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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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Challenge
Configure the Virtual Network Gateway
- Verify that the
VPN00-HUB
gateway has the configuration of VpnGw2 SKU to enable 1 Gbps throughput. - Verify that the
VPN41-SPOKE
gateway has the configuration of VpnGw2 SKU to enable 1 Gbps throughput.
- Verify that the
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Challenge
Add a Bidirectional Gateway Connection
- Within the
VPN41-SPOKE
gateway settings, add a connection to enable a VNet-to-VNet bidirectional connection- First connection name: spoke-to-hub-connection
- Second connection name: hub-to-spoke-connection
- Region: East US
- On the Settings tab, set the following values:
- First virtual network gateway: VPN41-SPOKE
- Second virtual network gateway: VPN00-HUB
- Shared key (PSK): Shared key from the lab homepage
- After creating the Bidirectional Gateway Connection, check to see if both connections show as Connected. You may need to provide extra time, and click Refresh multiple times.
- Within the
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