Vanguard Retail plans to deploy a new critical business application in the Germany West Central region. The application will run on two virtual machines named vm-sales-prod1 and vm-sales-prod2. The deployment must satisfy the following requirements:
- Provide a virtual machine uptime SLA of 99.99%.
- Protect the application against datacenter-level outages within the region.
- Distribute incoming network traffic across both virtual machines.
Which of the following configuration options should you implement to meet these requirements? (Select two.)
- Deploy vm-sales-prod1 in Availability Zone 1 and vm-sales-prod2 in Availability Zone 2.Answer
- Configure a Standard SKU Azure Load Balancer to distribute traffic to the virtual machines.Answer
- CDeploy both virtual machines within a single Availability Set configured with three fault domains.
- DDeploy the virtual machines in Germany West Central and associate them with an Availability Set that spans multiple Availability Zones.
- EConfigure a Basic SKU Azure Load Balancer to distribute traffic to the virtual machines across the Availability Zones.
Answer
Deploy the virtual machines across different Availability Zones (such as Zone 1 and Zone 2) and distribute traffic using a Standard SKU Azure Load Balancer.
To achieve a 99.99% virtual machine uptime SLA and safeguard against datacenter-level failures, virtual machines must be distributed across different Availability Zones within the Germany West Central region. To load balance traffic across these zonal VMs, a Standard SKU Azure Load Balancer is required, as the Basic SKU does not support cross-zone backend pools.
Step-by-Step Solution
Key Concept
Azure Virtual Machine High Availability using Availability Zones and Standard Load Balancers