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David Rendón
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David Rendón, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, is a highly regarded expert in the Azure cloud platform. With over 15 years of experience as an IT professional, he has been deeply committed to Microsoft technologies, especially Azure, since 2010. With a proven track record of leading and driving strategic success, David has over seven years of management experience, technical leadership, and collaboration skills. David delivers private technical training classes worldwide, covering EMEA, South America, and the US, and he is a frequent speaker at renowned IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure, and local user group gatherings in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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Connectivity in Azure

The fundamental building block of your network in Azure is Azure Virtual Networks or VNets, as we will refer to from now on. VNets allow organizations to build networks as if they were on-premises. Think of VNets as the primary component for availability and isolation purposes.

On top of VNets, you can configure and manage Virtual Private Networks or VPNs and connect with other VNets across the various regions available in Azure and extend your on-premises network. Similar to an on-premises network, each VNet has its own Classless Inter-Domain Routing or CIDR block, and they can be connected with other VNets as long as their CIDR blocks don’t overlap.

Similar to on-premises networks, TCP, UDP, and ICMP TCP/IP protocols are supported within VNets.

Now we will discuss how you can start designing your virtual networks in Azure.

Design considerations for VNets

Before creating a VNet, consider using address ranges enumerated in RFC 1918 to facilitate...

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David Rendón

David Rendón, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer, is a highly regarded expert in the Azure cloud platform. With over 15 years of experience as an IT professional, he has been deeply committed to Microsoft technologies, especially Azure, since 2010. With a proven track record of leading and driving strategic success, David has over seven years of management experience, technical leadership, and collaboration skills. David delivers private technical training classes worldwide, covering EMEA, South America, and the US, and he is a frequent speaker at renowned IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure, and local user group gatherings in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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