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Port Mappings

Understand how to set up inbound NAT rules to route traffic to specific Azure VM instances using port mappings and explore outbound port mappings for controlling VM-initiated connections through Azure Load Balancers.

Handling specific inbound port mappings

Let’s say you have created a VM availability set with five VMs all running your website. Clients are connecting to the load balancer and the load balancer is distributing web traffic to the best backend pool instance.

The setup is working well, but you now need to perform some maintenance to the website. You need to use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to one of the VMs serving your website. As is, this is not possible. The load ...