Configuring an ILB

The following sets of exercises will guide you through the process of creating and configuring a load balancer from the Azure portal. You are going to learn to route internal traffic with a Basic load balancer to spread incoming requests among multiple VMs. For this demonstration, you are going to create a load balancer, backend servers, and network resources at the Basic pricing tier.

Creating the VNet

First, you will create a VNet, backend servers, and a test VM. The VNet is required for the VMs to have a network range space to join and for there to be IPs to route the traffic from the ILB to. Complete the following steps to deploy your VNet:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com.
2. Create a new resource group for this exercise, named AZ104-InternalLoadBalancer.
3. Create a new VNet with the following configurations, using the PowerShell code:
   • Name: LoadBalancerVNet
   • Region: A region of your choice (choose the same region...