Virtual Machines Scale Set
Virtual Machines Scale Set - Orchestrator for pool of VMs One of the major benefits of cloud computing is elasticity and scalability to adapt varying workloads by dynamic resource allocation or deallocation. Now consider a situation where we have to host an N tier application in Azure Virtual Machines. For simplicity let’s consider a 3 tier web application having web tier, business tier and database. Now we have a specific set of virtual machines for web tier and business tier hosted behind an Azure load balancer or Application gateway. Now everything works fine till application receives more requests than it can withstand during certain peak business hours or specific days. To cope with such scenario application should scale horizontally or vertically. Either of the ways we have to either manually provision more virtual machines of identical configuration and set up or scal...