EBC Core

An EBC Core environment is set up for a single customer (single tenant) on dedicated hardware. The infrastructure consists of compute, storage and network resources, that can be configured and managed through a portal. For details on each service component, refer to:

An appropriate EBC environment is designed with an Equinix architect based on standardized building blocks.

Metering

Equinix Managed Services are billed in the following ways:
  • Baseline – The contracted quantity of the service (example: purchase unit vCPU, vRAM)
  • Overage – The amount of GB consumed above the baseline value (example: the contracted storage baseline is 500 GB, 600 GB are used and the overage consumed is 100 GB)
  • Pay per use – Fully variable (example: used amount of GB for back-up)

To measure the quantity of the variable component consumption, Equinix uses metering tools linked to the service management environment. Only the data required to determine the quantity of service consumed are exported to the Equinix billing system. It is mandatory to install the VMware tools on every VM in the EBC Platform.

Reporting

The EBC service contains standard reporting options.

Licensing

For license-related issues, see the Licensing service description.

Note:  

  • Sharing a virtual disk between multiple VMs is not supported within the EBC. Applying Microsoft Windows Server failover clustering (WSFC) with shared disks to EBC is therefore not supported.

  • Application of single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) and physical NIC access from the VM are not supported.

  • Applying memory reservations per VM is not supported.

  • Direct access to the host is not supported.

  • There is no delegated management and support for customers to access the EBC platform management layer.

Options

EBC Virtual GPU

If you need GPU acceleration within your EBC environment, the EBC Core platform offers this option. By applying NVIDIA Tesla GP–cards with direct platform access, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes applications with GPU acceleration possible. A suitable environment is designed with an Equinix architect based on standardized building blocks.

EBC Disaster Recovery

EBC Core offers the option to set up a disaster recovery (DR) location as part of your business continuity plan by applying a DR solution.

The purpose of DR functionality is to shorten the time needed to restore service after disruption. By applying asynchronous or synchronous replication, EBC DR can deliver a recovery point objective (RPO) of up to 0 minutes.

EBC fallback and the DR functionalities are available only at the Amsterdam and Zwolle IBX data center locations.

Relations and Dependencies

See Relations and Dependencies with the following services below -

Managed Firewall

An optional part of the EBC environment is a Managed Firewall solution. This service may be relevant for you to –

  • Facilitate secure access to the public cloud and other external networks.

  • Add functions for intrusion detection (IDS) or intrusion prevention (IPS) to the EBC platform.

  • Have direct access to the management layer of the EBC platform. See Direct platform access for details.

  • Transfer operational firewall management to Equinix.

Important features of the Managed Firewall service are –

  • Firewalling

  • Routing

  • IDS/IPS (order variant)

  • Load balancing

  • VPN

Managed Router

The Managed Router solution is an optional part of the EBC environment. This service may be relevant for you to –

  • Facilitate access to the public cloud, WAN providers and on-premises networks.

  • Transfer operational router management to Equinix.

Important features of the Managed Router are –

  • Dynamic routing

  • Static routing

  • NAT

  • Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)