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VM Types

• A Family
  • Best value
  • Basic and Standard Sizes
  • General Purpose and High Memory
  • High Performance (A8/A9) RDMA Networking
• D Family
  • 60% faster CPU
  • Up to 112 GB RAM
  • Local SSD (Instance???)
• G Family
  • Up to 32 CPU
  • Up to 448 GB RAM
  • 6.5 TB Local SSD (Instance??)
  • Latest Gen. Intel Processor – Fastest CPU family available
• DS & GS
  • Persistent SSD Storage (via Premium Storage)
• V
  • Not discussed yet
• N – GPU
  • Coming soon

Sizing

• Start Small – You can always grow
• Azure instances are supported by physical cores, not hyperthreaded.
• Default Core Limit = 20, but can be adjusted. (Soft Limit)

Availability and Service Level Agreements

• 99.95% Monthly Uptime
  • 4.38 hours of downtime per year for VMs in an availability set
• What’s included
  • Compute hardware failure (disk, cpu, memory)
  • Datacenter failures – Network, Power
  • Hardware upgrades, Software maintenance – Host OS Updates
• What is NOT included
  • VM Guest OS and Applications, VM Guest OS Updates
  • Customer on-premises network connectivity and intermediary Internet connectivity

Availability Sets

• Azure uses Availability Sets vs Availability Zones
• These are essentially Tags that push them into different Update and Fault Domains.
• 2 VMs in a set will automatically be provisioned on different hardware.

Anatomy of an IaaS v2 Deployment

19 minutes

 
 
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