Azure Classroom Series – 06/Aug/2020 – Direct DevOps from Quality Thought

By default, azure vms are created in a multi-tenant mode (Same physical server will have different vm’s from different accounts)
Azure Operates multiple data centers around the world. These are grouped into geographical regions.
Special Azure Regions
- US Gov Virginia and Us Gov lowa
- China East & China North: partnership b/w Microsoft & 21Vianet.
- Germany Central & Germany Northeast: Customer data remains in Germany under control of T-Systems.

Types of Virtual Machines in Azure are
- General Purpose
- Compute Optimized
- Memory Optimized
- Storage Optimized
- GPU
- High Performance Compute
In Azure VM when we create vm instance we get to select CPU,RAM combination & hard disk counts
General Purpose Compute:
- Provide Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio.
- Ideal for dev & test, small to medium databases and low to medium traffic web servers.
Compute Optimized:
- These VM sizes have high CPU-to-memory ratio
- Ideal for medium traffic web servers, network appliances, batch processes and application servers.
Memory Optimized:
- These VM sizes have high memory-to-cpu ration.
- Ideal for relational databases, medium to large cache service & in-memory analytics
Storage Optimized:
- These VM sizes offer high disk throughput & IO
- Ideal for Big Data, SQL, NOSQL databases, Data warehousing.
GPU optimized Virtual machines:
- The VM sizes are specialized vm with GPUs (Single, multiple & fractional)
- Ideal for compute-intensive, graphics-intensive and visualization workloads
High Performance Compute:
- HPC optimized VM Sizes are used to solve some of the most computationally intensive problems like fluid dynamics, earth modeling, weather simulations etc.

Azure Classroom Series – 06/Aug/2020