Compute Services Flashcards
What is a highly configurable server, in which virtualization lets you run a server without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs it?
Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
What is Virtual Network (VNet)?
The network where your VM will reside.
What is the program that manages all other programs on a computer?
The Operating System.
What are Azure Scale Sets?
Azure Scale Sets allows you to automatically increase or decrease your VM capacity.
What is a Load Balancer?
A Load Balancer can be associated with a Scale Set. It will evenly distribute your VMs across multiple Availability Zones to make your application Highly Available. Use Load Balancer probe checks for more robust Health checks.
What is an HTTP/HTTPS web traffic load balancer with URL-based routing, SSL termination, session persistence, and web application firewall?
Application Gateway
What determines when VMs should be added or removed to meet current capacity requirements?
A Scaling Policy
What is Scale In?
When an instance should be removed to the Scale Set to decrease capacity.
What is Update Policy?
It determines how VM instances are brought up-to-date with the latest scale set model.
What can be enabled to determine if your server is healthy or unhealthy?
Health monitoring
What is Automatic repair policy?
Occurs if an instance is found to be unhealthy the delete it and launch a new instance.
A desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud provided by Microsoft Azure.
Azure Virtual Desktop.
