Azure Virtual WAN Redundant Tunnels

Prerequisites

  • An active Harmony SASE Administrator Portal account and network.

  • Make sure you have installed the Harmony SASE Agent on your devices.

  • Administrator account in the Firewall/ Router/ Cloud Management Portal.

  • Your Harmony SASE network must have at least two different gateways in the same network.

    Notes -

    • You can deploy the gateways in two separate regions for comprehensive ISP redundancy.

    • You can scale up the network. Adding another region does not affect the connection.

Azure Redundant Tunnels - Virtual WAN

Prerequisites

  • An active Harmony SASE Administrator Portal account and network.

  • Make sure you have installed the Harmony SASE Agent on your devices.

  • Administrator account in the Firewall/ Router/ Cloud Management Portal.

  • Your Harmony SASE network must have at least two different gateways in the same network.

    Notes -

    • You can deploy the gateways in two separate regions for comprehensive ISP redundancy.

    • You can scale up the network. Adding another region does not affect the connection.

Step 1 - Configurations in the Azure Management Portal

  1. Access the Azure Management Portal and go to Virtual WANs and click +Create.

    The Create WAN window appears.

  2. In the Basics tab, enter these:

    Item

    Value
    Subscription Select the relevant subscription and resource group.
    Region Region where your resources are located.
    Name Name of the virtual WAN.
    Type Standard

  3. Click Review+create.

  4. Click Create.

Creating a Virtual Hub

Note - If you already have a virtual hub in your Azure region, skip this step.

  1. Access the Azure Management Portal and go to the Virtual WAN you created and from the left pane, click Hubs > +New Hub.

    The Create virtual hub window appears.

  2. In the Basics tab, enter these:

    Item

    Value
    Region Region where your resources are located.
    Name Name of the virtual hub.

    Endpoint

    IP Address
    Hub private address space Select a CIDR range that does not overlap with any existing CIDR (/24 range is the minimal one).

    Address Space

    Subnet value of the network in the Harmony SASEAdministrator Portal.

    Virtual hub capacity

    Select a value according to the maximum number of VMs to be connected through this hub.

  3. In the Site to site tab, enter these:

    Item

    Value
    Create a Site to site (VPN gateway) Yes
    Gateway scale units Select the required value from the list.
    Routing preference Microsoft network

  4. Click Review+create.

  5. Click Create.

Creating a Site

  1. Access the Azure Management Portal and go to the Virtual WAN you created, and from the left pane, select VPN sites.

  2. Click +Create site.

    The Create VPN site window appears.

  3. In the Basics tab, enter these:

    Item

    Value

    Region

    Region where your resources are located.

    Name

    Name of the VPN site.

    Device vendor

    Harmony SASE Perimeter 81

    Private address space

    Leave as empty.

  4. Click Next:Links.

    The Links tab appears.

  5. Enter these:

    Item

    Value
    Link name Name of the link that connects to the first Harmony SASE gateway.
    Link speed 1024
    Link provider name Harmony SASE Perimeter 81
    Link IP address IP address of the first Harmony SASE gateway.

    Link BGP address

    Any address in the permitted range.

    Link ASN

    ASN for your Harmony SASE network.

  6. Repeat the above step to link the second Harmony SASE gateway.

  7. Click Review+create.

  8. Click Create.

Connecting the Site to your Virtual Hub

  1. Access the Azure Management Portal and go to the Virtual WAN you created, and from the left pane, click Hubs.

  2. Click the virtual hub you created.

    The Hub page appears.

  3. From the left pane, in the Connectivity section, click VPN (Site to site).

    The VPN (Site to site) page appears.

  4. Clear the filter to view your site in the list.

  5. Select the checkbox next to the created site and click Connect VPN Sites.

    The Connect sites window appears.

  6. Enter these:

    Item

    Value
    Pre-shared key (PSK) Pre-shared key for this connection.
    Protocol IKEv2
    IPsec Custom
    SA Lifetime in seconds 28800
    IKE Phase 1
    Encryption AES256

    Integrity/PRF

    SHA256

    DH Group

    DHGroup14

    IKE Phase 2(ipsec)

    IPsecEncryption

    AES256

    IPsec Integrity

    SHA256

    PFS Group

    PFS14

    Propagate Default Route

    Disable

    Use policy based traffic selector

    Disable

    Configure traffic selector

    No

    Connection Mode

    Default

  7. Go to the VPN (Site to site) window and click View/Configure to configure the gateway.

    The Edit VPN Gateway window appears.

  8. In the VPN Gateway Instance 0 section, set the Custom BGP IP Address to the same network range as the BGP address for the first link.

  9. In the VPN Gateway Instance 1 section, set the Custom BGP IP Address to the same network range as the BGP address for the second link.

  10. Click Edit and then Confirm.

  11. Go to the VPN (Site to site) window and click Download VPN Config to download the configuration.

  12. Click the download link.

    The system downloads the configuration file.

Step 2 - Creating the Tunnels in the Harmony SASE Administrator Portal

  1. Access the Harmony SASEAdministrator Portal and click Networks.

  2. Click the network where you want to create the tunnel.

  3. In one of the gateways, click > Add Tunnel.

  4. Click IPSec Site-2-Site Tunnel and click Continue.

  5. Select Redundant Tunnels and click Continue.

    The Redundant IPSec Tunnels window appears.

  6. Copy the values for the first tunnel from the downloaded configuration file:

    Item

    Value
    Shared Secret PSK
    Harmony SASE gateway Internal IP Inside IP Addresses of Customer Gateway
    Remote Public IP & Remote ID Public IP Addresses of VPN Gateway Instance 0.
    Remote Gateway internal IP BGPPeeringAddress of VPN Gateway Instance 0
    Remote Gateway ASN Azure ASN

    In the Harmony SASE Administrator Portal, enter the values for Tunnel 1 as:

  7. Repeat step 6 for the second tunnel.

  8. In the Shared Settings section:

    1. In Proposal Subnets, select Any(0.0.0.0/0) for both sides.

    2. ASN number must be the same for the Harmony SASE side.

  9. In the Advanced Settings section, enter the information for your tunnel type (unless you have configured customer settings on the Azure side):

    Field

    IKE Version

    IKE Lifetime

    Tunnel Lifetime

    Dead Peer Detection Delay

    Dead Peer Detection Timeout

    Encryption (Phase 1)

    Encryption (Phase 2)

    Integrity (Phase 1)

    Integrity (Phase 2)

    Diffie Hellman Groups (Phase 1)

    Diffie Hellman Groups (Phase 2)

    Cloud Vendor

    Amazon AWS

    Single Tunnel - AWS Virtual Gateway V2 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha512 sha512 21 21
    Single Tunnel - AWS Transit Gateway V2 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha512 sha512 21 21
    Redundant Tunnels - AWS Virtual Private Gateway V2 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha512 sha512 21 21
    Redundant Tunnels - AWS Transit Gateway V2 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha512 sha512 21 21

    Google Cloud Platform

    Single Tunnel 1 V2 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha512 sha512 21 21

    Redundant Tunnels

    		 V2 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha512 sha512 21

    21
    Microsoft Azure  

    Single Tunnel -

    Azure Virtual Network Gateway

    V2

    3600s

    27000s

    10s

    45s

    		 aes256 aes256 sha1 sha1

    2

    2

    Redundant Tunnels - Virtual Network Gateway

    V2

    9h

    9h

    		 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha1 sha1

    2

    2

    Redundant Tunnels - Virtual WAN

    V2

    8h

    		 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256

    sha256

    sha256

    14

    14

    Other tunnel types

     
    Alibaba Cloud V1 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256 sha1 sha1 2 2

    IBM Cloud

    V1

    		 8h 1h 10s 30s aes256 aes256

    sha256

    sha256

    21

    21

    1 Suggested values. For other supported ciphers, see this Google article.

  10. Click Add Tunnel.