A network layout in which workloads live in spoke VNets peered to a central hub VNet, and the hub hosts shared services like the gateway and firewall.
Also called hub-spoke.
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Terms in this definition
- Virtual hub
Inside a Virtual WAN, a VNet managed by Microsoft that contains the hub router plus the VPN, ExpressRoute and User VPN gateways. Typically there is one per region, but several hubs can share a region.
- VNet
A private network belonging to a single subscription and region and covering all of that region's availability zones. A VM can only use a VNet located in the same region.
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