vRack and Public Cloud projects
For a given Public Cloud project, you can attach only one vRack. If you wish to build private connectivity between two (or more) Public Cloud projects, you need to attach the same vRack to those Public Cloud projects.
Load Balancer Floating IP in the OVHcloud Control Panel
If you choose to attach a Floating IP to your new Load Balancer instance, you can find the IP address:
- in Horizon
- by using the OpenStack CLI by doing
openstack floating ip list
andopenstack loadbalancer list
- by using the OVHcloud API and this API call:
GET /cloud/project/{serviceName}/region/{regionName}/loadbalancing/loadbalancer/{loadBalancerId}
You can also find the IP address of your Floating IP from the OVHcloud Control Panel by comparing the ID of your Load Balancer instance to the list of Public IPs:
- Select
Public Cloud
from the top navigation bar. - Click
Load Balancer
from the left-hand navigation menu. - Select your load balancer's
Name
.
- On the next page, take note of the
ID
.
- Click
Public IPs
from the left-hand navigation menu. - Find the Floating IP that is associated to your Load Balancer instance.
IPs used by services
When a service is spawned in a subnet, it uses some IPs from the subnet CIDR. The following table provides the number of IPs used by each service. If the subnet has a "small" number of available IPs, this can have an impact. If all L3 services are in use, the total number of IPs used will be 7. We advise using at least a /28
mask.
Used IPs by the service: | In DHCP allocation pool | Outside of allocation pool (gateway_ip) |
---|---|---|
DHCP | 2 | |
Public Cloud Gateway | 1 | 1 |
Public Cloud Load Balancer (Octavia) | 3 |
ICMP traffic toward Load Balancer IP
The traffic toward the Load Balancer IP (private IP or floating IP) is filtered. This means the ping
on these IPs will not answer.
Go further
For more information and tutorials, please see our other Public Cloud Networking support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.
If you need training or technical assistance to implement our solutions, contact your sales representative or click on this link to get a quote and ask our Professional Services experts for a custom analysis of your project.