Azure Resource Manager – Multiple VMs behind a load balancer

This post is part 4 of a small series and stems from this post https://marckean.com/2016/05/17/azure-resource-groups-networks/

This post focuses on creating a two virtual machines into the Internal subnet of the target example architecture diagram below. These VMs will utilise inbound NAT rules from the load balancer. Remember, that the subnet based NSG rule/s will also be applied as the NICs of both machines will live on the Internal subnet which has an NSG attached to it.

ShowNetwork

The PowerShell below, just simply edit / check the variables to suit before running it.


#Log into both old and new Azure
LoginAzureRmAccount
#Choose subscription 'new' Azure
$subscription = (Get-AzureRmSubscription | Out-GridView Title "Select the Azure subscription that you want to use …" PassThru).SubscriptionName
Select-AzureRmSubscription SubscriptionName $subscription
$RGName = "Show-Internal_VMs"
$location = "australiaeast"
####################### | Create the Resource Group | ####################### | @marckean
cls
Write-Host "`n`tCreating the target resource group $RGName (if it don't exist already)…" ForegroundColor Cyan
#region
if(!(Get-AzureRmResourceGroup Name $RGName Location $location ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)){
New-AzureRmResourceGroup Name $RGName Location $location Force}
####################### | Variable Settings | ####################### | @marckean
$date = "20160512"
$random = Get-Random Minimum 10 Maximum 999
$publisher = "MicrosoftWindowsServer"
$offer = "WindowsServer"
$sku = "2012-R2-Datacenter"
$version = "latest"
#Storage
$StorageAccountName = $date + "stg" + $random # Storage account name must be between 3 and 24 characters in length and use numbers and lower-case letters only
$StorageType = "Standard_LRS"
#Virtual Machine
$AVSetName = "AVSet"
$VMName = "Demo-VM"
$VMSize = "Standard_A2"
$cred = Get-Credential Message "Type the name and password for the local administrator account."
#Virtual Network
$vNetName = "Demo-vNet"
$vNetRGName = "Show-vNet"
$subnetName = "Internal"
#PIP
$PIPName = "Demo-PIP"
$PublicPIPName = "demopip" + $random # Name must conform to the following regular expression: ^[a-z][a-z0-9-]{1,61}[a-z0-9]$
#NIC
$NICName = "Demo-NIC"
#NLB
$ALBName = "Demo-ALB"
$beAddressPoolName = "Demo-BEAP"
$HealProbeName = "Demo-HP"
### Create Public IP Address
$pip = New-AzureRmPublicIpAddress ResourceGroupName $RGName Name $PIPName Location $location AllocationMethod Dynamic DomainNameLabel $PublicPIPName
### Frontend IP Configuration
$feIpConfig = New-AzureRmLoadBalancerFrontendIpConfig Name $RGName PublicIpAddress $pip
### Inbound NAT rules
$inboundNatRule1 = New-AzureRmLoadBalancerInboundNatRuleConfig Name "RDP1" `
FrontendIpConfiguration $feIpConfig `
Protocol TCP FrontendPort 3441 BackendPort 3389
$inboundNatRule2 = New-AzureRmLoadBalancerInboundNatRuleConfig Name "RDP2" `
FrontendIpConfiguration $feIpConfig `
Protocol TCP FrontendPort 3442 BackendPort 3389
### Backend Address Pool
$beAddressPool = New-AzureRmLoadBalancerBackendAddressPoolConfig Name $beAddressPoolName
$healthProbe = New-AzureRmLoadBalancerProbeConfig Name $HealProbeName `
RequestPath "HealthProbe.aspx" Protocol http Port 80 `
IntervalInSeconds 15 ProbeCount 2
### Load Balancer Rules
$lbrule = New-AzureRmLoadBalancerRuleConfig Name "HTTP" `
FrontendIpConfiguration $feIpConfig BackendAddressPool $beAddressPool `
Probe $healthProbe Protocol Tcp FrontendPort 80 BackendPort 80
### Create Azure Load Balancer
$alb = New-AzureRmLoadBalancer ResourceGroupName $RGName `
Name $ALBName Location $location FrontendIpConfiguration $feIpConfig `
InboundNatRule $inboundNatRule1,$inboundNatRule2 `
LoadBalancingRule $lbrule BackendAddressPool $beAddressPool `
Probe $healthProbe
### Create NICs
$subnet = Get-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig Name $subnetName VirtualNetwork $vnet
$nic1 = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface ResourceGroupName $RGName `
Name "$NICName-1" Subnet $subnet Location $location `
LoadBalancerInboundNatRule $alb.InboundNatRules[0] `
LoadBalancerBackendAddressPool $alb.BackendAddressPools[0]
$nic2 = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface ResourceGroupName $RGName `
Name "$NICName-2" Subnet $subnet Location $location `
LoadBalancerInboundNatRule $alb.InboundNatRules[1] `
LoadBalancerBackendAddressPool $alb.BackendAddressPools[0]
### Create Availability Set
New-AzureRmAvailabilitySet ResourceGroupName $RGName Name $AVSetName Location $location
$avset = Get-AzureRmAvailabilitySet ResourceGroupName $RGName Name $AVSetName
### Create Storage Account
New-AzureRmStorageAccount ResourceGroupName $RGName Name $StorageAccountName Location $location Type $StorageType
[array]$nics = @($nic1,$nic2)
For ($i=0; $i -le 1; $i++) {
$vmName2 = "$VMName-w$i"
$vmConfig = New-AzureRmVMConfig VMName $vmName2 VMSize "Standard_A1" `
AvailabilitySetId $avSet.Id |
Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem Windows ComputerName $vmName2 Credential $cred ProvisionVMAgent EnableAutoUpdate |
Set-AzureRmVMSourceImage PublisherName $publisher Offer $offer Skus $sku Version $version |
Set-AzureRmVMOSDisk Name $vmName2 VhdUri "https://$StorageAccountName.blob.core.windows.net/vhds/$RGName$Int-os-$i.vhd" `
Caching ReadWrite CreateOption fromImage |
Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface Id $nics[$i].Id
New-AzureRmVM ResourceGroupName $RGName Location $location VM $vmConfig
}

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