How to access Azure using Cloud Connect

1. Login to Azure portal
2. Click on Express Route circuits.
   
3. On the new window, click on Create. 
   

4. The fields required to fill in are:

• Resource group = select a group form the drop down
• Region: Select the region with your Azure resources that you want to connect to
• Name: provide a name for the Express Route circuit

And click Next: Configuration > at the bottom of the page

  5. On the Configuration tab, the fields required to be filled are:

• Port type: Select Provider
• Create new or import form classic: There are 2 options, Create new or import. Please select the one that suits your purposes.
• Provider: Select Megaport (Megaport is our partner for our Cloud Connect services)
• Perring location: Select the metro area that you would like to connect Azure.
• Bandwidth: select the bandwidth from the drop down
• SKU: there are two options, Standard and Premium
  • Standard: provides connectivity to all Azure regions in a geopolitical area
  • Premium: provides connectivity to all Azure regions globally
• Billing model: There are two options. Metered and Unmetered, select one that suits your purposes
• Allow classic operations: There are two options, Yes or No. Please select one that suits your purposes
  

Click Next: Tags if you would like to add tags or Review + create at the bottom of the page

  6. After validation, click Create at the bottom of the page
     

  7. The message “Your deployment is complete” appears, click the Go to resource button.
     

8. The service key will appear in this window.

Please, reply to our email providing the key and the IP prefix that you are using in Azure VPC(s).

1. Login to Azure portal
2. Click on Express Route circuits icon

  3. The new window will display your Express route circuits. Click on the one that you created for this connection.

  4. In the next window, you will see all details of the circuit, under Peerings click on Azure private peering, as this is the only peering that Leaseweb Cloud Connect supports

 5. The fields that need to be filled are:

• Customer ASN: please fill in the one that we provided
• Subnets: select IPv4
• IPv4 Primary subnet: please fill in the Microsoft IP addresses that we provided.
  • If you have ordered two connections for resiliency, please fill in the second IP subnet that we provided to IPv4 secondary subnet
• VLAN ID: please fill in the Leaseweb Private Network VLAN ID

Click Save at bottom of the page and confirm that the above actions have been performed by replying to our second email.

1. Go to the ExpressRoute circuit that you created for the connection and click on Connections

  2.  On the next window, the fields required to be filled are:

• Name: provide a name for the connection
• Connection type: Select ExpressRoute
• Virtual network gateway: select the gateway
• ExpressRoute circuit: Select the ExpressRoute circuit that you created for this connection

  3. Once you saved, under status you will see the message Succeeded.

The connection between ExpressRoute circuit and VNet is established,