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 data center locations is available at https://www.equinix.com/data-centers.

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 facility 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.

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

Metro-level Networking¶

The facilities 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 facilities 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 - While the blocks of private IPv4 addresses are facility-based, all the servers within a project in the same Metro can use them to connect to each other. If you need to set up connections between servers in different Metros, you can use Backend Transfer.

Metros Quick Reference¶

Tables

Americas¶

Region	Country	Metro	Code	Facilities
AMER	Brazil	Sao Paulo	SP	sp4
AMER	Canada	Montreal	MT	mt1
AMER	Canada	Toronto	TR	tr2
AMER	United States	Atlanta	AT	at4
AMER	United States	Chicago	CH	ch3
AMER	United States	Dallas	DA	da11, da6
AMER	United States	Los Angeles	LA	la4
AMER	United States	New York	NY	ny5, ny6, ny7
AMER	United States	Seattle	SE	se4
AMER	United States	Silicon Valley	SV	sv15, sv16
AMER	United States	Washington DC	DC	dc10, dc13

Europe and Middle-East¶

Region	Country	Metro	Code	Facilities
EMEA	Finland	Helsinki	HE	he7
EMEA	France	Paris	PA	pa4
EMEA	Germany	Frankfurt	FR	fr2, fr8
EMEA	Netherlands	Amsterdam	AM	am6
EMEA	Spain	Madrid	MD	md2
EMEA	Sweden	Stockholm	SK	sk2
EMEA	United Kingdom	London	LD	ld7

Asia-Pacific¶

Region	Country	Metro	Code	Facilities
APAC	Australia	Melbourne	ME	me2
APAC	Australia	Sydney	SY	sy4, sy5
APAC	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	HK	hk2
APAC	Japan	Osaka	OS	os3
APAC	Japan	Tokyo	TY	ty11
APAC	Korea	Seoul	SL	sl1
APAC	Singapore	Singapore	SG	sg1, sg4, sg5

CLI

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   |
|....                                  |....            |....  |
+--------------------------------------+----------------+------+

API

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"
}