October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
390 pages
9h 9m
English
The second step in the Azure Virtual Machine creation blade is to choose the size of your VM. The size of the VM will determine three things—the number of CPUs, the amount of memory, and the type of OS disk. As you choose the type of disk in step one as well, this will narrow down the options that are available. VM sizes have three different pricing tiers:
Basic-tier VMs are intended for dev/test environments and, even though they have a similar performance to VMs on the standard tier, there are a few limitations. They have lower IOPS than standard-tier VMs and don't support load balancing or auto-scaling.
Standard-tier VMs are intended to be used in a production environment and have ...
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