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Adeboye Olubukola Moses
Adeboye Olubukola Moses

Reputation: 3

Azure VMs and load balancing

am new to windows azure. I recently set up a vm and host a website, according to the SLA i need to have 2 VMs in the availability set. Now i did set up the second VM.

My questions what do i need to use the second VM for?

if i setup load balancing does azure redirect user to the second VM? this second VM has nothing in it.

Please i will like to know this and is it possible to replicate the content of the first VM to the second one, so each time the first one is down the second VM can take over.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

Michał Smereczyński
Michał Smereczyński

Reputation: 329

At first, You must understand the statement of minimum two machines to get 99.95% SLA. It is not about "reserving" resources for use in case of fault or update (fault domain and update domain in availability set). Your application must be created as multi-tenant, so You need to run Your application on two servers, connected to the availability set. You can synchronize storage with GlusterFS (if You use Linux) or other distributed file system. You also can use Azure Files service (SMB as a service) to share storage. For sharing DB (in example MySQL) You need a cluster (independent or distributed through Your two machines). So... You must to start think in "cloud way" instead of typical one VM administration.

Upvotes: 1

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