Azure Classroom Series – 07/Oct/2021

Virtual Machine Sizes

• Each VM Size in Azure will have

  • number of CPU cores
  • Size of RAM
  • Size of Temp Disk

• All the vm sizes in Azure are categorized into types

  • General Purpose:
    • Balanced CPU-to-memory.
    • Ideal for low to medium traffic webservers and ideal for testing and development, small to medium size database
    • This type has the following series
      • Av2: Refer Here
      • B-series: Refer Here
      • Dav4 and Dasv4 series Refer Here
      • Dv4 and Dsv4 series Refer Here
      • Ddv4 and Ddsv4 series Refer Here
      • Dv3 and Dsv3 veries Refer Here
      • Dv2 and Dsv2 Series Refer Here
      • DCv2 series Refer Here
  • Compute Optimized
    • High CPU to memory Ratio
    • Good for medium traffic webservers
    • network applicances
    • application servers
    • Series:
      • Fsv2 Series: Refer Here
      • FX series: Refer Here
  • Memory Optimized
    • High Memory to CPU Ratio
    • Ideal for Relational Database Servers, Cache Server and in-memory analytics
    • Series: Refer Here
      • Dv2 and DSv2
      • Eav4 and Easv4
      • Ev3 and Esv3
      • EV4 and Edv4
      • M Series
      • Mv2 Series
  • Storage Optimized
    • High disk throughput and IO.
    • Ideal for BigData, SQL, NoSQL Databases, Data warehousing and large transactional databases
    • Series Refer Here
  • GPU
    • Specialized vm’s targeted for heavy graphic rendering and video editing
    • They are also used in Maching Learning Model training, Deep learning etc
    • Series Refer Here
  • High Performance Compute
    • Fastest and most Powerful CPU virtual machines with optional high-throughput network interfaces (RDMA)
    • Series: Refer Here

• Using Pricing Calculator

  • Refer Here for the link