Hands-On Azure Labs: Building Redundant Cloud Solutions

Lab Overview

In this lab, you will repeat the same validation process for the LB-East configuration, confirming that EAST01 and EAST02 properly share incoming requests. You’ll ensure health probes are correctly identifying active VMs and that HTTP requests are routed to healthy instances. By completing these steps, you’ll confirm your East US environment is ready for integration with global traffic management solutions later in the course.

Learning Objectives

By completing this lab, you will be able to:

• • Send HTTP requests to the LB-East frontend IP or domain name.
  • Confirm load balancing across EAST01 and EAST02 under normal and failover scenarios.
  • Validate that health probes detect and exclude unresponsive VMs from the load balancing pool.
  • Troubleshoot potential issues and confirm readiness for multi-region traffic routing.

Exam Relevance

Verifying load balancing in East US pertains to:

• • AZ-104 (Azure Administrator): Demonstrates skills in configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Azure load balancers across different regions.
  • AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect): Emphasizes the importance of multi-region resilience and ensures you can validate distributed architectures for high availability.