Hi,
We have a 3rd-party legacy application which requires desktop interaction, stores local data and uses the local registry. In order to run this at Azure we created a single-disk VHD and created an image in our subscription. This image has successfully been used to create a number of client-specific versions of this desktop machine.
We now however need to have a version of the VM which belongs to an availability set such that if a user is logged-on to the desktop running the application, they are not affected by updates/failures on the underlying platform.
Will a VM availability set allow us this resilience?
I have read about the process to create and add machines to an availability set and I am comfortable with it so far but where my understanding drops off is how the VMs will kick-in during an update/failure and whether we need to manually 'mirror' the local machine and its local data between VMs in the set.
Can anyone advise me on this?
Many Thanks