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As of Jan 2025, Equinix Metal is no longer accepting orders for new storage appliances. There will be no changes to the service or support of existing reservations. Customers with storage appliances can contact sales to expand their capacity, if needed.

Equinix Metal™ offers storage appliances that you can reserve that are dedicated to your Project for the duration of the reservation. Our current storage appliances are:

  • Dell PowerStore on Equinix Metal
  • NetApp ONTAP
  • Pure Storage
  • Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage

Managing Storage Appliances

If you have a Storage Appliance provisioned to your Project, it appears in the table on the Storage page.

Provisioned Storage Table in the Console

Use the View Catalog and View Appliances toggle to switch switch between the two screens.

Toggle between Appliances and Catalog

From the list of storage appliances, click the arrow to access and manage a storage appliance.

Your Storage Appliance's Overview tab provides basic information about the appliance, including the vendor, Metro, appliance type, a primary ID, and IDs for each controller interface of the appliance.

A Storage Appliance's Overview in the Console

If you have any questions or need assistance with your storage appliance, click Open Support Ticket.

Note: this page covers the newer, more streamlined Storage Appliance console user experience. Use the toggle on the Storage page to switch back to the old experience.

Toggle for Old and New Storage Appliance UX

Storage Appliance Networking

The Networking tab shows information on the Layer 2 networks connected to each of the on board ports per controller for your storage appliance. It also allows you to attach and remove VLANs from the controller interfaces.

Storage Appliances Networking Tab in the Console

To attach VLANs to your appliance, in the Layer 2 section click +Attach VLAN.

The Layer 2 Section of the Networking Tab

In the Add New VLAN pane, select the interface the VLAN will connect to and the VLAN (or VLANs) from the drop-down menus. Only available VLANs in the same Project and Metro will be available. Click Attach VLAN.

Attaching a VLAN to a Controller Interface

You can attach VLANs to the interfaces of each controller.

To remove a VLAN from an interface, click the trash can. This only removes the VLAN from the interface, it does not delete the VLAN or remove it from your Project.

Removing a VLAN from a Controller Interface

Tags and Settings

Storage appliances support custom labeling with tags.

A Storage Appliance's Tags Tab in the Console

On the Settings tab, you can update the name and description of your storage appliance.

Storage Appliance Settings Tab in the Console

To rename an appliance or update the description, enter the new values into their respective fields, and click Save Changes.

There are fields displaying the IDs of the controllers, but these fields are not editable.

Removing a Storage Appliance

Storage Appliances are available on-contract and are not automatically deprovisionable. Click Contact Specialist to start the removal process.

Contact Specialist to Remove a Storage Appliance

Once you choose to deprovision your storage appliance and we remove it from your Project, you will not be able to recover the appliance. All the data on the appliance will be deleted.

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