Virtual Rack
Group your servers in your own Virtual Rack with ease
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What is a Virtual Rack?
The virtual rack brings together several virtual servers (whatever their number and physical location in our DataCenter) and connects them to a virtual switch within the same private network. Your servers can communicate privately and securely between each other (in a dedicated VLAN).
Concentrate on your business!
OVH does the rest.
You do not have to worry about the lease of racks in a datacentre, we deliver the servers and the switch, install and ensure hardware maintenance. With our Virtual Rack, you can focus on the heart of your business and leave OVH to manage your hardware and network infrastructure. Better still, the Virtual Rack offers greater flexibility and more - it has no limit! You decide when you want to add a new machine to your Virtual Rack.
High Availability
A fully redundant connectivity
Now you no longer have to fear a fault on the connectivity between the Internet and virtual rack. We doubled everything, be it the router, the firewall (1) or loadbalancer.
Our routers operate in fail-over. Load balancers and firewalls, as master-slave: the configuration and connection status are copied in real-time from master to slave. If one component should fail, the other would take the relay.
Do not leave your network architecture to the mercy of the material.
(1) feature is available at the start of 2012.
Keep your hand on your network.
Personalise and modify your settings.
You communicate your servers securely within your private network (VLAN). You can either, make your server accessible only from your private network and/or public network. Your private network is physically managed by OVH, no application software or network configuration are required on your servers.
You get many features and options:
New! Add your IPv6 RIPE blocks in your virtual rack.
- Enable the routing of a block of public redundant IPs, handle the addressing of your servers.
And exploit the full potential of your virtualised infrastructure with RIPE IP blocks (redundant)
- Benefit at no additional cost for this completely redundant IP block on both front routers
- Interconnect your networks securely with the Cisco ASA VPN
- Secure your network against attacks with the Cisco ASA Firewall
- Have a highly configurable redundant load balancer with the Load Balancer
Ordering and activating your Virtual Rack.
How can I place an order for a virtual rack?
You can individually select the servers you want to add/remove to/from the Virtual rack, directly from your Manager.
You can individually select the servers you want to add or remove from your virtual rack, directly from your Manager.
Additional information
Activating a 100 Mbps server within your virtual rack has resulted in the temporary disabling of your public network server. Monitoring systems, re-installation and netboot are inaccessible as your server is active within your virtual rack. You can restore these services temporarily leaving the virtual server in the rack.
How and how long will my virtual rack take to be setup?
After the payment of your order has been confirmed, we will automatically connect each server you want to your virtual switch. Downtime of the server is almost undetectable (3 seconds, this is the time required to reconfigure your network). Your server will not be rewired, or moved and will continue to operate as before!
You will then receive an email with the information details for how to start using the network of your Virtual rack.
The offer prices
Your virtual rack will be billed to you €29.99 /month any number of servers. Each server must have 'Professional Use' activated on it.