506 questions with Azure Load Balancer tags

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Upgrade classic Load balancer to standard

Is there a migration script to upgrade classic load balancer to standard? I have tried the automated migration script for Basic to Standard but that failed. I have previously migrated from Azure cloud Classic to Extended support.

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
506 questions
asked 2025-03-13T04:24:45.0233333+00:00
Kevin Wong 30 Reputation points
commented 2025-07-09T14:40:54.7366667+00:00
Vijayabaskar, Arthi 0 Reputation points
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Azure Public LB traffic flow

I am trying to understand this setup link How is internet traffic forwarded by the NVA to an application server VM in Azure? If a client outside of Azure initiates a connection to the public IP of an Azure Load Balancer, my understanding is that the…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-06-26T20:21:58.3266667+00:00
Peter Stieber 160 Reputation points
accepted 2025-06-26T21:49:57.7333333+00:00
Peter Stieber 160 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

What is the recommended load balancing strategy for Azure Container Apps handling image-based workflows with regional failover?

We are building an AI-powered solution hosted on Azure Container Apps, where each container endpoint handles image uploads of various sizes. These images are processed against local AI/ML models and also invoke Azure services like Document…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-06-11T07:32:47.0133333+00:00
Arun Siripuram 911 Reputation points
accepted 2025-06-23T07:39:57.8866667+00:00
Arun Siripuram 911 Reputation points
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Can I add VMs in Standard Availability Set to the backend pool of the Load Balancer in Basic SKU

I understand that Basic sku LBs and availability sets will be deprecated soon, and I'm aware about the upgrade process, but I need an answer if this is still possible to add VMs in Standard Availability Set to the Load balancer in basic SKU?

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-06-16T04:31:14.98+00:00
Filip 40 Reputation points
accepted 2025-06-19T15:11:55.2+00:00
Filip 40 Reputation points
2 answers

Best Load Balancer Option for Container Apps with Autoscaling

We have three Azure Container Apps, each hosting an API, and we need a load balancing and autoscaling solution to efficiently distribute traffic across them. We would like guidance on the best Azure service for our scenario. Specifically: Which Azure…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-03-26T11:34:35.26+00:00
Antonio Meireles 35 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-19T07:23:24.61+00:00
Arun Siripuram 911 Reputation points
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Azure Load Balancer Set traffic priority for VM1

We have two Windows VMs running in same region with private IPs. These VMs running a web application one front-end (Port 443) and another back-end (Port 8080) having multiple clients. We have configured Azure Load Balancer with public IP and configure…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-06-03T10:20:27.7633333+00:00
Syed Tahir | Hosting Controller 5 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-16T15:20:39.1266667+00:00
Ganesh Patapati 7,155 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Basic SKU load balancer migration backout plan

We are having Basic SKU load balancers in our client's environment, and we need to migrate them to Standard SKU due to the retirement of the Basic SKU on 30th September 2025. We are planning to migrate using the PowerShell script provided by Microsoft in…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-06-05T20:01:50.8866667+00:00
Chakraborty, Shubham 100 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-11T19:25:34.95+00:00
Praveen Bandaru 5,520 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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How can I Integrate Azure Firewall with Azure Standard Load Balancer for Enhanced Security and Traffic Visibility

Hi I have Azure Standard Load balancer deployed and I want to use Azure Firewall Infront of it as a security, please help me how to configure it and I want to see the traffic flow which are going to my backend VMs, if there is any configuration…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-05-22T04:56:10.01+00:00
MRao-1130 40 Reputation points
accepted 2025-05-27T23:45:23.11+00:00
MRao-1130 40 Reputation points
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Upgrade existing LCS / D365 machines to Standard Public IP SKUs

Hello, for the start: i do not work a lot with lifecycle services / Dynamics 365 so i apologize if something is unclear or not detailed enough. On Semptember 30, Basic IP SKUs will be deprecated. Occasionally i create Cloud-hosted environments in…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-05-13T09:16:54.2333333+00:00
Dvorak, David 70 Reputation points
accepted 2025-05-19T06:07:53.63+00:00
Dvorak, David 70 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Replacing public IP with hostname for sites which configured using load balancer

I currently have sites accessible via URLs like http://<Public-IP>/videos and http://<Public-IP>/images. After configuring a load balancer, I can access these sites using the load balancer's public IP address. Now, I want to replace the…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-05-14T04:00:31.98+00:00
Shyam Kumar 866 Reputation points
accepted 2025-05-15T03:20:01.4933333+00:00
Shyam Kumar 866 Reputation points
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Request always going to second server in load balancer

I have configured basic regional load balancer and it has 2 VMs backend pool but request always is going to second server even 2 machines are available. Please let me know how can I make request goes to both the servers and verify it?

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-05-11T11:22:33.5366667+00:00
Shyam Kumar 866 Reputation points
accepted 2025-05-14T03:53:25.1666667+00:00
Shyam Kumar 866 Reputation points
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How to put multiple VMs behind a single private IP address on Azure?

I'm working on creating a Blue/Green deployment for a product in Azure but I'm running into a problem regarding outbound traffic to an on-premisses database. Our initial idea can be seen in this diagram: We have three main "moving parts": A…

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Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
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asked 2024-04-17T12:53:27.5233333+00:00
Leonardo Tavares 20 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-03T06:33:31.6533333+00:00
Rex de Koning 0 Reputation points MVP
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Best Minimal Setup to Simulate Load Balancing in Test Environment

In our production environment, we have a load balancer in place distributing traffic across multiple backend servers, each serving distinct roles. In non-production, we currently have only one server per role (two servers total), each handling a…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-04-15T11:17:27.9366667+00:00
InfraSolutions 711 Reputation points
accepted 2025-04-16T11:13:13.8466667+00:00
InfraSolutions 711 Reputation points
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Basic SKU Load Balancer retirement

We are having multiple Basic SKU load balancer in our client environment, where there are VM's associated in the backend pool. While we are sharing the communications with the respective Application teams regarding the SKU migration from Basic to…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-04-14T04:33:34.6033333+00:00
Chakraborty, Shubham 100 Reputation points
answered 2025-04-14T06:34:50.3133333+00:00
G Sree Vidya 2,680 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Why do I see down time required message when I am just validating the Azure Basic LB & not performing the actual Az Basic LB upgrade?

Why do I see down time required message when I am just validating the Azure Basic LB & not performing the actual Az Basic LB upgrade? Does Basic SKU Azure LB validation require a down time? if Yes than WHY?

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-03-11T06:05:53.4666667+00:00
Sunil Kalekar 45 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
answered 2025-04-10T04:03:05.4833333+00:00
Sunil Kalekar 45 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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I have created Cross over region Load balancer

Hi, I have created two regional load balancers and a global load balancer. My question is: If one regional load balancer goes down, will the global load balancer redirect the traffic to the other regional load balancer? But, if the global load balancer…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
506 questions
asked 2025-03-17T14:41:30.86+00:00
HASSAN BIN NASIR DAR 391 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-02T13:11:10.6133333+00:00
Ganesh Patapati 7,155 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Updating Basic Public IP, Basic Load Balancer attached to Classic Cloud Service

We have the following in our Azure Subscription: 1 x Basic Public IP (Dynamic allocation) 1 x Basic Load Balancer (Public IP attached to) 1 x Classic Cloud Service Extended A deadline for both the Public IP and Load Balancer has been put in place…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
506 questions
asked 2025-02-21T09:17:09.2+00:00
Tom W 66 Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-25T12:37:38.8333333+00:00
Tom W 66 Reputation points
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Load balancer degraded health

Hi, I have a load balancer that has a degraded service alert since 3/12 at 7:45pm CST. It is causing my 2 connected sql servers to not connect via their cluster. What can be done to get this resolved?

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
506 questions
asked 2025-03-13T15:01:50.01+00:00
Stefan Keir 5 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-18T18:24:00.5933333+00:00
rvinnakota 4,760 Reputation points Moderator
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Metrics about Azure load balancer Standard

Hi Can you explain me what is the difference among All Directions, all Frontent IP and All fronteng Ports? It seems to me all sections have same type of data. For example Direction 80: It shows how much HTTP traffic is coming to the load…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-03-16T04:38:22.1933333+00:00
HASSAN BIN NASIR DAR 391 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-16T10:42:37.4266667+00:00
Abiola Akinbade 29,570 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
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Must the Gateway Load Balancer Frontend IP be in its own subnet?

hi! Recently our deployments with Azure Gateway Load Balancers stopped forwarding traffic back to their chained public load balancers. To solve the issue, we put the GWLB frontend IPs in dedicated subnets beside our NVAs. Is this necessary? Has anything…

Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer
An Azure service that delivers high availability and network performance to applications.
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asked 2025-03-11T22:42:18.5033333+00:00
Martin Bright 20 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-13T07:28:58.76+00:00
Sarthak Agarwal 76 Reputation points Microsoft Employee