Purchasing an Intelligent Rack

Scenarios

To get a highly reliable data center runtime environment quickly and eliminate the need for long-term investments in traditional data center site selection, infrastructure construction, facility reconstruction, O&M, and operations, you can purchase intelligent racks to deploy your own server hardware in Huawei Cloud equipment rooms.

The resources deployed in this mode must be used with Direct Connect to connect customers' on-premises data centers to Huawei Cloud equipment rooms.

If you want to deploy your own server hardware in Huawei Cloud equipment rooms, you need to purchase intelligent racks on the management console.

This section uses the separate order transaction as an example to describe how to purchase an intelligent rack.

Constraints

Currently, only the yearly/monthly billing mode is supported.

Process

Figure 1 Process

The following walks you through purchasing resources to paying for orders.

Procedure

1. Log in to the CloudDC console.
2. In the upper right corner of the Overview page, click Buy Resources. The Buy Resources page is displayed.
   Figure 2 Purchasing resources
   
3. Set parameters for iRack and click Add.
   Figure 3 iRack
   

   Table 1 Parameters

   Parameter	Example Value	Description
   Resource Type	iRack	Select the type of the resource to be purchased. Currently, the following resource types are supported: iRack: used to deploy server hardware in Huawei Cloud equipment rooms. iMetal: used to deploy your own servers in Huawei Cloud equipment rooms. CloudDCN: used to connect servers deployed on Huawei Cloud to a private network on the cloud.
   Billing Mode	Yearly/Monthly	Prepaid billing. You pay in advance for a subscription term, and in exchange, you get a discounted rate. Ensure that you have a top-up account with a sufficient balance or have a valid payment method configured first.
   Region	CN South-Guangzhou	For low network latency and quick resource access, select the region nearest to your target users. After the purchase, the region cannot be changed.
   Specifications	clouddc.irack.8kw	Available resource package specifications The package specifications supported by different resource types are as follows: iRack: clouddc.irack.8kw iMetal: clouddc.imetal.host CloudDCN: CloudDCN.GeneralNetwork.25G and CloudDCN.IntelligentNetwork.200G
   Purchase Duration	1 month	Required duration of resources. The purchase duration varies depending on the resource type. For details, see the information displayed on the console. You can select Auto-renew to automatically renew yearly/monthly resources when they expire. For details about auto-renewal rules, see Rules for Setting Auto-Renewal When Automatically Renewing a Cloud Service.
   Quantity	1	The number of resources to be purchased.

4. In the lower right corner of the Resource Package List pane, click Next.
5. After confirming the configuration, click Pay.

   The resource purchase order can be paid only after it is approved.

   Figure 4 Order review
   
6. On the menu bar of the console, choose Billing > Unpaid Orders and view the order status in the Order Status column.

   During the transaction, the order status changes as follows:

   1. Pending approval: The user has submitted an order and is waiting for the approval.
   2. Pending payment: After the order is approved, the user can pay for the order.
   3. Processing: After the payment is complete, the on-premises resource deployment phase starts.
   4. Completed: The offline acceptance is complete, resources are enabled, and the order is complete.