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Create a Hub-Spoke Network Topology in Azure

Your company has a lot of redundant services (DNS, AD, intrusion detection, etc.) in their environment. To alleviate the management effort in maintaining those services, your IT department is centralizing all redundant services into a hub. You will implement a hub-spoke topology, creating a hub VNet and a spoke VNet connection in Azure.

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Path Info

Level

Advanced

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Oct 09, 2020

Challenge

Configure the Virtual Network Gateway
1. In the Azure portal, click All resources.
2. Select the VPN00-HUB gateway and click Configuration.
3. Verify that the SKU is VpnGw2 for 1 Gbps throughput.
4. Select the VPN41-SPOKE gateway and click Configuration.
5. Verify that the SKU is VpnGw2 for 1 Gbps throughput.
Challenge

Add a Gateway Connection
1. Within the VPN41-SPOKE gateway settings, click Connections.
2. Click + Add.
3. On the Create connection page, set the following values:
  - Name: spoke-to-hub-connection
  - Connection type: VNet-to-VNet
  - Second virtual network gateway: VPN00-HUB
  - Shared key (PSK): Shared key from the lab homepage
4. Leave the rest as their defaults, and click Review + create > Create.
5. Select the VPN00-HUB gateway and click Connections.
6. Click + Add.
7. On the Create connection page, set the following values:
  - Name: hub-to-spoke-connection
  - Connection type: VNet-to-VNet
  - Second virtual network gateway: VPN41-SPOKE
  - Shared key (PSK): Shared key from the lab homepage
8. Leave the rest as their defaults, and click Review + create > Create.
Once the Status field displays Connected for both connections, we've successfully finished creating our hub-spoke network topology.

Note: Connection status may not update until you leave the page. To update the status, click Home > All resources > VPN00HUB > Connections. You may need to repeat this multiple times.

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