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SOLUTION: connect on-prem and hub with a Site-to-Site VPN with dual-redundancy, ACTIVE-ACTIVE connection

Pre-requisites

In order to apply this solution you have to deploy hub and on-premises playgrounds.

Solution

Here you create and set up the Azure VPN gateway in an active-active configuration, and create two local network gateways and two connections for your two on-premises VPN devices as described above. The result is a full mesh connectivity of 4 IPsec tunnels between your Azure virtual network and your on-premises network.

All gateways and tunnels are active from the Azure side, so the traffic will be spread among all 4 tunnels simultaneously, although each TCP or UDP flow will again follow the same tunnel or path from the Azure side. Even though by spreading the traffic, you may see slightly better throughput over the IPsec tunnels, the primary goal of this configuration is for high availability. And due to the statistical nature of the spreading, it is difficult to provide the measurement on how different application traffic conditions will affect the aggregate throughput.

This topology will require two local network gateways and two connections to support the pair of on-premises VPN devices, and BGP is required to allow the two connections to the same on-premises network.

S2S VPN with dual redundacy configuration

More information on dual-redundancy, active-active VPN gateways for both Azure and on-premises networks.

Enable Active-Active mode

Go to Virtual Network Gateway lab-gateway in Configuration:

  • Active-active mode: Enables
  • Second Public IP Address: hub-gateway-virtualip-2
    • SKU: Basic
  • Configure BGP: enabled
    • ASN: 65513
  • Click Save

Go to Virtual Network Gateway on-prem-gateway in Configuration:

  • Active-active mode: Enables
  • Second Public IP Address: onprem-gateway-virtualip-2
    • SKU: Basic
  • Configure BGP: enabled
    • ASN: 65514
  • Click Save

create Local Network Gateways

create the following gateways

Name IP Address Address Space Region Configure BGP ASN BGP peer IP addr
cloud-net (hub-gateway-virtualip) 10.0.0.0/8 West Europe yes 65513 10.12.4.4
cloud-net-2 (hub-gateway-virtualip-2) 10.0.0.0/8 West Europe yes 65513 10.12.4.5
onprem-net (onprem-gateway-virtualip) 192.168.0.0/16 France Central yes 65514 192.168.3.4
onprem-net-2 (onprem-gateway-virtualip-2) 192.168.0.0/16 France Central yes 65514 192.168.3.5

BGP peer IP addr is th "[default|second] Azure BGP peer IP address" you can see in Azure Virtual Network Gateway > Configuration pane

connection onprem-to-cloud

Open on-prem-gateway, go to Connections and add the following object:

  • Connection Name: onprem-to-cloud
  • Type: Site-to-Site (IPsec)
  • virtual Network Gateway: on-prem-gateway
  • Local Network Gateway: cloud-net
  • Shared Key: password.123
  • Enable BGP: true
  • IKE: IKEv2

connection cloud-to-onprem

Open lab-gateway, go to Connections and add the following object:

  • Connection Name: cloud-to-onprem
  • Type: Site-to-Site (IPsec)
  • virtual Network Gateway: lab-gateway
  • Local Network Gateway: onprem-net
  • Shared Key: password.123
  • Enable BGP: true
  • IKE: IKEv2

connection onprem-to-cloud-2

Open on-prem-gateway, go to Connections and add the following object:

  • Connection Name: onprem-to-cloud-2
  • Type: Site-to-Site (IPsec)
  • virtual Network Gateway: on-prem-gateway
  • Local Network Gateway: cloud-net-2
  • Shared Key: password.123
  • Enable BGP: true
  • IKE: IKEv2

connection cloud-to-onprem-2

Open lab-gateway, go to Connections and add the following object:

  • Connection Name: cloud-to-onprem-2
  • Type: Site-to-Site (IPsec)
  • virtual Network Gateway: lab-gateway
  • Local Network Gateway: onprem-net-2
  • Shared Key: password.123
  • Enable BGP: true
  • IKE: IKEv2

after few minutes, you will see, on on-prem-gateway connections:

Name Status Connection Type Peer
onprem-to-cloud connected Site-to-Site (IPsec) cloud-net
onprem-to-cloud-2 connected Site-to-Site (IPsec) cloud-net-2

and on lab-gateway connections:

Name Status Connection Type Peer
cloud-to-onprem connected Site-to-Site (IPsec) onprem-net
cloud-to-onprem-2 connected Site-to-Site (IPsec) onprem-net

Test solution

Via bastion go to W10onprem (192.168.1.4) and open a RDP connection to hub-vm-01 (10.12.1.4).

Do the same test also from hub-vm-01 to W10onprem.