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Metros

Equinix Metal™ Metros are facilities that are grouped together geographically and share capacity and networking features. Our metros span Equinix IBX facilities in the Americas, Europe and Middle-East, Asia-Pacific regions.

A map of all Equinix and Equinix Metal data center locations is available at https://deploy.equinix.com/locations/.

Provisioning within a Metro

When you provision servers on Equinix Metal, you select the Metro where you want it to live. We determine which specific IBX within the Metro your server physically resides in based on a variety of factors including the capacity of the Metro and the entitlements of your account or organization.

When you provision a new on demand server, selecting a Metro is the first choice you make.

Screenshot of Selecting a Metro for an On Demand Server

For Reserved Hardware, you choose the Metro to make your reservations in. You can reserve hardware across multiple Metros.

When you use the metal device create command, use the --metro or -m parameter to specify the Metro.

metal device create -p $METAL_PROJECT_ID -P <plan> -m <metro> -H <hostname> -O <operating_system>

When you send the provisioning POST request projects/{id}/devices endpoint, use the "metro" field with the metro_code where you want the server to live.

curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Auth-Token: <API_TOKEN>" \
"https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/projects/{id}/devices" \
-d '{
    "metro": "<metro_code>",
    "plan": "<server_type>",
    "operating_system": "<os_code>"
}'

For the ways you can check inventory and monitor capacity, see the Inventory and Capacity page.

Metro-level Networking

All of Equinix Metal's IBX locations in a Metro are interconnected by high-speed links with typical latency within less than 5 milliseconds in a Metro and there is no billing of traffic between IBXs within a Metro.

Additionally, many of our Networking features are designed to take advantage of this.

  • VLANs - When you provision a VLAN in a Metro, all servers in that Metro are able to connect to it.
  • Reserved Public IPv4 Addresses - When you request a public IPv4 address, you will be able to assign it to any server in the Metro where you requested it.
  • Private IPv4 Addresses - All servers within a project in the same Metro can use private IPv4 addresses to connect to each other. If you need to set up connections between servers in different Metros, you can use Backend Transfer.

One thing to note about the Equinix Metal network in a Metro -- because of it's highly connected design, IBX-level server diversity does not guarantee high-availability. High-availability and redundant architectures should span multiple metros. More information is on the Location Diversity and Resilience page.

Metros Quick Reference

Americas

Region Country Metro Code
AMER Brazil São Paulo SP
AMER Canada Montreal MT
AMER Canada Toronto TR
AMER United States Atlanta AT
AMER United States Chicago CH
AMER United States Dallas DA
AMER United States Los Angeles LA
AMER United States New York NY
AMER United States Seattle SE
AMER United States Silicon Valley SV
AMER United States Washington DC DC

Europe and Middle-East

Region Country Metro Code
EMEA Finland Helsinki HE
EMEA France Paris PA
EMEA Germany Frankfurt FR
EMEA Netherlands Amsterdam AM
EMEA Spain Madrid MD
EMEA Sweden Stockholm SK
EMEA United Kingdom London LD

Asia-Pacific

Region Country Metro Code
APAC Australia Melbourne ME
APAC Australia Sydney SY
APAC Hong Kong Hong Kong HK
APAC Japan Osaka OS
APAC Japan Tokyo TY
APAC Korea Seoul SL
APAC Singapore Singapore SG

You can list the available metros using the metal metros command.

metal metros get

Example response (truncated):

+--------------------------------------+----------------+------+
|                  ID                  |      NAME      | CODE |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+------+
| b8ffa6c9-3da2-4cf1-b48d-049002b208fe | Seattle        | se   |
| 96a57b6d-c62c-41b5-ab8e-f8d63a7f9887 | Washington DC  | dc   |
| d50fd052-34ec-4977-a173-ad6f9266995d | Hong Kong      | hk   |
| 108b2cfb-246b-45e3-885a-bf3e82fce1a0 | Amsterdam      | am   |
| 932eecda-6808-44b9-a3be-3abef49796ef | New York       | ny   |
|....                                  |....            |....  |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+------+

Sending a GET request to the /locations/metros endpoint returns a list of Metros available to your user account. 

curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: <API_TOKEN>' https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/locations/metros

Example response (truncated):

{
"metros": [
    {
    "id": "96a57b6d-c62c-41b5-ab8e-f8d63a7f9887",
    "name": "Washington DC",
    "code": "dc",
    "country": "US"
    },
    {
    "id": "d50fd052-34ec-4977-a173-ad6f9266995d",
    "name": "Hong Kong",
    "code": "hk",
    "country": "HK"
    },
    {
    "id": "108b2cfb-246b-45e3-885a-bf3e82fce1a0",
    "name": "Amsterdam",
    "code": "am",
    "country": "NL"
    },
    {
    "id": "932eecda-6808-44b9-a3be-3abef49796ef",
    "name": "New York",
    "code": "ny",
    "country": "US"
    },
    {
    "id": "5f72cbf6-96e4-44f2-ae60-213888fa2b9f",
    "name": "Tokyo",
    "code": "ty",
    "country": "JP"
    },
    ....
]
}

Sending a GET request to the /locations/metros/{id} endpoint returns information for the specified Metro.

curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: <API_TOKEN>' https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/locations/metros/{id}

For example, using the ID of the New York metro, 932eecda-6808-44b9-a3be-3abef49796ef:

{
"id": "932eecda-6808-44b9-a3be-3abef49796ef",
"name": "New York",
"code": "ny",
"country": "US"
}

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