IBM Cloud Direct Link on Classic (End of Market)

The IBM Cloud Direct Link on Classic solution is designed to seamlessly connect your on-premises resources to your cloud resources.

• About Direct Link on Classic
• Abuse of IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud
• What actions do you need to take?
• Alternatives for your Direct Link on Classic deployment
• Basic network configuration
• Benefits of moving to VRF
• BGP specifications for IBM Cloud Direct Link
• Blogs on the IBM website
• Bring Your Own IP Address
• IBM Cloud IP addressing
• Pattern decision tree
• Is IP aliasing problematic?
• Is NAT problematic for your applications?
• No address overlapping
• Objectives
• Partial address overlapping
• Implementation patterns overview
• Related content
• Can I connect to any available region from a given Direct Link location?
• Can I restrict the regions that my Direct Link can reach?
• Can IBM do IPV6 on the private network?
• Can IBM Support IPv6 over Direct Link?
• Can I request to change a VLAN ID on IBM Cloud for a provisioned Direct Link Connect gateway with a VLAN that is already allocated?
• Option 1 - Colocated in an IBM Cloud PoP or data center
• Common approaches that minimize network latency
• Comparing Layer-2 and Layer-3 connections for Direct Link
• Configuring Direct Link on Classic
• Configuring BGP
• Locations
• Connectivity options for IBM Cloud