hands-on lab
Load Balancing (Standard Load Balancer)
Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 2 hours and 47 minutes
Students: 177
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Description
Introduction
There may be times when you want to have a system that is highly available, one way to achieve this is to deploy multiple virtual machines and load balance them. This Lab starts with a single virtual machine that you will add to a Load Balancer and then you will add a second virtual machine., After adding the second virtual machine, you will test the connectivity to both.
In this Lab exercise, you will:
Start with a pre-existing virtual network, with a single virtual machine (TestVM1). Then, you will complete the below tasks.
- Provision a Standard Load Balancer
- Create a Backend Pool
- Create a Health Probe
- Create a Load Balance Rule
- Test access to the Load Balancer Public IP
- Create a new virtual machine from the portal
- Add the virtual machine into the existing Load Balancer
- Check access to both virtual machines with the load balancer public IP
Updates
May 18th, 2023 - Resolved PowerShell script issue
Covered topics
Lab steps
Logging in to the Microsoft Azure Portal
Create a Standard Load Balancer
Test the website access through the Load Balancer Public IP
Create a new VM and link to the Load Balancer