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The HA ports load-balancing rules help you with critical scenarios, such as high availability and scale for network virtual appliances (NVAs) inside virtual networks. The feature can help when a large number of ports must be load-balanced.
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HA Ports are commonly used for Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) such as firewalls, VPNs, or SD-WAN devices, where defining individual load-balancing rules per port is not practical. Traffic is distributed per connection flow (5-tuple), and health probes are used to ensure traffic is sent only to healthy instances.
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Please note that HA Ports are not supported on Basic or Public Load Balancers and are not intended for typical web or application workloads that require port-specific rules.
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:::image type="content" source="media/load-balancer-components/harules.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Load Balancer HA ports configuration diagram showing frontend ports directing to backend instances.":::
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*Figure: HA Ports rules*

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