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What is the best way to manage and save costs while using multiple virtual machines in Azure?

  • I am very new to virtual computing. I have multiple vm's that interact with my MySQL database. The problem is that these virtual machines run program's in certain interval and are then inactive for a long time. I would like to know how to configure it so that I don't pay for the time when the machine is inactive. I don't want to shut it down as the IP address will change when I restart it and it is required to access the MySQL database. Any suggestion or help is appreciated.

  • Answer:

    As per windows Azure, you have to shut down the servers if you are not using it and again when you spin out a new instance you will get a new IP for it. But i'm wondering why you are not using Loadbalancer in this Scenario, if so you can bring up and stop an instance as an when you want and expose only the Load Balancer with an public IP and all the VMs that you mentioned will only have the private IPs that will be connected to the Load Balancer. Hope this helps

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