My application is hosted in Windows Azure.
I have partnered with enterprise to offer service to their customers.
However , they require VPN connection between us (in the cloud) and their enterprise application.
What is the best way to do this?
Installing software on their machine is not an option.
Windows Azure now has a Virtual Network, announced as part of the Spring 2012 release. It lets you connect your on-premises network to Windows Azure via IPSEC, and takes advantage of your on-prem hardware VPN device.
Summary information here, and tutorials here.
As Azure roles accepts only http/https ant tcp connections "classic" IPSec or PPTP is not an option.
Az Azure roles are Windows Server 2008/R2 you can configure SSTP connection to Azure with startup script or cutom VM Role.
Azure roles has random internal IPs so you'll have to deal with IP resolving too.
Windows Azure Connect allows you to setup an IPSec tunnel between your Azure application and a local network. See:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/
and
http://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/vpn-gateway-point-to-site-create/
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I was looking for the way to connect my Azure Web App using a hybrid connection to my On Premise Database server, Oracle Linux.
Any suggestions?
greetings.
Unfortunately, Hybrid Connection Manager does not Support for Linux. The Hybrid Connections feature requires a relay agent in the network that hosts your Hybrid Connection endpoint. The reply agent (HCM) is not supported on anything earlier than Windows Server 2012. Refer to this doc: Azure App Service Hybrid Connections.
Also, you can vote this for HCM Support for Linux so that Azure App Service Team will receive your feedback and will have a support plan in the future.
It is recommended to run Oracle Software on Azure which brings scalability, flexibility, security, and performance to your Oracle workloads—while reducing the cost of infrastructure management. You can see the list of Oracle images.
Currently I am designing a solution for connecting Smart devices that are hosted behind a Router using NAT. The Central service etc are hosted on Azure. One idea is to join all devices and the Azure components in a VPN using the Point to Site solution. The smart devices do not have a Windows based operating system. In the portal the configuration for the Windows standard VPN client is available. I now would like to find out if it is posible to Connect to the Azure VPN using other clients and so how to configurate these(Setting the GateWay, attachint the client cetificate etc.)
If your client architecture permit it, you may put in place on the client side a Windows (or Linux) machine having a gateway role. You will either:
connect this machine to Azure via Point-to-Site SSTP VPN and expose a service acting as proxy from the cloud service to the local devices
use Azure IoT Gateway SDK for all this: https://azure.microsoft.com/fr-fr/blog/introducing-the-azure-iot-gateway-sdk-beta/
In any case this architecture is more robust. But works only if it possible from your client architecture point of view.
I'm trying to setup Azure Connect so my worker role in the cloud can access my SQL Server database on my private premises.
I've followed the articles here, here and here, but they all seem outdated.
Furthermore, i'm using Visual Studio 2012, and there is no "Virtual Network" tab on the project properties, on anything related to "Azure Connect".
I'm assuming it's been rebranded as the "Virtual Network" tab in the management portal?
Can anyone help?
Azure Connect is getting retired on July 3, 2013. You should make the transition to Windows Azure Virtual Network before then.
You should now use the Point-to-Site VPN feature that was announced last week (April 26): https://azure.microsoft.com/documentation/articles/vpn-gateway-point-to-site-create/
With the Point-to-Site VPN feature of Virtual Network, you can easily set up secure VPN connections between individual computers running Windows and a virtual network in Windows Azure. The feature relies on the built-in VPN client functionality of the Windows operating system (supported versions are Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012), so there’s no need to install an agent software, as there was with Windows Azure Connect. Furthermore, with the Point-to-Site VPN feature, you get the full functionality of the Windows Azure Virtual Network service.
We have a corporate web services with back end SAP, CRM etc. We would like to expose this web service (java web service) so that azure web role can connect to corporate intranet web services.
Could someone please suggest which of below technologies will fit and why:
1. Windows Service Bus
2. Windows Azure Connect
or 3. VPN (Virtual Network).
Service bus will require some effort to get working, but is a good solution if your corporate network overlords are very picky about exposing endpoints. Windows Azure Connect creates a VPN-like tunnel, but requires that specific software be installed, configured and maintained. I have an app that successfully uses virtual networking and utilises existing VPN gateways and skills - very understandable to the security and networking people.
Can anybody tell me how to connect a web app running on azure to existing web services (.ASMX) on premises?
We do not have the source for the services they are exposed by third party applications and we do not want to open them up to public access.
Sounds like Azure's Service Bus Relay Service might be what you're looking for...
There might be three options based on your scenario. But I personally prefer the third one.
If you used azure cloud service (web role, worker role), you can use Windows Azure Connect. It builds an IP-sec communication between the azure machine and your local machine. Then you can connect to your local service through the its IPv6 address.
If you used azure virtual machine to host your azure project you can use Virtual Network. It's more powerful than the Windows Azure Connect.
You can use Windows Azure Service Bus Relay. It can open your local service to the cloud regardless how your azure project is hosted. But since it's only support WCF of Service Relay, and since you cannot change codes and config of your service, you might need some more works. Maybe you can create a small WCF on your local machine as a proxy, register it to Service Bus Relay, and pass all request/response to your local service.