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AZ_sri2044
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2021

Deploy 2 windows servers with VMSS

Hello All,

Need some guide to 

Deploy 2 windows servers with VMSS 

- static hostnames app001 ,app002 , 

- DNS 

- join domain 

 

regards

Rama

 

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  • Seshadrr's avatar
    Seshadrr
    Iron Contributor
    Why use of VMSS

    1) Easy to create and manage multiple VMs
    2) Provides high availability and application resiliency
    3) Allows your application to automatically scale as resource demand changes

    Pre-requisite

    1)Prepare load balancer
    2) Prepare Virtual Network Subnet of app server to reside
    2.a) VNET DNS server update with On-premise or Azure DNS server search order
    2.b) Extend the Network with On-Premise either VPN (S2S) or Express route
    3) NSG rule either Network interface or Subnet
    4) Additional layer of security such as Azure Firewall, DDoS protection
    2) Prepare VM Scale set
    Name of SS
    Region to reside VM
    Av Zone on residing datacenter
    Image (Own or Marketplace)
    3) Disk Managed for OS and data disk
    4) Instance count
    5) Scaling Policy such as Minimum, maximum number of instances, Scale-Out/In for CPU threshold
    6) Custom storage account for diagnostics Lgs
    7) Any health application monitoring such as HTTP, HTTPS

    Following the ARM template will help you to automate the VMSS provision

    https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2F201-vmss-windows-webapp-dsc-autoscale%2Fazuredeploy.json
    • lukemurraynz's avatar
      lukemurraynz
      Learn Expert
      Agree and use something like this to join the computers to the domain:
      https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/201-vm-domain-join-existing

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