Virtual Network Gateway
  • 12 Feb 2024
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1## Introduction

Virtual Network Gateway is an Azure service that makes it easy to establish secure and reliable connections between your on-premises and virtual networks.

Azure offers two types of Virtual Network Gateways:

  • VPN gateway - A VPN gateway lets you securely connect your on-premises and virtual networks over the public Internet, creating a private network that sends encrypted traffic and protects against malware attacks.
  • ExpressRoute gateway - The ExpressRoute gateway works with Azure ExpressRoute to provide private connectivity to Azure with high-speed, low-latency network connectivity. When dealing with business situations involving large data loads and the need for a more dependable and consistent network connection, this kind of gateway is quite helpful.

VPN gateways fall into three categories:

  1. Site-to-Site gateway - Gateways of this type allow connections between an on-premise network and a virtual network through a VPN tunnel. This kind of connection is made possible by on-premise VPN devices having an external IP address.
  2. Point-to-Site gateway - Remote users (or) clients can connect securely to a virtual network through these gateways.
  3. Vnet-to-Vnet gateway - Gateways of this type allow connections between multiple virtual networks.

Resource Dashboard

A default dashboard with a set of predefined widgets will be available for Virtual Network Gateway resources when associated with a Business Application.

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Following is the list of readily available widgets that can be customized based on user requirements:

1. Gateway S2S bandwidth
2. Tunnel bandwidth
3. Tunnel incoming bytes vs outgoing bytes
4. Overall summary

Monitoring

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Connection Monitoring

Turbo360 currently supports the following connection types for monitoring:
i) Vnet-to-Vnet
ii) Site-to-Site
iii ) ExpressRoute

  1. Navigate to Virtual Network Gateway - > Monitoring.
  2. Configure the available connections with the desired threshold values.
  3. Click Save.

The Connection monitoring rule will be saved for Virtual Network Gateway, and the monitoring state will be reflected after every monitoring cycle.

Metric Monitoring

  1. Navigate to Virtual Network Gateway - > Monitoring.
  2. Configure threshold value for the metrics of the Virtual Network Gateway to determine the health state.
  3. Click Save.

The Metrics monitoring rule will be saved for Virtual Network Gateway, and the monitoring state will be reflected after every monitoring cycle.


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