Deploy HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateways in AWS

Virtual Gateways simplify branch network deployments for organizations intending to migrate their infrastructure to cloud providers such as Amazon.

HPE Aruba Networking supports instantiating Virtual Gateways on Amazon Web Services Web services allow businesses to share and process data programmatically. Developers who want to provide integrated applications can use the API to programmatically perform actions that would otherwise require manual operation of the user interface. (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtualized environment. Network administrators can deploy an AWS EC2 instance with enhanced networking option that uses single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)-enabled Ethernet Ethernet is a network protocol for data transmission over LAN. Network Interface Card (NIC Network Interface Card. NIC is a hardware component that allows a device to connect to the network. ).

The AWS EC2 instance is created from OS images in Amazon Machine Image (AMI) format. The HPE Aruba Networking Wireless Operating System 10 (AOS-10) VMC image is used for creating and registering the Virtual Gateway AMI. To obtain the AMI for Virtual Gateway, contact your HPE Aruba Networking sales representative.

HPE Aruba Networking Central supports deploying and managing Virtual Gateways hosted on the Amazon AWS VPCs using one of the following methods.

• Orchestrated mode—In the orchestrated mode, HPE Aruba Networking Central enables administrators to deploy Virtual Gateways using the orchestrator application in HPE Aruba Networking Central. The Virtual Gateway orchestrator in HPE Aruba Networking Central imports VPCs from an AWS account, deploys, connects, and enables you to manage Virtual Gateways from HPE Aruba Networking Central. For step-by-step instructions on deploying Virtual Gateways in the orchestrated mode, see Deploying Virtual Gateways in AWS (Orchestrated Mode).
• Manual mode—In the manual mode, Virtual Gateways must be manually deployed and launched from the cloud provider console. HPE Aruba Networking Central enables you to generate user data for such deployments and manage Virtual Gateways from HPE Aruba Networking Central. For step-by-step instructions on deploying Virtual Gateway in manual mode, see Deploy HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateways in AWS.

Virtual Gateway Sizing

The HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateway requires the use of a supported AWS instance with a minimum of 500 Mbps of throughput and can support up to 1600 IPSec tunnels. This table lists out the supported AWS instances for each HPE Aruba Networking Model/SKU Stock Keeping Unit. SKU refers to the product and service identification code for the products in the inventory.:

HPE Aruba Networking Central Model/SKU Name	Throughput	Supported AWS Instances	vCPU	Disk Size (GB)	Tunnels
VGW-500MB	500 Mbps	c5.xlarge, c5d	4	15	512
		c5.2xlarge, c5d	8	30
		c5.4xlarge, c5d	16	60
VGW-2GB	2 Gbps Gigabits per second.	c5.2xlarge, c5d	8	30	4096
		c5.4xlarge, c5d	16	60
VGW-4GB	4 Gbps	c5.4xlarge, c5d	16	60	8192

Deployment Procedure

See the following topics for step-by-step instructions on how to deploy an HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateway in AWS VPC:

• Deploying Virtual Gateways in AWS (Orchestrated Mode)
• Deploy HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateways in AWS

Additional References

For a detailed description of SD-WAN Software-Defined Wide Area Network. SD-WAN is an application for applying SDN technology to WAN connections that connect enterprise networks across disparate geographical locations. integration with AWS and Virtual Gateway deployment in AWS, see the HPE Aruba Networking SD-WAN Integration with Public Cloud (AWS) Technical Note.