Hands-On Azure Labs: Building Redundant Cloud Solutions

Lab Overview

In this lab, you will deploy a second Windows Server 2019 VM called WEST02 to the same availability set used by WEST01. By adding multiple VMs to an availability set, you ensure redundancy, so that your West US application tier remains online even if one VM experiences downtime. This lab further prepares your infrastructure to handle increased load and maintain high availability.

Learning Objectives

By completing this lab, you will be able to:

• • Deploy a second Windows Server 2019 VM (WEST02) into the West US region.
  • Place WEST02 in the existing AvailSet-West, distributing workloads across multiple fault/update domains.
  • Configure NIC network security group rules for HTTP (port 80) traffic.
  • Register WEST02 with the LB-West backend pool for load-balanced operations.

Exam Relevance

These additional VM deployment and availability set skills relate to:

• • AZ-104 (Azure Administrator): Tests your proficiency in scaling out compute resources and load-balancing VMs.
  • AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect): Demonstrates your ability to design multi-VM, highly available architectures in Azure.