Pre-requisites
Create the Express Route Circuit
When selecting the resiliency options, choose standard.
Note: We are offering, as of today, both Standard and Maximum Resiliency; soon, we will enable the High Resiliency model when it becomes available (in the Azure regions)
Important Notes:
Region: Select the region closest to the peering location of the circuit
Port type: Select Provider; we are connecting through DE-CIX as a partner
Peering Location: Select the physical location where you want to connect, the onramp
Provider: Choose DE-CIX
Bandwidth: Enter the desired bandwidth that you need
SKU: Leave it in Standard
Billing Model: Metered
Once you have generated the service key, hand it over to DE-CIX to provision the Express Route circuit.
If you prefer and have access to the portal, you can provision the service key on your own following this tutorial:
If the service key has been provisioned, it should be reflected in the provider status.
Configure the Azure Private Peering
Click on Azure Private:
Important notes:
Peer ASN: Your ASN // Azure will use the 12076 as ASN
IPv4 Primary subnet:
Enter a /30 subnet, where the first IP of the net is the one that will be configured on your router; the second will be the one of Azure.
Example: If we select the 192.168.0.0/30 network
Your router: 192.168.0.1/30
Azure: 192.168.0.2/30
IPv4 Secondary subnet: Same note as the primary subnet
VLAN ID: Choose a VLAN ID for connecting with Azure
Shared Key: - Optional - MD5 Hash for using as shared key
This is an example of what it could look like. Click on save after finish.
Establish a BGP Connection towards Azure using the configuration that was set here. Align with your network connectivity partner for the Layer 2 configuration.
To verify if there is layer two connectivity on the Express Route circuit, click on View ARP records.
As it can be seen, Azure is reached, and we see our on-premises:
With these steps, we have achieved connectivity to the edge routers of Azure, but we don´t have access to our resources in the Cloud, therefore is needed to:
After performing these steps, we will connect with our Azure resources.
How to verify if the routes are received:
Click on View Route Table:
