Load Balancing (Standard Load Balancer)

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