Upgrade basic load balancer without deleting Basic LB

Question

Upgrade a basic load balancer with AzureBasicLoadBalancerUpgrade module without deleting Basic LB?

Since it is possible to use different name for standard LB by defining -StandardLoadBalancerName parameter, why not give an option for customer to keep the old basic LB? It might be good to keep basic LB even after the upgrade for a while before eventually deleting it completely. Is there any reason why this option is not available? or is there a plan to add this capability to the existing module?

Answer 1

Hi Yasmin, Fitri,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform! Thank you for asking your question here.

The upgrade process currently requires deleting the Basic Load Balancer once the upgrade to Standard is initiated. This design choice may be due to Azure's resource management policies, which prevent mixing Basic and Standard SKU resources.

You can back the old LB in the json file at the specified path.

Start-AzBasicLoadBalancerUpgrade -ResourceGroupName <loadBalancerRGName> -BasicLoadBalancerName <basicLBName> -StandardLoadBalancerName <newStandardLBName> -RecoveryBackupPath C:\BasicLBRecovery

In Azure Feedback Hub forum requesting this feature. All the feedback shared in these forums are monitored and reviewed by the Microsoft engineering teams responsible for building Azure

Thanks,
Rohith

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