{"id":14428,"date":"2020-07-31T04:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T04:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=14428"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:55:20","slug":"quickstart-creating-a-virtual-machine-scale-set","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/quickstart-creating-a-virtual-machine-scale-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickstart : Creating a virtual machine scale set"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This tutorial will provide you insights to Creating a virtual machine scale set. A virtual machine scale set allows you to deploy and manage a set of auto-scaling virtual machines. You can scale the number of VMs in the scale set manually, or define rules to autoscale based on resource usage like CPU, memory demand, or network traffic. An Azure load balancer then distributes traffic to the VM instances in the scale set. In this quickstart, you create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the given steps &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, Log in to the Azure portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"create-a-load-balancer\"><strong>Creating a load balancer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Azure&nbsp;load balancer&nbsp;distributes incoming traffic among healthy virtual machine instances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, create a public Standard Load Balancer by using the portal. The name and public IP address you create are automatically configured as the load balancer&#8217;s front end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In the search box, type&nbsp;<strong>load balancer<\/strong>. Under&nbsp;<strong>Marketplace<\/strong>&nbsp;in the search results, pick&nbsp;<strong>Load balancer<\/strong>.<\/li><li>In the&nbsp;<strong>Basics<\/strong>&nbsp;tab of the&nbsp;<strong>Create load balancer<\/strong>&nbsp;page, enter or select the following information:TABLE 1SettingValueSubscriptionSelect your subscription.Resource groupSelect&nbsp;<strong>Create new<\/strong>&nbsp;and type&nbsp;<em>myVMSSResourceGroup<\/em>&nbsp;in the text box.Name<em>myLoadBalancer<\/em>RegionSelect&nbsp;<strong>East US<\/strong>.TypeSelect&nbsp;<strong>Public<\/strong>.SKUSelect&nbsp;<strong>Standard<\/strong>.Public IP addressSelect&nbsp;<strong>Create new<\/strong>.Public IP address name<em>myPip<\/em>AssignmentStaticAvailability zoneSelect&nbsp;<strong>Zone-redundant<\/strong>.<\/li><li>When you are done, select&nbsp;<strong>Review + create<\/strong><\/li><li>After it passes validation, select&nbsp;<strong>Create<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"807\" height=\"1035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/load-balancer.png\" alt=\"Quickstart : Creating a virtual machine scale set \" class=\"wp-image-14429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/load-balancer.png 807w, https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/load-balancer-312x400.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><figcaption>Image source &#8211; Microsoft <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"create-virtual-machine-scale-set\"><strong>Creating virtual machine scale set<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can deploy a scale set with a Windows Server image or Linux image such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or SLES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Type&nbsp;<strong>Scale set<\/strong>&nbsp;in the search box. In the results, under&nbsp;<strong>Marketplace<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Virtual machine scale sets<\/strong>. Select&nbsp;<strong>Create<\/strong>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<strong>Virtual machine scale sets<\/strong>&nbsp;page, which will open the&nbsp;<strong>Create a virtual machine scale set<\/strong>&nbsp;page.<\/li><li>In the&nbsp;<strong>Basics<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, under&nbsp;<strong>Project details<\/strong>, make sure the correct subscription is selected and then choose to&nbsp;<strong>Create new<\/strong>&nbsp;resource group. Type&nbsp;<em>myVMSSResourceGroup<\/em>&nbsp;for the name and then select&nbsp;<strong>OK<\/strong>&nbsp;.<\/li><li>Type&nbsp;<em>myScaleSet<\/em>&nbsp;as the name for your scale set.<\/li><li>In&nbsp;<strong>Region<\/strong>, select a region that is close to your area.<\/li><li>Leave the default value of&nbsp;<strong>ScaleSet VMs<\/strong>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<strong>Orchestration mode<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Select a marketplace image for&nbsp;<strong>Image<\/strong>. In this example, we have chosen&nbsp;<em>Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS<\/em>.<\/li><li>Enter your desired username, and select which authentication type you prefer.<ul><li>A&nbsp;<strong>Password<\/strong>&nbsp;must be at least 12 characters long and meet three out of the four following complexity requirements: one lower case character, one upper case character, one number, and one special character. For more information, see&nbsp;username and password requirements.<\/li><li>If you select a Linux OS disk image, you can instead choose&nbsp;<strong>SSH public key<\/strong>. Only provide your public key, such as&nbsp;<em>~\/.ssh\/id_rsa.pub<\/em>. You can use the Azure Cloud Shell from the portal to&nbsp;create and use SSH keys.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"1005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quick-create-scaleset.png\" alt=\"Quickstart : Creating a virtual machine scale set \" class=\"wp-image-14430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quick-create-scaleset.png 836w, https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/quick-create-scaleset-333x400.png 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><figcaption>Image Source &#8211; Microsoft<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Further steps<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Select&nbsp;<strong>Next<\/strong>&nbsp;to move the the other pages.<\/li><li>Leave the defaults for the&nbsp;<strong>Instance<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Disks<\/strong>&nbsp;pages.<\/li><li>On the&nbsp;<strong>Networking<\/strong>&nbsp;page, under&nbsp;<strong>Load balancing<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Yes<\/strong>&nbsp;to put the scale set instances behind a load balancer.<\/li><li>In&nbsp;<strong>Load balancing options<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Azure load balancer<\/strong>.<\/li><li>In&nbsp;<strong>Select a load balancer<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<em>myLoadBalancer<\/em>&nbsp;that you created earlier.<\/li><li>For&nbsp;<strong>Select a backend pool<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Create new<\/strong>, type&nbsp;<em>myBackendPool<\/em>, then select&nbsp;<strong>Create<\/strong>.<\/li><li>When you are done, select&nbsp;<strong>Review + create<\/strong>.<\/li><li>After it passes validation, select&nbsp;<strong>Create<\/strong>&nbsp;to deploy the scale set.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When no longer needed, delete the resource group, scale set, and all related resources. To do so, select the resource group for the scale set and then select&nbsp;<strong>Delete<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/microsoft-azure-architect-technologies-az-303-free-practice-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-design-5.png\" alt=\"free practice test for AZ- 303\" class=\"wp-image-13928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-design-5.png 960w, https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Untitled-design-5-750x117.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/exam-az-303-microsoft-azure-architect-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Go back to home page <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Reference documentation &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machine-scale-sets\/quick-create-portal\">Quickstart: Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will provide you insights to Creating a virtual machine scale set. 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