Load Balancer documentation

Learn how to use Azure Load Balancer. Quickstarts, tutorials, samples, and more, show you how to deploy a load balancer and load balance traffic to and from virtual machines and cloud resources, and in cross-premises virtual networks.

About Load Balancer

Overview

• What is Load Balancer?
• What's new in Azure Load Balancer?
• Load Balancer algorithm
• Load Balancer components
• Azure Updates - Load Balancer news
• Load Balancer SKUs
• Load Balancer Pricing
• Upgrade guidance from basic to standard Load Balancer

Training

• Introduction to Azure Load Balancer
• Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer

Deploy

• Set up load balancing

Get started

Quickstart

• Create a public load balancer to load balance VMs
• Create a internal load balancer to load balance VMs

Tutorial

• Load balance VMs across availability zones with a Standard Load Balancer
• Configure port forwarding in Azure Load Balancer

Manage features and options

Concept

• Load Balancer health probes
• Outbound connections in Azure
• Multiple Frontends for Azure Load Balancer

How-To Guide

• Create an Internet facing load balancer with IPv6 (PowerShell)
• Configure the distribution mode
• Upgrade from Basic to Standard

Deploy

Concept

• Standard Load Balancer and Availability Zones
• Load Balancer with TCP Reset on Idle

How-To Guide

• Create a Load Balancer with zone-redundant frontend
• Create a Load Balancer with zonal frontend
• Load balancing on multiple IP configurations

Troubleshoot

Concept

• Standard Load Balancer diagnostics with metrics, alerts and resource health
• Troubleshoot Azure Load Balancer
• Common Azure Load Balancer errors
• Resolve common outbound connection issues
• Health Probe status issues
• Backend pool (VM) traffic

video

• Build & monitor highly available apps with Azure Load Balancer

Reference

Reference

• Azure PowerShell
• Azure CLI
• ARM templates
• Frequently asked Load Balancer questions

Learn about Load Balancer architecture

Concept

• Load-balancing options
• Networking on Azure and AWS
• Windows N-tier application on Azure
• Oracle database migration to Azure