SonicOS 8 NSv Getting Started Guide for Azure

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Forwarding Traffic to Your NSv

This section describes how to configure a route on your SonicWall NSv Series virtual machine so that you can pass traffic though the NSv.

If you have not yet registered your NSv on MySonicWall, do that now. See Registering the NSv Virtual Machine in SonicOS for more information. Your NSv must be registered to enable full functionality.

To configure a route on your NSv virtual machine

  1. If not already logged into the Azure portal, navigate to https://portal.azure.com/ and log in to your Azure account.

  2. In the Azure left navigation pane, click All services.

  3. In the Filter services field, type Route. The display changes to show only services with “Route” in their names.

  4. Click Route tables.

  5. On the Route tables page, click +Create to create a new route table.

    The Create route table dialog displays.

  1. For Subscription, select the subscription you are using in Azure.

  2. For Resource group, select Create new if you are using the route table for other networks, or select Use existing if you are using the route table for this network only. If you select Use existing, you can use the drop-down menu to select the same resource group you are using for your NSv.

  3. The Region field should already display the same location you selected for your NSv.

  4. In the Name field, type in a name for this route table.

  5. For Propagate gateway routes, accept the default of Yes.

  6. Click Review + create to verify the terms of the route table creation.

  7. Click Create to create the route table. After a brief wait, Notifications displays Deployment succeeded and the new route table appears in the Route tables screen.

  8. Click the route table name you just created.

  9. In the route table screen, under SETTINGS, click Routes.

  10. On the Routes screen, click +Add to add a route to the route table.

  11. In the Add route screen, for Route name, type in a descriptive name such as default_route.

  12. For Destination Type, select IP Addresses from the drop-down menu.

  13. For Destination IP addresses/CIDR ranges, type in 0.0.0.0/0 to elect all traffic to be forwarded to the NSv.

  14. For Next hop type, select virtual machine from the drop-down menu.

  15. For Next hop address, type in the IP address of the NSv X0 interface.

  16. Click Add. This creates the route.

  17. Next, you need to associate the route table. In the Route table settings, click Subnets.

  18. In the Subnets screen, click + Associate.

  19. In the Associate subnet screen, click Virtual network. The resources with possible virtual networks are displayed in the drop-down menu.

  20. Click the desired Subnet resource. The drop-down menu shows the possible subnets available for that resource.

  21. Under Subnet, click LAN-X0. Because we entered the X0 IP address previously for Next hop address, the X0 subnet must be selected here.

  22. Click OK. Azure performs the association and the LAN-X0 subnet appears on the screen.

    This completes the configuration required for forwarding traffic through the NSv. Continue to Testing Traffic Through Your NSv.

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