Solutions and Guides

Currently Metal's portal does not have an option to preserve the data for reserved servers when an instance is deleted. Considering the default deprovision processes take a very long time for servers with large disk spaces, such as s3.xlarge plan, It'd be a good customer experience if we add an option in UI to enable a customer to preserve data when deleting an instance.

Equinix Metal and VMware are collaborating to bring a VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal (VMC-E) offering to market with a target timeframe of Q3 2023.

Provision Wasabi object storage from console.equinix.com (includes ability to have Metal and Wasabi on a single Equinix bill)

Create and document a sample architecture for OpenEBS ( https://openebs.io/ ) on Equinix Metal, provide an example deployer.

I think there is a few errors in the Network Diagram in the below link, please see highlights in the attached snipet: https://docs.equinix.com/en-us/Content/digital-config/DC-high-availability.htm

Many customers exploring the possibility of leveraging Equinix Metal are looking for the ability to deploy VMware on those bare metal instances through a managed services provider certified under VMware's VCPP offering. Equinix Metal should have an integrated offering or set of offerings that leverage Equinix Managed Services as that VCPP provider, and/or one or more 3rd party VCPP providers.