Updated 2025-01-15

FastConnect: Colocation with Oracle

This topic is for customers who are colocated with Oracle in a FastConnect location.

For a summary of the different ways to connect, see How and Where to Connect.

If you instead have a relationship with one of the FastConnect Partners, see FastConnect: With an Oracle Partner. Or if you have a relationship with a third-party provider, see FastConnect: With a Third-Party Provider.

For general information about FastConnect, see FastConnect.

Note

It is possible to connect two VCNs in different regions using FastConnect colocation, with inter-region traffic using that link rather than the Oracle backbone. A Layer 3 device is required to implement this, even for a layer 2 connection. Details of this use case are not available, but are similar to Connecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Amazon VPC with Megaport Cloud Router or Connecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform with Equinix Network Edge Cloud Router.

Getting Started with FastConnect

Note

In general, this topic assumes that your router supports link aggregation (LAG) and you will set up a cross-connect group (a LAG) with at least one cross-connect in it. The following procedures reflect that. However, if your router doesn't support link aggregation, you can instead set up a single non-LAG cross-connect (with no cross-connect group). The procedures in this topic are still generally applicable. Instead you work only with a single cross-connect and not one or more in a cross-connect group.

Learn and Plan

If you haven't yet, walk through the planning in Before Getting Started: Learn and Plan. Also see FastConnect Redundancy Best Practices and Hardware and Routing Requirements.

You may also need to review information on how to use FastConnect if you do not own a Public ASN or Public IP Address.

The following diagram shows the overall process of setting up FastConnect with colocation. The tasks described below are represented in the diagram.

This chart shows the steps for getting started with FastConnect

Managing Your Connection

Monitoring Your Connection

You can monitor the health, capacity, and performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources by using metrics, alarms, and notifications. For more information, see Monitoring and Notifications.

For information about monitoring your connection, see FastConnect Metrics.