Depending on your business, it is important to manage your traffic and share the load between your servers. Auto-scaling is what you need to implement in your Cloud/On-Premise environment because auto-scaling will be used in case of traffic fluctuations on your infrastructure. It means that new machines would be added in order to increase capacity and availability because there is more hardware to share the load. Based on this case, I will explain how to create and configure Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, which will help you to manage your traffic in Azure.
What are Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)?
VMSS is a great way to deploy and manage a set of identical Virtual Machines in your Azure subscription. I mean that you can deploy three Virtual Machines, which are identical instead of creating three individual Virtual Machines. Many pros can be noticed:
- Starting and stopping Virtual Machines is very easy
- Easily auto-scaling the number of instances in your VMSS to increase the availability
- Reducing the number of instances to save money
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