Overview
Aruba virtual gateways are deployed in public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services virtual private cloud (AWS VPC). These gateways serve as a virtual instance of a headend gateway, and enable seamless and secure connectivity for all branch and data center locations connecting to public clouds. Virtual gateways support public Internet and private connections such as Direct Connect. Aruba SD-WAN greatly enhances the use of public clouds by making it easy to connect to virtual private cloud instances. This optimizes the networking of the hosted workloads by providing complete lifecycle management and orchestration of connectivity policies.
Highlights
- Easily connect branch and data center locations to public clouds
- Public cloud environment simply becomes another node in the SD-WAN infrastructure
- Deploy higher scale and higher performance SD-WAN nodes in public clouds
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Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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The Aruba Virtual Gateway (or vGW) CloudFormation Template or CFT will make it easier to deploy a Virtual Gateway in an AWS VPC and make it fully operational. The CFT currently supports three types of EC2 instances for 500 Mbps, 2Gbps and 4Gbps throughputs. The vGW will have to be brought up using an adequately sized EC2 instance matching the subscription; The 500Mbps vGW requires a c4.xlarge, 2 Gbps requires a c4.2xlarge, and a 4 Gbps requires a c4.4xlarge instance. Based on the selected instance, the CFT creates a volume of 15GB, 30GB or 60GB to match the instance size. The CFT prompts the cloud user to input information such as Availability Zone, VPC subnet information, SSH key, Security Group, name and User Data. User Data needs to be fetched from Aruba Central by referring to the link shown.
- The Aruba vGW needs four network interfaces. The CFT creates four interfaces and subnets accordingly; Management, Public (INET), VPN and LAN network.
- The Aruba vGW has to be mapped to a public IP address. The CFT therefore requests an Elastic IP and associates it to the INET interface
- The CFT creates a Security Group and adds a rule to permit inbound UDP port 4500 (to allow for IPSEC tunnels termination from rest of the SD-WAN).
- The vGW VM comes up with 4 interfaces and volumes described above mapped with the User Data file obtained from Aruba Central.
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