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I am generating some sample trying out business cases for Azure Traffic Manager along with different configuration like:

  1. Performance

    2.Priority

  2. Weighted

As per my understanding, Performance can be used if I want to have minimal network latency for my Geo distributed application along with ensuring concept of localization.

Priority can be best utilized in case of fail over as If a node with High priority fails, traffic will be re-routed to the node with immediate low priority.

I am looking for a justifiable business case where I can use the weighted technique with the traffic manager.

Please correct me if I am going wrong with usage of Performance and Priority configuration and please help me understand the usage of weighted mode as well.

Thanks in advance to all the experts.

Jason Ye
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Yes, you are right about Performance and priority. About the Weighted traffic-routing method, the 'Weighted' traffic-routing method allows you to distribute traffic evenly or to use a pre-defined weighting. enter image description here In the Weighted traffic-routing method, you assign a weight to each endpoint in the Traffic Manager profile configuration. The weight is an integer from 1 to 1000. This parameter is optional. If omitted, Traffic Managers uses a default weight of '1'.

More information about Weighted traffic-routing method, refer to the link.

Jason Ye
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  • Just checking in to see if the information provided was helpful. Please let me know if you would like further assistance. – Jason Ye Jan 05 '17 at 04:43
  • Thanks Jason, That link was really useful.. I have browsed a lot but dont know how does it missed my eye :-) – Mayank Joshi Jan 05 '17 at 13:07
  • An example of a specific use case our customers have used weighted round robin routing is when a new feature needs to be released in a phased manner. A customer could, for example, choose to make it available in only one endpoint and have say 1% of their users use it (by setting up the routing policy with this weightage) and can either roll it back or increase the percentage of users. hope this adds more context. – Dilip L - MSFT Jan 30 '17 at 20:56