Reading Time: < 1 minute Check out the video from the Learn Live session I co-hosted on Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and how this offering from Azure can help an organization scale their infrastructure services on Azure in a secure and performant way.
PowerShell snippet of the day #3
Reading Time: < 1 minute Get a list of your Azure VMs and respective VM sizes, for a specific Resource Group.
New constrained vCPUs capable VMs now available
Reading Time: < 1 minute Azure offers various VM sizes for which you can constrain the VM vCPU count to reduce the cost of software licensing while maintaining the same memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth.
Constrained vCPU capable Azure VMs
Reading Time: 2 minutes This offering of constrained vCPU capable VMs has been around for quite a while in Azure. Use it for your SQL Server or Oracle servers that are not CPU intensive but need the rest of the resources RAM, IO, network to be of a larger VM but with a lower price because of fewer cores to license.
Azure Spot Virtual Machines goes GA
Reading Time: 3 minutes General availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines was announced today. Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Read the post to get more insight.