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
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Create a vm with size
B1s
- Changing the size of virtual machines is referred as vertical scaling.
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Lets look at two terms
- scale up and scale down (Vertical scaling)
- scale in and scale out (Horizontal scaling)
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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
