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Krithika Vittal
Krithika Vittal

Reputation: 1477

Load Balancing virtual machines via Service Management API - MS Azure

I found the below article to create a virtual machine and load balance with an existing virtual machine.

https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/windows/common-tasks/how-to-load-balance-virtual-machines/?_sm_au_=iVVNR02FVsMFjVB3

But how can the same be done via Service Management API.

The related tags i found in the POST request to create a VM are ,

LoadBalancedEndpointSetName, LoadBalancerProbe

Where do I get started ? How do i connect two virtual machine via API ?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 784

Answers (1)

Neil Mackenzie
Neil Mackenzie

Reputation: 2847

The following is from a post on Virtual Machines by Michael Washam, however the idea is the same for teh Windows Azure SErvice management REST API:

A load balanced set is simply configuring the same endpoint on multiple VMs and setting another property called the “LoadBalancedEndpointSetName (or LBSetName in PowerShell) with a common name to group the endpoints together. This functionality is abstracted away within the Windows Azure management portal but it is good to go into in detail because from the command line you can have much more control over the load balancer by using custom health probes.

As Michael Washam points out you just need to use the same endpoint for the two Virtual Machines and provide the same LoadBalancedEndpointSetName to the Create Virtual Machine Deployment operation.

Upvotes: 1

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