Azure Scale Set in the Azure Compute resource type that you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. Those all VMs configured the same, and VMSS are designed to support true auto-scale without pre provisioning VMs. Because of that we can use VMSS to build large scale services targeting big computer,big data and containerized workloads.
Following is the example of using scale set for tiered workloads
We can deploy scale set using azure portal (New), PowerShell & ARM templates. VMSS are only available in ARM method. In this I’ll show how to do it through the Azure portal.
- Create a scale set using azure portal (with 2 instances)
- Create jumpbox VM to access the VMs in the scale set
- RDP to the VM allocated to the scale set
Create Azure Scale Set
Navigate to Azure VM Scale Set as follows. If you didn’t bookmark the service you can browse it from the service list or search for scale set.
Click Add and give VMSS name and relevant parameters and click OK.
Configure auto scale and configure scale set properties.
Select the VM size for scale set & enable Auto Scale parameters.
Check the relevant parameters and configurations are valid
Accept the terms and purchase the service.
Create Jumpbox VM to access the VMSS
In this step create windows server VM and add it to the same network in VMSS or different subnet in the virtual network.
Following is the screenshot of the running VMSS.
Now I log in to my jumpbox server and access the VMSS instances
Started Azure jumpbox VM
RDP to jumpbox
Now from jumpbox VM I going to RDP to the VMSS instence, before that we have to get the internal IP address of those instances.
OK folks now we got the internal IP for the instences so lets RDP to those VM using those IP.
As you see bellow its the VM that created by scale set
Find more
Virtual Machine Scale Sets Overview
Create a Windows Virtual Machine Scale Set using Azure PowerShell
Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Scale Sets (Chanel 9)