Assigning multiple IPs to Windows VM in Azure
There are times when VM in Azure needs to have more than one IP address. It can be just secondary IP for specific service running on VM, or IP-address of load balancer that is attached to. There are couple of (well documented) ways this can be configured on Azure end, and several ways to configure OS end. When multiple IP addresses configured in Azure, the primary can be assigned via DHCP, however, that's a challenging task part to assign 2nd and subsequent IPs to VM. Here I am exploring the new way that can be simple enough and effective at the same time. Azure configuration. Nothing new here, just repeating what is already was described a lot of times. On Azure end, there are 2 ways to get this done: assign 2nd (and all the subsequent, up to 200) IP address as a secondary IP use Attach Load Balancer to VM, and enable Floating IP (otherwise Load Balancer will use NIC IP, instead of LB IP) This is important to understand that this if IP is not configured on Azure level, it does no...