configure-vm-availability

• implement availability sets and availability zones

• implement update and fault domains

• implement azure vm scale sets

• autoscale vm

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Availability sets

An availability set is a logical feature you can use to ensure a group of related virtual machines are deployed together.

• All VMs in availability sets should

  • perform the identical set of functionalities

  • have the same software installed

• vm can only be added to an availability set when the vm is created. To change the availability set for a vm you need to delete and recreate the vm

Azure Vm availability sets implements two node concepts to help azure maintain high availability and fault tolerance when deploying and upgrading applications: update domains(update multiple services at once) and fault domains(group of nodes that represent a physical unit of failure). Each VM in an availability set is placed in one update domain and one fault domain

Availability zone in an azure region is a combination of fault domain and an update domain.

You can use availability zones to build high-availability into your application architecture by colocating your compute, storage, networking, and data resources within a zone and replicating in other zones.

ZRS replicate your applications and data across availability zones to protect aganist single point of failures.

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Vertical and Horizontal Scaling

things to consider when using vertical and horizontal scaling

• consider limitations

• consider flexibility

• consider reprovisioning - process of removing an existing vm and replacing it with a new maachine.

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Azure virtual machine scale sets are an azure compute resource that you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical virtual machines.

When you implement virtual machine scale sets and configure all your virtual machines in the same way, you gain true autoscaling