IPSec Site-to-Site VPN Settings Supported by Edge Gateway (vCloud Director v 9.7)

This table lists the IPSec S2S VPN tunnel parameters for vCloud Director version 9.7. Parameters that are hard-wired in the Edge properties and cannot be changed are marked in red.

Name Default Value Recommended Value Options Description
Enabled  off    

Turn on / off the tunnel

Enabled perfect forward secrecy (PFS) off on   Generation of a new key for the 2nd phase of IKE. With PFS enabled, the DH group will be the same as in the 1st phase.
Name        Tunnel name
Local Id      

Edge Gateway ID. As a rule - its external IP address

Local Endpoint       Edge external IP address from which to connect  
Local Subnets      

List of LANs in the cloud accessible through the tunnel

Peer Id      

ID of the remote router. As a rule - its external IP address

Peer Endpoint       The external IP address of the remote router from which you are connecting
Peer Subnets       List of remote networks accessible through the tunnel
Encryption Algorithm AES(AES128) AES256 AES(AES128), AES256,AES-CGM, 3DES Encryption algorithms. 3DES is deprecated and is not recommended
Authentication PSK PSK PSK, Certificate How to authenticate parties when raising a tunnel
Diffie-Hellman Group DH5 DH14 DH2, DH5, DH14, DH15, DH16 Encryption Public Key Size
Digest Algorithm SHA1 SHA-256 SHA1, SHA-256 Package Integrity Control Hash Algorithm
IKE Option IKEv1 IKEv2 IKEv1, IKEv2, IKEFlex Key Exchange Protocol Version *
IKE Responder only Off  Off    When turned on, Edge will not initiate a connection, but will wait for a connection from a remote side. **
Session Type Policy based Policy based Policy based, Route based Tunnel type***
IKE Phase 1 Mode Main Main Main 1st phase IKE mode. Immutable parameter.
IKE Phase 1 Lifetime 28800 28800 28800 Key change time of the 1st phase of IKE. Immutable parameter
IKE Phase 2 Tunnel Mode ESP ESP ESP Tunnel mode 2nd phase IKE. Immutable parameter
IKE Phase 2 Lifetime 3600 3600 3600 Key change time of the 2-nd phase of IKE. Immutable parameter

 

 

* - IKEFlex - non-standard version of the protocol that is not supported by most network devices

** - Configuration can be useful when the remote endpoint of the tunnel does not have direct Internet access and there is no way to correctly configure NAT

 *** - Route Based Type allows assigning your own IP address to the tunnel. This option is supported by a number of network devices, such as Juniper SRX, and allows implementing various fault tolerance schemes using dynamic routing.

 

 

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