Creating a Microsoft Azure load balancer

Last Updated : Jun 10, 2026 |

About this task

In a cluster deployment, a load balancer distributes incoming traffic between Avaya Aura® Device Services nodes. In Microsoft Azure cluster deployments, you must create and configure an internal Microsoft Azure load balancer.

Before you begin

  • Deploy all required nodes for your Avaya Aura® Device Services cluster.

  • On each node, add information about the Avaya Aura® Device Services front-end FQDN to the /etc/hosts file in the following format:

    <Node_IP_Address> <Front-end_FQDN>

  • Ensure that you configured security rules as described in Configuring security groups.

  • Log in to the Avaya Aura® Device Services CLI as an administrator and run the following commands to ensure that the HTTP services are running:

    cdto misc
./us-http-port.sh --enable

Procedure

  1. On the Microsoft Azure administration portal, navigate to Networking > Load Balancers.
  2. Click Add.

    Microsoft Azure displays the Create Load Balancer page.

  3. In Name, type a name of your choice for the load balancer.
  4. In Region, select an appropriate region for your load balancer.
  5. In Resource group, click Create new and create a new resource group for the load balancer.
  6. In Type, select Internal.
  7. In SKU, select Standard.
  8. In Virtual Network, select an appropriate network.
  9. In Availability Zone, select Zone-redundant.
  10. Click Review and Create.
  11. Click Create.

    Microsoft Azure creates a new load balancer and displays it in the list of load balancers.

Next Steps

Configure the load balancer settings.