VPN Gateway Active Standby public IP address

Question

We have standalone VPN gateway in place.
We want to set it up in Active-Standby mode.
We want to understand that for Active Standby how many public IP addresses would be needed or if the same public IP address would be used when the failover will happen.
We want to use the same existing public IP address that is in use using the standalone VPN gateway. Is it possible?

Answer 1

@Kapil Chaturvedi

Azure VPN is automatically in Active-Standby mode. Every Azure VPN gateway consists of two instances in an active-standby configuration. By default, VPN Gateway allocates a single IP address from the GatewaySubnet range for active-standby VPN gateways, or two IP addresses for active-active VPN gateways. For any planned maintenance or unplanned disruption that happens to the active instance, the standby instance would take over (failover) automatically, and resume the S2S VPN or VNet-to-VNet connections. However You can have only 1 tunnel when using a PolicyBased VPN.

So you do not have to do anything explicitly for Active-Standby setup if you have a Route Based VPN setup. However, if you want to setup Active-Active VPN, please refer this document for more details- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-highlyavailable#highly-available-cross-premises-connectivity

Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any further questions/concerns. Thank you!

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