Request connections

After you configure your Google Cloud resources, configure your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources. This page provides instructions about how to configure OCI resources to connect with Google Cloud.

After you create VLAN attachments for a Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for OCI connection, configure your OCI resources by creating an OCI FastConnect virtual circuit to establish connectivity into your OCI virtual cloud network (VCN).

OCI configures your VLAN attachments after the virtual circuit is created. To request a Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for OCI connection, contact Oracle or visit their portal.

For definitions of terms used on this page, see Cloud Interconnect key terms.

To help you solve common issues that you might encounter when using Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), see Troubleshooting.

When you request a connection, OCI requires the following information:

  • Your VLAN attachment's pairing key: this pairing key is generated when you create the VLAN attachment.

  • The VLAN attachment's region: the region that you select must be supported by a Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for OCI location, which is a city where OCI's network meets Google Cloud's network. Traffic between your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network and the OCI's network passes through this location. You must choose an OCI location that's paired with the Google Cloud location.

  • Your VLAN attachment's connection capacity: this capacity can range from 1 Gbps to 50 Gbps. The capacity depends on your bandwidth requirements and what's offered by OCI. Pricing for each VLAN attachment is based on its capacity.

After you request a connection and the OCI VLAN attachment configuration is complete, you receive an email notification from Google. The state of your attachment changes from PENDING_PARTNER to PENDING_CUSTOMER. If you pre-activated your attachment, it changes to ACTIVE.

If you pre-activated your VLAN attachment, the attachment can immediately start passing traffic. If not, you must activate the attachment before it can pass traffic.

Configure OCI resources

OCI resources must be created in the OCI location paired with the Google Cloud location. For a list of paired locations, see Paired locations.

Create a VCN

Create a virtual cloud network (VCN) that's in the same region and tenancy as your FastConnect ports.

OCI console

  1. Sign in to the OCI console.
  2. Make sure that the Regions list shows the region where your FastConnect port is located.
  3. In the menu, select Networking > Virtual cloud networks.
  4. Click Create VCN.
  5. Fill in the required fields, and then define at least one IPv4 CIDR block.
  6. Click Create VCN.

Create a subnet

In your VCN, create a subnet.

OCI console

  1. In the OCI console, go to the VCN that you just created.
  2. Click Add subnet.
  3. Fill in the required fields, and then define at least one IPv4 CIDR block.
  4. Click Create Subnet.

Create a DRG and attach it to your VCN

A Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG) is a virtual router. Create a DRG and attach it to your VCN.

OCI console

  1. In the OCI console, on the menu, select Networking.

  2. In the Customer connectivity section, select Dynamic routing gateway.

  3. Click Create Dynamic Routing Gateway.

  4. Enter a name.

  5. Click Create Dynamic Routing Gateway. OCI displays a page that represents the DRG; you might have to wait a few minutes for the system to provision the resource. While it does so, the controls on the page are disabled. When the controls become active, continue to the next step.

  6. Click Create Virtual Cloud Network Attachment.

  7. Enter an attachment name.

  8. Select the VCN network that you created previously.

  9. Click Create Virtual Cloud Network Attachment.

Create a private virtual circuit

Create a private virtual circuit for each FastConnect resource. If you created a pair of VLAN attachments, complete the following steps for each one.

OCI console

  1. Choose a compartment. If you're not sure which one, choose the compartment that contains the DRG to connect to. This compartment, along with a corresponding IAM policy, controls who can access the virtual circuit.
  2. On the main menu, click Networking.
  3. In the Customer connectivity section, click FastConnect.
  4. Click Create Connection.
  5. In the Connection types section, select FastConnect partner, and then choose Google Cloud: OCI Interconnect.
  6. In the Name field, enter a name for the circuit. The value doesn't need to be unique across your virtual circuits, and you can change it later.
  7. Leave the Create in compartment list as it is (the compartment you're in).
  8. For Virtual circuit type, select Private virtual circuit.
  9. In the Dynamic routing gateway list, the DRG you set up earlier is shown. If not, change the compartment to the one that stores the DRG, and then select the DRG.
  10. In the Provisioned bandwidth list, select the capacity that you chose for your VLAN attachment (or the closest value available).
  11. In the Partner service key field, enter the pairing key you received from Google Cloud when you created the VLAN attachment.
  12. In the MTU field, enter 1500 as the MTU value.
  13. Click Continue. The virtual circuit is provisioned.
  14. Click Close.

After the virtual circuit is provisioned, the connection to Google Cloud is active. Then you can activate any VLAN attachments that you didn't pre-activate when you created them. Check the status of provisioning virtual circuits in FastConnect.

After the OCI virtual circuit is created, Google automatically configures an interface and a BGP peering session on the associated Cloud Router. Don't modify these Google-defined configurations because doing so shuts down the BGP session. However, if you delete your attachment, you can delete these configurations.

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