Leaseweb offers private connectivity to Google Cloud from selected Leaseweb data centers.
You can create a network connection from your Leaseweb services to your Virtual Private Cloud in Google.
Description
Cloud Connect supports the Partner Interconnect from Google Cloud Interconnect program.
Partner Interconnect provides access to private IP space (RFC 1918) to a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within Google.
Information
The outgoing (egress) traffic (from Google to Leaseweb) is billed through Google.
Deploying a connection to Google Cloud
The delivery of a Cloud Connect – Google Cloud order has 3 phases:
- Phase 1: Requesting information
- Phase 2: Configuring BGP on Cloud router in Google Cloud console
- Phase 3: Configuring BGP (Leaseweb) and testing
Phase 1
To deploy a connection to Google Cloud, we need some information. You will receive an email requesting the below:
- Google Pairing key
- Private IP space used in the VPC in Google
- Login to the Google Console. In the navigation panel go to Networking > Hybrid Connectivity, select Interconnect
2. In the next Screen, click Get Started.
3. Select the Partner Interconnect connection radio button, and click Continue.
4. Click I already have a Service provider
5. Configure your VLAN attachment. The fields that are required to be filled are:
a. Redundancy – Create a redundant pair of VLAN attachments or Single connection
b. Network – Which VPC network, you will associate this VLAN attachment
c. Region – The VPC region
6. After entering the following information, click the Create button.
a. Cloud Router – If you already have a Cloud Router in the Google region, please select it. If you do not have a Cloud Router, please create one by clicking Create new router. Please click here for instructions how to create a new router.
b. VLAN attachment name – please name your VLAN attachment (Lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens allowed )
c. MTU – select 1500
7. The Google Pairing key has been generated.
We recommend to select the Enabled check box. By checking this box, you pre-activate the VLAN attachment, when configuration is completed the VLAN attachment will be automatically activated.
Click OK.
8. The VLAN attachment has been created. Under Status, you see the message “Waiting for service provider”.
It means that the physical connection has not been deployed yet.
The Google pairing key and Private IP space of your Google VPC are required to deploy the connection. Please reply to our email with both.
Phase 2
Once we have deployed the connection, we will notify you by email and we will request the VLAN attachment IP addresses that have appeared and ask you to configure BGP.
- Login to the Google Console. In the navigation panel go to Networking > Hybrid Connectivity, select Interconnect
2. You will see that several fields have been populated. We require the Cloud Router IP and On premise IP. See below highlighted where to fond the IP addresses.
3. Now it is time to configure BGP to the VLAN attachment. Click Configure BGP. A side screen will appear. On Peer ASN field, please add 65535 and click Save and Continue.
4. Once you have saved, the status in the VLAN attachment will change to “Down”. Please respond to our email with the IP addresses and confirm that you have added 65535 as Peer ASN.
Phase 3
You will be notified by email that the BGP session on Leaseweb side has been configured and asked to test the connection.
We will also provide the the Leaseweb Private IP address that we reserved to be the Gateway,
On your Leaseweb servers, please add a static route for your Google IP space using the Leaseweb Private IP address as Gateway that we provided.
