Azure Compute – Virtual Machines

Virtual Machine Sizes

• VMs are categoriezed by purpose which is referred as type
  
  
• Each virtual machine which we create will be from some physical server
• Azure Vm size naming convention Refer Here
• Note: We can create a Azure vm with one size or type and then resize to other size (type)

Resize Vm

• Create a vm with size B1s
  
  
• Changing the size of virtual machines is referred as vertical scaling.
• Lets look at two terms
  • scale up and scale down (Vertical scaling)
  • scale in and scale out (Horizontal scaling)
• Every Vmsize in Azure dictates the following
  • Family (Subfamily)
  • Additive
  • Number of cpus
  • RAM size
  • Data Disk count
  • Temp Disk size
  • Max IOPS (Disk speed max)
• Price of virtual machine
  • price of vm size
  • price of disk
  • price of public ip
• Refer Here for pricing calculator
• Virtual machine selector Refer Here