To create an Azure Trafic Manager profile, you must select a unique DNS name for your profile.All Azure Traffic Manager profiles use the shared domain *.trafficmanager.net. Therefore, your DNS name must be unique because it will form the Azure Traffic Manager domain name that you will use when updating your DNS records. As an example, a DNS name for Contoso might be contoso-web-tm.trafficmanager.net.Related to the DNS name setting is the DNS time-to-live (TTL), which tells DNS clients and resolvers on DNS servers how long to cache the name resolved by Azure Traffic Manager. The default value for this setting is five minutes.
You must select a load balancing method. The load balancing options are as follows:
■ Performance Choose this option when your website is deployed in different regions and you want users to be routed to the closest data center you have deployed to.
■ Round Robin Choose this option when your website is deployed in the same or different regions and you want to distribute the load across multiple deployments.
■ Failover Choose this option when your website is deployed in the same or different regions and you want one deployment to be the primary for all traffic and the others to be available as backup if the primary becomes unavailable. If you have more than two deployments, then you can prioritize the order of the deployments that you want Traffic Manager to failover with.
You must select a load balancing method. The load balancing options are as follows:
■ Performance Choose this option when your website is deployed in different regions and you want users to be routed to the closest data center you have deployed to.
■ Round Robin Choose this option when your website is deployed in the same or different regions and you want to distribute the load across multiple deployments.
■ Failover Choose this option when your website is deployed in the same or different regions and you want one deployment to be the primary for all traffic and the others to be available as backup if the primary becomes unavailable. If you have more than two deployments, then you can prioritize the order of the deployments that you want Traffic Manager to failover with.
