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High availability deployment of AX in Azure through LCS

We are currently planning to deploy a High Availability environment for 25 and could scale up to 300 users in this environment

The High availability environment in Azure, does this mean it is a mirroring environment or it contains both load balancer & mirroring environment.

For e.g.: If I have a max peak user of 25 users, LCS Suggests 4 AOS Server VMs. Does this indicate 2 Load Balanced AOS Instances with Mirroring?
In future if I want to upgrade the number of users, how can we scale the existing environment, Can we do this easily via LCS or do we need to deploy a different environment once again, transfer the DB Back up etc.,
If I want to scale up the AOS Server, how do I add an additional availability set for the AOS Server? Let’s say for example, in our current set up, system suggests to create 4 VMs for the AOS Servers. For the 300 user peak capacity, the suggestion is to create 6 VMs for the AOS Server, so how to achieve this at a later stage during the Project life cycle

Regards

Yadhav

I will try to answer it in easy way for you:

1. The High availability environment : It means, required resources can anytime be increased or decreased depending upon the need. i.e., if you are deploying your Azure environment with 32GB ram, and want to increase it in future, it can be done with just a click.

currently, there is no separate load balancer available.

You might be aware that AOS is now a Network service(previous versions were Windows services) running on IIS and controlled from deployed VM(On Azure).

Also, as its on Azure, its billing goes as per use and resource utilization.(Pay as you go).

2.In future if I want to upgrade the number of users : Production environments are now fully controlled by Microsoft, so you have to raise a ticket from LCS in order to scale up your resources.

For non-production environments, you can edit the deployments from LCS.

Again, your billing will get increased as per the resource utilization on Azure VM's.

3.If I want to scale up the AOS Server: Answer is same as in previous point.

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