This service allows users to deploy a set of identical virtual machines. Virtual machines can auto-scale by defining rules for resources like CPU, Memory, Network Traffic etc. Also, there is an Azure Load balancer which distributes traffic to the Virtual Machine instances in the scale set.
Deploy your first VM scale set
| BASICS | |
| Setting | Value |
| Virtual machine scale set name | Demoscaleset |
| Operating system disk image | Windows Server 2016 |
| Subscription | Subscription Name |
| Resource Group | DemoRGscaleset |
| Location | West Europe |
| Username | azureuser |
| Password | P@ssw0rd |
| Confirm password | P@ssw0rd |
| INSTANCES AND LOAD BALANCER | |
| Instance count | 2 |
| Instance size | DS1_v2 |
| Use managed disks | NO / YES |
| Public IP address name | ScalesetPublicIP |
| AUTOSCALE | |
| Autoscale | Enabled |
Operating System Disk Images to choose for VM scale set
After deployment, you can check the Virtual Machine scale set, Overview blade.
Connect to VM scale set
Enter Azure Load balancer blade, select SETTINGS – Inbound NAT rules (by default are created rules for RDP access).
To connect to your VM open Remote Desktop Connection, Start – Run and type MSTSC.
How can i test to see if the VM – Scale Set works ?
Test VM Scale set deployment
You can do that by following the next steps :
- Download a Tool to simulate CPU / Memory / Disk Load
- Run it on the server and just wait auto-scale procedure to begin based on the rules you added to the first deployment.
