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Direct peering walkthrough

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In this article, you learn how to set up and manage a Direct peering.

Create a Direct peering

Diagram showing Direct peering workflow and connection states.

The following steps must be followed to provision a Direct peering:

  1. Review Microsoft peering policy to understand requirements for Direct peering.
  2. Follow the instructions in Create or modify a Direct peering to submit a peering request.
  3. After you submit a peering request, Microsoft will contact using your registered email address to provide LOA (Letter Of Authorization) or for other information.
  4. Once peering request is approved, connection state changes to ProvisioningStarted.
  5. You need to:
    1. complete wiring according to the LOA
    2. (optionally) perform link test using 169.254.0.0/16
    3. configure BGP session and then notify Microsoft.
  6. Microsoft provisions BGP session with DENY ALL policy and validate end-to-end.
  7. If successful, you receive a notification that peering connection state is Active.
  8. Traffic will then be allowed through the new peering.

Note

Connection states are different from standard BGP session states.

Convert a legacy Direct peering to Azure resource

The following steps must be followed to convert a legacy Direct peering to Azure resource:

  1. Follow the instructions in Convert a legacy Direct peering to Azure resource
  2. After you submit the conversion request, Microsoft will review the request and contact you if necessary.
  3. Once approved, you see your Direct peering with a connection state as Active.

Deprovision Direct peering

Contact Microsoft peering team to deprovision a Direct peering.

When a Direct peering is set for deprovision, you see the connection state as PendingRemove.

Note

If you run PowerShell cmdlet to delete the Direct peering when the ConnectionState is ProvisioningStarted or ProvisioningCompleted, the operation will fail.

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