1. Traffic Manager figures as published in the following MSDN topics: Traffic Manager Overview About Traffic Manager Load Balancing Methods and the Azure.com topic: Load Balancing for Azure Infrastructure Services

2. www.contoso.com IN CNAME contoso.trafficmanager.net DNS Select endpoint Traffic Manager Overview Figure 1: How Traffic Manager works

3. www.contoso.com IN CNAME contoso.trafficmanager.net DNS Deploy endpoints Decide on the load balancing method Decide on the monitoring configuration Decide on a DNS name for your Traffic Manager profile Create your Traffic Manager profile Test your Traffic Manager profile Point your company domain name to your Traffic Manager profile Traffic Manager Overview Figure 2: How to deploy Traffic Manager

4. Traffic Manager Overview Figure 3: Nested profile example Traffic Manager Profile Nested Traffic Manager Profile Endpoints

5. Traffic Manager Overview Figure 4: Multi-tier nested profile example

6. DNS Check the ordered endpoints CS-A Primary CS-B Standby 1 CS-C Standby 2 CS-D Standby 3 About Traffic Manager Load Balancing Methods Figure 1: Failover method Offline EndpointsStatus 1. CS-AOffline 2. CS-BOnline 3. CS-COnline 4. CS-DOnline

7. DNS Select CS-B (random) CS-ACS-B CS-C CS-D Endpoints CS-A CS-B CS-C CS-D About Traffic Manager Load Balancing Methods Figure 2: Round Robin method

8. DNS Select CS-C (random, based on weight) CS-ACS-B CS-C CS-D EndpointsWeights CS-A2 CS-B2 CS-C5 CS-D1 About Traffic Manager Load Balancing Methods Figure 3: Weighted round robin

9. About Traffic Manager Load Balancing Methods Figure 4: Performance method DNS Look up latency times CS-ACS-B CS-C CS-D IP rangeUS WestUS EastWest EuropeEast Asia …………… 131.107.0.0/16230 ms180 ms6 ms25 ms …………… Cloud service Datacenter CS-AEast Asia CS-BWest Europe CS-CUS East CS-DUS West Maintain Internet Latency Table 131.107.89.14 Local DNS server

10. About Traffic Manager Load Balancing Methods Figure 4: Performance method DNS Look up latency times CS-ACS-B CS-C CS-D IP rangeUS WestUS EastWest EuropeEast Asia …………… 131.107.0.0/16230 ms180 ms6 ms25 ms …………… Cloud service Datacenter CS-AEast Asia CS-BWest Europe CS-CUS East CS-DUS West Maintain Internet Latency Table 131.107.89.14 Local DNS server

11. Load Balancing for Azure Infrastructure Services 4-step Traffic Manager figure DNS

12. Traffic Manager resources Traffic Manager topic on azure.microsoft.com http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/traffic-manager/ Main Traffic Manager topic on MSDN http://aka.ms/matm Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set