Deploying Virtual Intelligent Sandbox in Load balancing mode using Azure Load balancer

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Once you load balance your Virtual Intelligent Sandbox using the private IP address of the Primary, Backup and, Secondary nodes with the cluster, you can pick an available cluster IP address from your subnet.

  1. Log on to the Azure Portal (https://portal.azure.com).

  2. Click New. In the Search, the marketplace field, type 'load balancer'. Locate Load Balancer from the returned list.

  3. Click Load Balancer, then click Create then do the following:

    1. In Name, type a name for the Load Balancer.

    2. Under Type, select Public.

    3. Select Public IP address, then create a new public IP address.

      This is the IP address through which you would communicate with the Intelligent Sandbox cluster.

    4. Select the appropriate subscription.

    5. In Resource Group, select Use existing. Type the resource group where you deployed your Intelligent Sandbox VMs.

    6. In Location, select the location where you deployed your Intelligent Sandbox VMs.

    7. Click Create.

  4. Once the load balancer is deployed, select the load balancer that you have created.

  5. On the right pane, select Backend pools, then do the following:

    1. Click Add.

    2. In Name, type a name for the backend pool.

    3. In Associated to, select Availability set.

    4. In Availability set, the availability set that you created for your VMs.

    5. Click Add a target network IP configuration.

    6. Under Target virtual machine, select your VM.

    7. Under Network IP configuration, select the network IP address configuration for the VM that you selected in the previous set.

      Do this for all VMs that you would want in the load balancing mode.

    8. Click OK.

  6. Select the load balancer, then click Health probes, then do the following:

    1. Click Add.

    2. In Name, type a name for the health probe.

    3. Under Protocol, select TCP.

    4. In Port, type 7986.

      Leave the default values for Interval and Unhealthy threshold.

    5. Click OK.

  7. Select the load balancer, then click Load balancing rules, then create three rules using the following values:

    Rule

    Values

    Rule 1

    Name: 443rule

    IP Version: IPv4

    Frontend IP address: Choose your Frontend IP address.

    Protocol: TCP

    Port: 443

    Backend port: 443

    Backend pool: Choose the Backend pool that you created.

    Health probe: Choose the Health probe that you created.

    Session persistence: Client IP and protocol.

    Idle timeout (minutes): 15

    Floating IP address (direct server return): Disabled

    Rule 2

    Name: 80rule

    IP Version: IPv4

    Frontend IP address: Choose your Frontend IP address.

    Protocol: TCP

    Port: 80

    Backend port: 80

    Backend pool: Choose the Backend pool that you created.

    Health probe: Choose the Health probe that you created.

    Session persistence: None

    Idle timeout (minutes): 4

    Floating IP address (direct server return): Disabled

    Rule 3

    Name: 2222rule

    IP Version: IPv4

    Frontend IP address: Choose your Frontend IP address.

    Protocol: TCP

    Port: 2222

    Backend port: 2222

    Backend pool: Choose the Backend pool that you created.

    Health probe: Choose the Health probe that you created.

    Session persistence: None

    Idle timeout (minutes): 4

    Floating IP address (direct server return): Disabled

Your load balancer is ready. Now you can use the public IP address of the load balancer to submit samples.