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## Test the load balancer

# [Azure portal](#tab/azureportal)
In this section, you test the global load balancer. You connect to the public IP address in a web browser.  You stop the virtual machines in one of the regional load balancer backend pools and observe the failover.

1. Find the public IP address for the load balancer on the **Overview** screen. Select **All services** in the left-hand menu, select **All resources**, and then select **myPublicIP-cr**.

2. Copy the public IP address, and then paste it into the address bar of your browser. The default page of IIS Web server is displayed on the browser.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/tutorial-cross-region-portal/test-cr-lb-1.png" alt-text="Test load balancer" border="true":::

3. Stop the virtual machines in the backend pool of one of the regional load balancers.

4. Refresh the web browser and observe the failover of the connection to the other regional load balancer.

    :::image type="content" source="./media/tutorial-cross-region-portal/test-cr-lb-2.png" alt-text="Test load balancer after failover" border="true":::

# [Azure CLI](#tab/azurecli/)

In this section, you test the global load balancer. You connect to the public IP address in a web browser.  You stop the virtual machines in one of the regional load balancer backend pools and observe the failover.

1. To get the public IP address of the load balancer, use [az network public-ip show](/cli/azure/network/public-ip#az-network-public-ip-show):