Trying to migrate to windows Azure. Seeing the price of azure i want to start and stop my VM based on the load of the request i receive. My question is: the load balance have the capability to do so or it just distribute the traffic base on rule. If not what can i do?
azure load balance work based on round robin distribution so my server will never have 0 request how can i stop them if i see low traffic? and how i do it after it finish request? I'm currently think of using runbook but i'm not sure is the best way
Azure Load balancer load balances based on hash and the load balancing is not equal. Also, using Load balancer to Stop/Start VM is not the ideal way to do it. You can use the metrics of VM such as CPU utilization, Bandwidth utilization to Start/Stop the VM.