I am new to Azure. I am currently trying to migrate the on-premise databases to Azure Sql Managed Instance. I created the resources in Azure. I now like to connect to the database that I created from my on-premise Sql client from the organization Dev LAN. What configuration should be implemented to make all developers able to connect to this Azure Sql Instance. My organization does not allow to use public endpoint and use 3342 port. How should I proceed?
Thanks for the help!
If your Managed Instance has its public endpoint disabled, then you'll have to connect to the private IP.
So your options are:
Get your network engineers to route your "Dev Lan" to the Azure VNet containing the Managed Instance over a Site-to-Site VPN or ExpressRoute
Set up a Point-to-Site VPN from your client machine to the Azure VNet.
Connect over RDP to an Azure VM "jump box" running SSMS in an Azure VNet that can communicate with the Managed Instance.
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I have an on-premises database which communicates with Azure SQL Sever VM on public cloud using linked server. Now we have a requirement to move the on-prem db to Azure Government Cloud.
After migration to Azure Gov cloud how can I maintain the connection for cross db query between SQL servers on Gov cloud and Public cloud? My understanding is Global vnet peering cannot be maintained between Gov cloud and on-prem cloud.
Is there a way to keep the functionality of cross DB query intact after migration?
One way to solve this would be to move the Azure SQL Sever VM on public cloud to the Azure Gov cloud. When they are both in the same cloud it is possible to do cross server queries.
Since the data on the 2 servers are related, it may be that both belong in the Gov cloud.
While you will not be able to use Global VNET peering between Public & Government clouds, you can use Azure Virtual Network Gateways to establish a VPN between the two clouds. If that is not an option for you, you can configure public IP endpoints for your SQL Servers on both ends. With this option will definitely want to establish firewalls or NSG rules to restrict any other outside traffic.
In most cases it is always the installation of a self-hosted integration runtime in the onpremise network. Or on another host machine (e.g. vm or even vm in the cloud) that can reach the onpremise data source (network settings, firewall rules). I am curious if it is possible to use the Azure integration runtime (for the managed service experience) to connect to the onpremise data sources. Is it possible if I set up a site-to-site with the azure vnet? Or express route? Do i have to expose the endpoints of the onpremise datasource? And how can the azure integration runtime can connect to it it is not in a vnet?
I am not strong in networking but i read all the documentation. I just cannot get my head around it.
It's possible to use Azure Integration Runtime for on-premise data sources because
By enabling Managed Virtual Network, Azure Integration Runtime supports connecting to data stores using private link service in a private network environment. Refer here.
By using a private link, you can connect to various platforms as a service (PaaS) deployments in Azure via a private endpoint. With a private endpoint, you can connect to PaaS via a private IP address within a specific virtual network and subnet.
By setting up an Internet Protocol security (IPsec) VPN (site-to-site) connection or an Azure ExpressRoute (private peering) connection, you can connect an on-premises network to your Azure virtual network.
Also, there is a similar STARTED feature request here for more reference.
Is there any way to use Azure Bastion to connect to on-prem systems as well as Azure virtual machines?
I have a hybrid cloud environment where some key machines are on-prem and some are Azure VMs. The Azure VNet is extended with a VPN tunnel so the azure VMs can talk to the on-prem machines.
In Googling my question, I was not able to find much...
The official page for Azure Bastion describes it as '''Azure Bastion is provisioned directly in your Virtual Network (VNet) and supports all VMs in your Virtual Network (VNet)'''
This page talks about hybrid envrionments https://blog.ahasayen.com/introducing-azure-bastion/ , saying:
'''You might also have some sort of hybrid connectivity with your on-premises network and when you are outside the office, you use point to site VPN to securely access your VNET, which is the ideal situation.'"
I am aware of Azure Arc which is currently in preview. Would something like that be appropriate to make this work?
My overall questions are:
Am I totally barking up the wrong tree here? Is my understanding off?
Is it possible to use Azure Bastion to access an on-prem server on an extended VNet?
Thanks in advance!
As far as I know, currently, it's not possible to use Azure Bastion to access an on-prem server on an extended VNet. You only could use Azure Bastion to access all the VMs in the VNet which has AzureBastionSubnet. Refer to this blog
Azure Bastion resides on the same virtual network (VNet) as the
servers accessed and only connects to one VNet.
Actually, you can have a private and securely RDP/SSH connection between your on-premise server and Azure VM via a VPN gateway, you just can not RDP/SSH on-premise server via Azure portal. If you need this feature with Azure Bastion, it's welcome to give feedback or upvote these similar feedback1 and feedback2.
Hope this could help you.
This is now possible via the new capabilities introduced in Azure Bastion Standard Tier.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/connect-ip-address
We setup a Point-to-Site azure VPN gateway to allow us to connect to our Virtual Machines and azure SQL instance. The gateway is linked to the Virtual Network where our VM's live, and the Azure SQL has a firewall rule to allow connections from That virtual network. We are able to connect to the VM's but not to the Azure SQL.
I tried linking the Virtual network to the Azure SQL through the firewall settings, it didn't help.
I assume you are using Azure SQL database. It's public and does not deploy in a VNet. Also, VNet Service Endpoints don’t extend to on-premises. So It did not help to connect to Azure SQL database over VPN connection. If you want it to work, you need whitelist your on-premise client public IP address in the firewall of Azure SQL database.
Otherwise, you need to deploy your SQL instance in a VNet, so you need to use Azure SQL Database managed instance. You could follow this quickstart: Configure a point-to-site connection to an Azure SQL Database Managed Instance from on-premises
We are going to work on Azure BizTalk Service + Service Bus Integration for one of our customer. I am exploring those two concepts. but in the mean time, I have also noticed, there is concept of "Site-To-Site" VPN connection" to establish Cloud to On-primes Network.
Can you please let me know in which scenario we need to choose Site-to-Site VPN connection?
Thanks,
Vinoth
You would establish a site-to-site VPN when you want to connect your Azure subscription to your on-premises data center. It could be that your BizTalk or even Service Bus infrastructure is hosted on-premises and you need to connect to it to provide functionality to your cloud service.
We would also use a S2S VPN connection when hosting virtual machines in Azure and want to connect them to networks on-premises. This would let users access these services over our own private network.