What is Azure Virtual Network Manager?
A centralized management tool to manage all of your Azure VNets and resources that they’re using, Virtual Network Manager makes creating, configuring, and monitoring virtual networks much easier with an intuitive interface packed with great features.
Features of Azure Virtual Network Manager
- Creation and Management of VNets: Create, configure virtual networks and subnets easily.
- Network peering: the ability to create more private, low-latency connections between VNets.
- Virtual Network Gateways: Provide secure connections between Azure VNets and on-premises networks or other cloud environments.
- VPN Connections: Creating a secure connection between an client, on-premises network and an Azure Virtual Network takes many forms but the three major categories can be broken down into VPN type pillars of site-to-site, point-to-site (sometimes referred to as client) and express route.
Benefits of Using Azure Virtual Network Manager
- Enhanced network security: Appropriately place workloads through features such as Network Security Groups to tightly control traffic flow, thus reducing the risk of unauthorized access and data exfiltration.
- Scalable and flexible: As the organization grows, you will require more infrastructure to run more apps. Azure Virtual Network Manager helps in scaling network infrastructure as needed to meet the growing needs of your applications.
- Better Performance: Better-performing routing and traffic management systems in Azure VNet generates increased network throughput, less latency Cost Optimization. Using Azure Virtual Network Manager to make optimal use of resources and networks, organizations can keep the cost related to network infrastructure at a minimum.
What is Azure Virtual Network Manager
If you think about it, in the big picture of cloud computing, network management is a critical functionality for proper operation and communication signaling across disparate nodes. Of course, Microsoft Azure offers you quite a bit more than just this and that is what we are going to explore shortly but again, the topic of Azure Virtual Network Manager would always be one of the basic tool for managing virtual networks. In this post, I will go through everything you should know about Azure Virtual Network Manager. Including what it is, the features and benefits, typical use cases and best practices to ensure that you use this tool in a manner that befits your workloads.