Month: September 2023

How to setup BGP VPN connection with Azure WAN (Lessons learned)

Last few weeks I’ve been busy with setting up an Azure Virtual WAN environment with multiple VPN connections. One of them is a High available VPN with BGP connection to a Fortigate Firewall. Since this Fortigate Firewall is hosted with a 3rd party, I don’t have any screenshots or...

Redundant VPN Gateway reset (Azure WAN)

If you happen to have a redundant setup of a VPN gateway, which happens to be delivered as well with Azure Virtual WAN, you might encounter issues where you want to reset the VPN Gateway. One thing that is not clearly mentioned in the documentation, nor is it in...

Microsoft Azure Boost Preview

Last July Microsoft announced the new Azure Boost in Preview. Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS, such as networking, storage, and host management, onto purpose-built hardware and software. By separating hypervisor and host OS functions from the...