Deploy HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateways in Google Cloud Platform (Manual Mode)

HPE Aruba Networking Central supports deploying Virtual Gateways in Google Cloud Platform using the manual mode. For manually deployed Virtual Gateways, the IT administrators bring up and configure the Virtual Gateway instances in Google Cloud and monitor the deployed Virtual Gateways from HPE Aruba Networking Central.

Before You Begin

Before deploying HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateway in Google Cloud, ensure that you have the following resources and account privileges:

• Administrator credentials to access Google Cloud.
• HPE Aruba Networking Central account and valid subscription to deploy Virtual Gateways.
• Download the HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateway image .img.tar.gz from the HPE Networking Support Portal. For more information, contact your Sales Specialist.

Deployment Procedure

To deploy a Virtual Gateways in Google Cloud using the unmanaged mode, complete the following steps:

1. Generating User Data in HPE Aruba Networking Central
2. Uploading HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateway Images onto Google Cloud Storage
3. Creating Compute Engine Image using Cloud Shell
4. Creating a VPC Network for Virtual Gateway Instance on Google Cloud
5. Configuring Firewall in Google Cloud
6. Creating a VM Instance in Google Cloud
7. Connecting VM Instance to Serial Console in Google Cloud
8. Verifying the Deployment Status

You can use Google Deployment Manager template to automate the steps to manually deploy a virtual gateway instance in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the downloaded user data. For more information, see Using Google Deployment Manager Template to Automate Manually Deployed Virtual Gateway Instance.

Virtual Gateway Sizing

The HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Gateway requires the use of a supported GCP instance with a minimum of 500 Mbps of throughput and can support up to 512 IPsec Internet Protocol security. IPsec is a protocol suite for secure IP communications that authenticates and encrypts each IP packet in a communication session. tunnels. This table lists out the supported GCP instances for each Model/SKU Stock Keeping Unit. SKU refers to the product and service identification code for the products in the inventory.:

Model/SKU Name	Throughput	Supported GCP Instance	vCPU	Disk Size (GB)	Tunnels
VGW-500MB	500 Mbps	n2-standard-4	4	15	512
VGW-2GB	2 Gbps Gigabits per second.	n2-standard-8	8	30	4096
VGW-4GB	4 Gbps	n2-standard-16	16	60	8192