Thoughts from the clouds
Sometimes it is difficult analyzing the routing behavior of your Azure environment: on one side you have Virtual WAN routing rules, which are defined by settings such as routing intent and hub routing preferences, and on the other you have connectivity technologies such as ExpressRoute, SD-WAN and VPN tunnels with static routing or BGP. Not … Continue reading VWAN simulator: a digital twin for Virtual WAN
In Azure you have two main ways of managing your virtual network connectivity: self-managed hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN. Virtual WAN is a solution where Microsoft manages part of your virtual networks for you, and in exchange it gives you some benefits such as any-to-any routing out of the box. However, what if you need that … Continue reading Interregional traffic in hub-and-spoke
After some questions in my previous blog post CLI-based analysis of an ExpressRoute private peering I decided to write an addition that includes what Expressroute Global Reach looks like for the CLI lover. In essence, Global Reach allows to use Microsoft’s backbone network for onprem-to-onprem communication. But how does it do it exactly? I have … Continue reading ExpressRoute Global Reach under the covers
I have heard some organizations complaining that deploying a fully functional ExpressRoute circuit takes too long: days, or even weeks. Does this always have to be like that? I recently got access to Megaport‘s service portal: Megaport is one of Azure ExpressRoute providers, and they can provision virtual routers dynamically and connect them to Azure … Continue reading Deploying ExpressRoute with Megaport in 1 hour
