Storage Appliances¶

Equinix Metal™ offers storage appliances that you can reserve that are dedicated to your Project for the duration of the reservation. The console offers the ability to price and request various storage appliances.

Currently, we offer:

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

Requesting a Storage Appliance¶

To place an order for a storage appliance, select Storage from your Project's menu.

Review the available storage appliances and make your selection. When you are ready to make a request, click Request Storage. If you have questions and would like to speak to someone, click Connect with a Specialist.

• Contract Period - We currently offer 12 month and 36 month contracts. Price varies by contract duration, with longer periods having a lower monthly rate.
• Metro - Pick the Metro where the storage appliance will live.
• Plan Capacity - Select the type and size of the storage device you are reserving.
• Quantity - Select the number of specified appliances you want to reserve.

The Rate and Total fields will auto-fill with the rates for the selected Metro, Plan and Capacity, Quantity, and length of your reservation.

Click + to insert additional rows in the form if you want to add appliances in in different Metros, or with different plans and sizes. If you need to vary the reservation's length, you will have to submit a separate request.

Click Review Request. Carefully review the summary to ensure that you have included any terms and discounts that apply to your reservation. Select the check box to confirm the terms.

When you are ready, click Submit request.

Request Fulfillment¶

When your request is submitted, you will get a confirmation email with your request details. Our team may reach out to you with questions or more information about your request.

When your storage appliance is ready for deployment, you will be notified by email with your plan details, including when your contract term will begin and notification that your storage appliance is ready to configure and use.

Managing Storage Appliances¶

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Tags and Settings¶

Storage appliances support custom labeling with tags.

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

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.

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.