Connect-Lab

SYNOPSIS

Connect two labs via VPN

SYNTAX

Lab2Lab (Default)

Connect-Lab [-SourceLab] <String> [-DestinationLab] <String> [-NetworkAdapterName <String>]
 [<CommonParameters>]

Site2Site

Connect-Lab [-SourceLab] <String> [-DestinationIpAddress] <String> [-PreSharedKey] <String>
 [[-AddressSpace] <String[]>] [-NetworkAdapterName <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

This cmdlet allows you to connect two labs through a persistent IPSEC VPN connection. Currently connections from Hyper-V labs to Azure labs, connections from Hyper-V labs to any VPN Gateway and connections of two Azure labs are possible.

To make use of this cmdlet, your on-premises lab needs to contain a router, i.e. a machine with the Routing role and one external NIC.

EXAMPLES

On-Prem to Azure

Connect-Lab -SourceLab MyOnPremisesLab -DestinationLab MyAzureLab

This connects the two existing labs, MyOnPremisesLab - a Hyper-V lab with at least one router - and MyAzureLab, which is any Azure based lab.

On Azure, the resources Virtual Network Gateway, Local Network Gateway, Public IP Address and Virtual Network Connection will be created. On Hyper-V, S2SVPN will be enabled on the router.

On-Prem to somewhere

Connect-Lab -SourceLab MyOnPremLab -DestinationIpAddress myvpngateway.mycompany.com -PreSharedKey VeryS3cureKey -AddressSpace @("192.168.30.0/24", "192.168.60.0/24", "192.168.90.0/24")

This command connects the Hyper-V lab MyOnPremLab to a VPN gateway listening on myvpngateway.mycompany.com. Requests to one of the address spaces "192.168.30.0/24", "192.168.60.0/24" and "192.168.90.0/24" will be routed through the VPN connection

PARAMETERS

-AddressSpace

One or more address spaces to be routed in case you are connecting to an external VPN gateway and not to another lab. Example: 192.168.2.30/24

Type: String[]
Parameter Sets: Site2Site
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: 3
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-DestinationIpAddress

S2S VPN: The IP address of the remote VPN gateway

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Site2Site
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-DestinationLab

The destination lab name

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Lab2Lab
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-NetworkAdapterName

Optionally specify the adapter to use

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-PreSharedKey

The pre-shared key for the S2S VPN

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Site2Site
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 2
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-SourceLab

The source lab name

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: True
Position: 0
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

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