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Olalekan Oladiran
Olalekan Oladiran

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EASIEST WAY TO CREATE VIRTUAL MACHINE SCALE SET WITH AZURE PORTAL

Introduction

Apps can be executed on a group of virtual machines (VMs) in a scalable manner with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. When deployed, the virtual machines (VMs) inside a scale set may have identical settings and execute identical applications, or they may have distinct configurations and execute distinct applications.

Steps in creating Virtual machine scale set

  • Log into your Azure portal
  • Click on create a resource
  • Search for virtual machine scale set in the market place
  • Select create
  • Fill in the the project details which include subscription and resource group
  • Fill the scale set details
  • Leave the orchestration, instance details and scaling sections as default
  • Supply the username and password in the administrator account section.
  • Select networking bar
  • Leave the virtual network configuration and network interface as default
  • Change load balancing option to Azure load balancer
  • Click create a load balancer
  • Choose a name for your load balancer and click create
  • Select the health bar and tick Enable application health monitoring
  • Leave other bars as default and click create + review to validate
  • Once validation passed, click create
  • Wait for it to deploy
  • Click on Go to resource after deployment is complete.
  • Click instances to see your created scale sets, 2 instances were created by default
  • Select scaling to choose the preferred method of scaling i.e Autoscaling or Manual scaling  .

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