Hands-On Azure Labs: Building Redundant Cloud Solutions

Lab Overview

In this lab, you will deploy a Windows Server 2019 virtual machine (VM) named WEST01 in the West US region and place it in a newly created availability set. This approach ensures high availability and fault tolerance by distributing your workloads across multiple fault and update domains. Once deployed, WEST01 will become one of the backend servers in your load-balanced environment for the West US region.

Learning Objectives

By completing this lab, you will be able to:

• • Create a Windows Server 2019 VM using the RG-Lab resource group and the West US region.
  • Configure a new availability set to host WEST01 and future VMs, enhancing uptime and resilience.
  • Set up NIC network security group rules to allow HTTP (port 80) traffic to WEST01.
  • Integrate WEST01 into the LB-West backend pool for load balancing and high availability.

Exam Relevance

These VM deployment and availability set skills help prepare you for:

• • AZ-104 (Azure Administrator): Demonstrates your ability to provision, secure, and manage Azure compute resources.
  • AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect): Reinforces your understanding of designing high-availability solutions, including the use of availability sets and load balancers.