How Azure Works

• Overview
  

Azure VM Billing

• Azure Will Charge for the
  • VM if the physical server has the resources attached to it. i.e. if you deallocate the vm (freeing server resources) then no charges for vm
  • If your perform os shutdown from the vm, resources will not be deallocated so you will be still paying the hourly charges.
  • A disk also gets attached to the virtual machine. In Azure you have two types of disks
    • disks: They get allocated from a different physical host in the same datacenter. For this charges will continue until you delete the disk
      
    • tempdisk: They get allocated from the same phyiscal host where the vm is allocated (for this no charges)
      
      
• Azure Power States and billing Refer Here

Exercise

• Create a Azure VM of Size
  • B1S (Free trail expired) in the east us location.
  • Any size in any location (Free trail)
• Choose the operating system to be Windows 2016 server
• Make a note of number of data disks and size of temp disk
• Login into the vm and verify the sizes of the disks and connectivity
• Then repeat the same activity with RedHat Linux 8