• Administrator overview
• Managing users and permissions
  • User roles and access permissions
  • Creating users
  • Editing users
  • Unlocking a user account
  • Resending a user activation link
  • Deleting or deactivating users
  • Using groups
  • Managing departments
  • Managing passwords and password policies
  • Setting account-wide access policies
  • Changing a resource owner
  • Using Single Sign-On (SSO)
    • Using Single Sign-on (SSO) with Azure Active Directory (AAD)
    • Configuring an ADFS claim rule for SSO
• Managing account-wide settings
  • Adding container registries
• Managing public IP addresses
• Managing WANs
  • Overview: VPNs
    • Creating a VPN
      • VPN configuration parameters
        • AWS VPC: VPN configuration example
        • Azure VPN: VPN configuration example
        • Cisco ASA: VPN configuration example
        • Cisco IOS: VPN configuration example
        • Juniper SRX: VPN configuration example
        • pfSense: VPN configuration example
        • strongSwan: VPN configuration example
  • Overview: Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connections
    • Creating a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection
    • Creating a customer-managed Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection
  • Testing the WAN
    • Troubleshooting VPN test failures
  • Connecting an environment network to a WAN
  • Configuring WAN access controls
  • Editing an existing WAN connection
  • Disable a WAN
• Managing Metered RAM and storage usage
  • How usage is calculated
  • Viewing current usage and enabling pay-as-you-go capacity
  • Reserved capacity for Skytap on Azure
  • Reserved capacity for Skytap on IBM Cloud
  • Setting usage limits
  • Setting up notifications
  • VM pinning
• Reporting overview
  • Viewing and exporting user information
  • Viewing and exporting group information
  • Generating department reports
  • Generating audit reports
    • Configuring the webhook service for audit data
  • Viewing usage data
    • Using labels for in-depth reporting
    • Creating usage label categories
    • Configuring the webhook service for usage data
  • Enabling other users to generate reports
• Security best practices
• Other best practices
• Sharing templates with users in other Skytap accounts
• Finding the source environment from a sharing portal URL
• Including your logo in the Skytap interface

Using a customer-managed ExpressRoute connection with Skytap on Azure

By default, Skytap on Azure includes one Skytap-provisioned ExpressRoute connection at no additional charge. You can also add a custom ExpressRoute circuit to use with a Skytap on Azure network that will be billed separately to your Azure account.

First, you’ll create and configure an ExpressRoute circuit in Azure, and then you’ll use the service key for that ExpressRoute circuit to create a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection.

Create an ExpressRoute circuit from the Azure portal

Follow the Microsoft Azure instructions to configure a new ExpressRoute circuit. Use the parameters provided below.

1. Create an ExpressRoute circuit.

2. On the Configuration tab of the Create ExpressRoute page, choose these parameters:

   Parameter	Required value
   Port type	Provider
   Create new or import from classic	Create new
   Provider	See Regions below
   Peering location	See Regions below
   Bandwidth	Up to 1 Gbps
   SKU	Standard or Premium

   Regions

   Choose the combination of Provider and Peering location that corresponds to your Skytap on Azure region.

   Provider	Peering location	Corresponding Skytap on Azure region
   SkytapInDC Prod	AustraliaEast SYD27 Skytap	AU-Sydney-M-1 (Australia)
   SkytapInDC Prod	EastAsia HKG20 Skytap	CN-HongKong-M-1 (Hong Kong)
   SkytapInDC Prod	NorthEurope DUB12 Skytap	IE-Dublin-M-1 (North Europe)
   SkytapInDC Prod	CentralIndia PNQ20 Skytap	IN-Pune-M-1
   SkytapInDC Prod	WestEurope AMS23 Skytap	NL-Amsterdam-M-1
   SkytapInDC Prod	AsiaSouthEast SIN22 Skytap	SG-Singapore-M-1 (Singapore)
   SkytapInDC Prod	UkSouth LON24 Skytap	UK-London-M-1
   SkytapInDC Prod	UkSouth LON23 Skytap	UK-London-M-2
   SkytapInDC Prod	SouthCentralUS SAT09 Skytap	US-Texas-M-1
   Skytap Prod	Washington DC	US-Virginia-M-1 (Ashburn, VA, USA)

   

3. Click .

   After a delay, the ExpressRoute circuit is created and deployed.

4. Click .

   The ExpressRoute circuit details display.

   

5. Copy or otherwise record the Service key value to use when you Create a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection.

Next step: Add your ExpressRoute circuit to a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection

To connect your ExpressRoute circuit to a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection, see Creating and editing a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection.

If you delete a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection that uses a customer-managed Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute circuit, the ExpressRoute circuit isn’t deleted, but only detached from the Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection. If you want to delete the ExpressRoute circuit, you must manually delete it from the Microsoft Azure interface.

Deleting a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection

Before you can delete a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection that uses Global Reach, you must first remove or disable any Global Reach circuits used by the Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection, otherwise deletion of the Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection is likely to fail.