I am stretching my on-premise datacenter into the Azure Cloud. I already have my site-to-site VPN created after following the steps at http://clusteringformeremortals.com/2014/01/03/how-to-create-a-site-to-site-vpn-tunnel-to-the-windows-azure-cloud-using-a-window-server-2012-r2-routing-and-remote-access-rras-server/
I want to now provision a DC and a few SQL Server cluster nodes in the Azure Cloud. Of course they will all reside in the same Virtual Network that I already created, but I'm not sure whether they should all be in the same "Cloud Service" when I provision the VMs, or should I create separate Cloud Services for each VM.
The Help says this about Cloud Services.
CLOUD SERVICE
A cloud service is a container for one or more virtual machines you create. You can create a cloud service for a single virtual machine, or you can load balance multiple virtual machines by placing them in the same cloud service.
I'm not planning on doing any load balancing between my VMs, they will simple all be members of the same domain and one the same virtual network and will need to be able to communicate freely with each other. Is there any benefit to putting them all in the same Cloud Service or should they each be in their own Cloud Service?
David A. Bermingham, MVP, Senior Technical Evangelist, SIOS Technology Corp