Azure forcing to create a Standard LB instead of Basic LB.

Question

Hi, I am following issue. Can anyone help?

Issue:
Azure forcing to create a Standard LB instead of Basic LB.
I created a VMSS with SinglePlacement Group = Enable (see attached doc).
However in the 2nd screen, while creating Basic Load Balancer, Azure does not allow me to add this VMSS to the backendpool and forces me to Create a STANDARD Load balancer and says “Single Placement Group is set to False” on the VMSS. While it is not true per the 1st screen. See Word Doc for screenshots.

Thanks
Venkat239662-loadbalancerissue1.pdf

Answer 1

Hi,

Can you re-crated the scale set as Virtual Machine Scale Set -> update ResourceGrup/Name/Region/ -> Disk -> Networking -> Scaling -> Management -> Health ->Advanced (Here uncheck "Allocation policy>Enable scaling beyond 100 instances) -> Tag -> Review and Create.

After re-creating by unchecking Enable Scaling beyound 100 instance, you should be able to add back end pool with Basic Load Balancer.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70854281/basic-load-balancer-with-scale-set-virtual-machine-scale-set-cannot-use-a-basic

Regards,
Karthik Srinivas

Answer 2

It works now. Thanks!
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73682084/azure-forcing-to-create-standard-lb-while-basic-lb-is-sufficient/73702355#73702355
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/943041/azure-basic-load-balancer-fails-to-add-a-vm-scale.html?childToView=1004228#comment-1004228