May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
Content preview from Implementing Azure Solutions
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A-series virtual machines
A-series virtual machines are divided into two categories. The first one is basic and the second is standard, which is also the class of all other virtual machine series.
A-series virtual machines are very common and Microsoft deploys them over a variety of hardware types and CPUs. The performance of an A-series virtual machine is throttled, based upon the hardware, to offer consistent processor performance for the running instance, regardless of the hardware.
The differences between Azure A-series basic and standard are:
- Availability: Basic tier VMs are only available in small A0-A4 instances for testing purpose, standard tier VMs are available on all size instances and regions.
- Disk IOPS: Data disk IOPS for basic ...