VWAN simulator: a digital twin for Virtual WAN

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

Which Azure network design is cheaper?

If you have been reading some of my blog posts, you probably know that I have been working on Azure networking for a while. Part of that work has consisted of helping customers to create network architectures based on their requirements. Last week I got a similar ask from a colleague for a large-scale hub-and-spoke … Continue reading Which Azure network design is cheaper?

Azure Bastion routing in Virtual WAN

As you might know, Azure Bastion enables management connectivity to virtual machines without having to assign them public IP addresses, and without having to maintain jump hosts in your Virtual Network. Up to recently, the virtual machines needed to be immediately peered to the VNet where Azure Bastion was deployed, but with IP-based connections Azure … Continue reading Azure Bastion routing in Virtual WAN