Hi everyone,
I couldnt find a category specific to load balancing so Im trying this one. We are still new to Azure and we have limited time to evaluate this.
We have a software which allow us to have a "cold VM". I was wondering if someone could help me confirm the following information. Our SLA is over 99% so we are evaluating any possibilities.
We would like to use Azure load balancer to create a Internal backend pool that will point on a https web service. One of the three servers will be running, but the application service won't be running (the cold one). All Vms running Windows 2012 R2, the software require VM.
My questions are :
- Will the health probe be enough to monitor and make sure there is no traffic route to the cold one ?
- Should we create additionnal backend pool and switch it upon failure of one of the production node ?
- Is there a downtime if we swap the backend pool ? If there is any outage, this approach is simply a no go.
Regards,