association will immediately interrupt private traffic between your external network and OVHcloud resources in that vRack.

What's next?

• Monitor your OVHcloud Connect
• Set up your vRack network to set up subnets properly

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