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Tutorial:Load balance internet traffic to VMs - Azure portal | Microsoft Docs
This tutorial shows how to create and manage a Standard Load Balancer by using the Azure portal.
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Tutorial: Load balance internet traffic to VMs using the Azure portal

Load balancing provides a higher level of availability and scale by spreading incoming requests across multiple virtual machines. In this tutorial, you learn about the different components of the Azure Standard Load Balancer that distribute internet traffic to VMs and provide high availability. You learn how to:

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  • Create an Azure load balancer
  • Create virtual machines and install IIS server
  • Create load balancer resources
  • View a load balancer in action
  • Add and remove VMs from a load balancer

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Sign in to the Azure portal

Sign in to the Azure portal at http://portal.azure.com.

Create a Standard Load Balancer

In this section, you create a public load balancer that helps load balance virtual machines. Standard Load Balancer only supports a Standard Public IP address. When you create a Standard Load Balancer, you must also create a new Standard Public IP address that is configured as the frontend (named as LoadBalancerFrontend by default) for the Standard Load Balancer.

  1. On the top left-hand side of the screen, click Create a resource > Networking > Load Balancer.

  2. In the Create load balancer page, enter or select the following information, accept the defaults for the remaining settings, and then select Create:

    Setting Value
    Name myLoadBalancer
    Type Public
    SKU Standard
    Public IP address Select Create new and type myPublicIP in the text box. The Standard SKU for the Public IP address is selected by default. For Availability zone, select Zone-redundant.
    Subscription Select your subscription.
    Resource group Select Create new, and then type myResourceGroupSLB.
    Location Select West Europe.

Create a load balancer

Create backend servers

In this section, you create a virtual network, create three virtual machines for the backend pool of your load balancer, and then install IIS on the virtual machines to help test the load balancer.

Create a virtual network

  1. On the top left-hand side of the Azure portal, select Create a resource > Networking > Virtual network and then enter these values for the virtual network:

    Setting Value
    Name Enter myVNet.
    Subscription Select your subscription.
    Resource group Select Use existing and then select myResourceGroupSLB.
    Subnet name Enter myBackendSubnet.

  2. Click Create to create the virtual network.

Create virtual machines

  1. On the top left-hand side of the Azure portal, select Create a resource > Compute > Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and enter these values for the virtual machine:
    1. For the name of the virtual machine, enter myVM1.
    2. For Resource group, select Use existing, and then select myResourceGroupSLB.
  2. Click OK.
  3. Select DS1_V2 for the size of the virtual machine, and click Select.
  4. Enter these values for the VM settings:
    1. Ensure that myVNet is selected as the virtual network, and myBackendSubnet is selected as the subnet.
    2. For Public IP address, in the Create Public IP address pane, select Standard, and then select OK.
    3. For Network Security Group, select Advanced, and then do the following:
      1. Select *Network security group (firewall), and the Choose network security group page, select Create new.
      2. In the Choose network security group page, for Name, enter myNetworkSecurityGroup as the name of the new network security group, and then select OK.
  5. Click Disabled to disable boot diagnostics.
  6. Click OK, review the settings on the summary page, and then click Create.
  7. Create two more VMs, named, VM2 and VM3 with myVnet as its virtual network, myBackendSubnet as its subnet, and myNetworkSecurityGroup as its network security group using steps 1-6.

Create network security group rule

In this section, you create a NSG rule to allow inbound connections using HTTP.

  1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then from the resources list click myNetworkSecurityGroup that is located in the myResourceGroupSLB resource group.
  2. Under Settings, click Inbound security rules, and then click Add.
  3. Enter these values for the inbound security rule named myHTTPRule to allow for an inbound HTTP connections using port 80:
    • Service Tag - for Source.
    • Internet - for Source service tag
    • 80 - for Destination port ranges
    • TCP - for Protocol
    • Allow - for Action
    • 100 for Priority
    • myHTTPRule for name
    • Allow HTTP - for description
  4. Select Add.

Install IIS on VMs

  1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then from the resources list click myVM1 that is located in the myResourceGroupSLB resource group.

  2. On the Overview page, click Connect to RDP into the VM.

  3. In the Connect to virtual machine pop-up window, select Download RDP File, and then Open the downloaded RDP file.

  4. In the Remote Desktop Connection window, click Connect.

  5. Log into the VM with the credentials that you provided during the creation of this VM. This launches a remote desktop session with virtual machine - myVM1.

  6. On the server desktop, navigate to Windows Administrative Tools>Windows PowerShell.

  7. In the PowerShell Window, run the following commands to install the IIS server, remove the default iisstart.htm file, and then add a new iisstart.htm file that displays the name of the VM:

     
 # install IIS server role
 Install-WindowsFeature -name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools
 
 # remove default htm file
  remove-item  C:\inetpub\wwwroot\iisstart.htm
 
 # Add a new htm file that displays server name
  Add-Content -Path "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\iisstart.htm" -Value $("Hello World from " + $env:computername)

  8. Close the RDP session with myVM1.

  9. Repeat steps 1 to 6 to install IIS and the updated iisstart.htm file on myVM2 and myVM3.

Create load balancer resources

In this section, you configure load balancer settings for a backend address pool, a health probe, and specify a balancer rule.

Create a backend address pool

To distribute traffic to the VMs, a backend address pool contains the IP addresses of the virtual (NICs) connected to the load balancer. Create the backend address pool myBackendPool to include VM1 and VM2.

  1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then click myLoadBalancer from the resources list.
  2. Under Settings, click Backend pools, then click Add.
  3. On the Add a backend pool page, do the following:
    • For name, type myBackendPool, as the name for your backend pool.
    • For Virtual network, select myVNet.
    • Add myVM1, myVM2, and my VM3 under Virtual Machine along with their corresponding IP addresses, and then select Add.
  4. Check to make sure your load balancer backend pool setting displays all the VMs myVM1, myVM2, and myVM3, and then click OK.

Create a health probe

To allow the load balancer to monitor the status of your app, you use a health probe. The health probe dynamically adds or removes VMs from the load balancer rotation based on their response to health checks. Create a health probe myHealthProbe to monitor the health of the VMs.

  1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then click myLoadBalancer from the resources list.

  2. Under Settings, click Health probes, then click Add.

  3. Use these values to create the health probe:

    • myHealthProbe - for the name of the health probe.
    • HTTP - for the protocol type.
    • 80 - for the port number.
    • 15 - for number of Interval in seconds between probe attempts.
    • 2 - for number of Unhealthy threshold or consecutive probe failures that must occur before a VM is considered unhealthy.

  4. Click OK.

    Adding a probe

Create a load balancer rule

A load balancer rule is used to define how traffic is distributed to the VMs. You define the frontend IP configuration for the incoming traffic and the backend IP pool to receive the traffic, along with the required source and destination port. Create a load balancer rule myLoadBalancerRuleWeb for listening to port 80 in the frontend FrontendLoadBalancer and sending load-balanced network traffic to the backend address pool myBackEndPool also using port 80.

  1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then click myLoadBalancer from the resources list.
  2. Under Settings, click Load balancing rules, then click Add.
  3. Use these values to configure the load balancing rule:
    • myHTTPRule - for the name of the load balancing rule.
    • TCP - for the protocol type.
    • 80 - for the port number.
    • 80 - for the backend port.
    • myBackendPool - for the name of the backend pool.
    • myHealthProbe - for the name of the health probe.
  4. Click OK.

Test the load balancer

  1. Find the public IP address for the Load Balancer on the Overview screen. Click All resources and then click myPublicIP.

  2. Copy the public IP address, and then paste it into the address bar of your browser. The default page of IIS Web server is displayed on the browser.

    IIS Web server

To see the load balancer distribute traffic across the three VMs running your app, you can force-refresh your web browser.

Remove or add VMs from the backend pool

You may need to perform maintenance on the VMs running your app, such as installing OS updates. To deal with increased traffic to your app, you may need to add additional VMs. This section shows you how to remove or add a VM from the load balancer.

  1. Click All resources in the left-hand menu, and then click myLoadBalancer from the resources list.
  2. Under Settings, click Backend pools, then within the backend pool's list, click myBackendPool.
  3. On the myBackendPool page, under Target network IP configurations, to remove VM1 from the backend click the delete icon next to Virtual machine:myVM1

With myVM1 no longer in the backend address pool, you can perform any maintenance tasks on myVM1, such as installing software updates. In the absence of VM1*, the load is now balanced across myVM2 and myVM3.

To add myVM1 back to the backend pool, follow the procedure in the Add VMs to the backend pool section of this article.

Clean up resources

When they are no longer needed, delete the resource group, load balancer, and all related resources. To do so, select the resource group that contains the load balancer and click Delete.

Next steps

In this tutorial, you created a Standard Load Balancer, attached VMs to it, configured the load balancer traffic rule, health probe, and then tested the load balancer. You also removed a VM from the load-balanced set, and added the VM back to the backend address pool. To learn more about Azure Load Balancer, continue to the tutorials for Azure Load Balancer.

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