Azure Traffic Manager Priority,Weighted and Performance

Question

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.

Answer 1

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. 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.