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Can someone explain to me what a Gateway Control Ring is in Azure. When I look up documentation about Azure SQL Databases, Managed Instances I see this referenced in figures, but a extensive search on the internet does not explain what that is.
Thanks a lot in advance
@Marc Mertens Thank you for posting your question your question on Microsoft Q&A.
Could you please take a screen shot where you saw this on docs?
Regards,
Oury
Here is the link to the article, it is the first figure in the article
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/high-availability-sla?view=azuresql&tabs=azure-powershell
The dp-300 azure course contains some figures containg this Gateway Control Link (Slide deck 7, slides 11 and 14 if it helps)
Regards
Marc
Hi @Marc Mertens Sorry for the delay in response to your question. A Gateway Ip address sends traffic to one or more control rings. A control ring is nothing but a collection of VMs whose purpose is to process the login traffic sent to Gateway.
Regards,
Oury
Hi @Marc Mertens Please let me know if the answer was helpful.
Regards,
Oury
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Hi Oury,
Thank you for your answer, it is indeed helpfull
Regards
Marc Mertens
Thank you @Marc Mertens I am glad it was helpful and apologies again for the late reply. I wanted to make sure i have the right answer for you. Please do not forget to mark as accept answer. That will be beneficial for other community members with the same question.
Regards,
Oury