Interactive lab simulation

  • 25 minutes

Lab scenario

Your organization has three datacenters connected with a mesh wide-area network. As the Azure Administrator, you need to implement the on-premises infrastructure in Azure.

  • There are two offices, New York and Boston, in one region.
  • There's one office, Seattle, in another region.
  • All the offices need to be networked together so they can share information.
  • This simulation focuses on the connectivity of the offices, and not creating the individual Azure resources.

Architecture diagram

Architecture diagram as explained in the text.

Objectives

Note

You may find slight differences between the interactive simulation and the Azure environment, but the core concepts and ideas being demonstrated are the same.

  • Task 1: Create the infrastructure environment. In this task, you deploy three virtual machines. Virtual machines are deployed in different regions and virtual networks.
    • Use a template to create the virtual networks and virtual machines in the different regions. You can review the lab templates.
    • Use Azure PowerShell to deploy the template.
  • Task 2: Configure local and global virtual network peering.
    • Create a local virtual network peering between the two virtual networks in the same region.
    • Create a global virtual network peering between virtual networks in different regions.
  • Task 3: Test intersite connectivity between virtual machines on the three virtual networks.
    • Test the virtual machine connections in the same region.
    • Test the virtual machine connections in different regions.

Note

select the thumbnail image to start the lab simulation. When you're done, be sure to return to this page so you can continue learning.

Screenshot of the simulation page.