Once your cluster is created, you can inspect your cluster in the portal:
Service Fabric cluster details
To view your cluster status, perform the following steps:
- Go to browse and click Service Fabric Clusters.
- Locate your cluster and click it.
- You can now see the details of your cluster in the dashboard, including the cluster's public endpoint and a link to Service Fabric Explorer.
The nodes monitor section on the cluster's dashboard blade indicates the number of VMs that are healthy and not healthy. Click on the Service Fabric Explorer link now to explore the various components of your cluster.
You can create Service Fabric cluster using Azure Resource Manager. In fact, using ARM is the recommended strategy for deploying workloads. Using Resource Manager, you can repeatedly deploy your solution throughout the development lifecycle and have confidence that your resources are deployed in a consistent state The step-by-step guide to provision a Service Fabric cluster on Azure is available here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-cluster-creation-via-arm/.