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Create a load balancer - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure Administration Essential Training
Create a load balancer
- [Instructor] Earlier in this course, we discussed how if you have multiple virtual machines that host an application, you may want to spread the load of access to that application by using a device, a load balancing device, that would then equally, or based on parameters, spread connectivity to multiple virtual machines. Using a load balancer, you would avoid a single virtual machine from being overloaded with client demand, and therefore, provide a better service to your users. So let's go ahead and create a load balancer. If I go to Create a resource, select Networking, one of my available resources is a load balancer. I'm going to click on Load Balancer and once again, select my resource group and give my load balancer a name. I'm going to call this one LB5. Note that the name doesn't need to be globally unique. Then down below, I can specify the appropriate SKU for my load balancer. There are three options, Standard,…