Thoughts from the clouds
There are two articles in Microsoft documentation that contain the most important guidelines to configure routing over ExpressRoute: Optimize routing for Azure ExpressRoute Azure ExpressRoute: Designing for disaster recovery Both are good articles and describe correct design patterns, but they were written a long time ago and most readers struggle to map those concepts to … Continue reading Optimal routing with ExpressRoute – Revisited
One of the most common and yet complex networking designs in Azure is interconnecting Azure IaaS workloads deployed in a Virtual Network, vSphere virtual machines in an Azure VMware Solution private cloud, and on-premises networks. My esteemed colleague Robin Heringa kindly gave me access to an AVS cluster, so armed with the fantastic possibilities that … Continue reading Azure VMware Solution networking voodoo
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
