Four questions concerning the configuration of Azure

Pablo S 106 Reputation points
2020-08-14T07:14:03.4+00:00

Hello Azure-Community,

I am currently adjusting the configuration of our IT infrastructure to Azure and have come across a few questions. I am grateful for any help in this regard.

  1. ) We are currently using DS1_v2 for our staging environment and have very little workload. Which VM size would be better suited? I had thought about B2s or B1s.

2.) What is the difference in price and performance between an SSD Standard and an SSD Premium as an operating system data carrier? Where can I adapt them on the azure platform?

3.) Regarding SQL Databases: What storage capacity does a pool have with the Basic tariff?

4.) Is it still possible to make savings on storage? We currently use StorageV2 (general, version 2)/hot.

Kind regards

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  1. KalyanChanumolu-MSFT 8,316 Reputation points
    2020-08-17T06:21:40.77+00:00

    Hello @Pablo S
    Thank you for your interest in Azure products.

    Let me try and address your questions one by one

    1. We are currently using DS1_v2 for our staging environment and have very little workload. Which VM size would be better suited? I had thought about B2s or B1s.

    If you have a use case where a staging environment VM cannot be deallocated and needs to be running 24/7, B Series VM's are indeed a good choice.
    The VM instance builds up credits when it is using less CPU than its baseline.

    Deciding between B2s & B1s really depends on the applications running on your VM.
    Standard_B1s has only 1 vCPU and 1GB memory
    Standard_B2s has 2 vCPUs and 4GB memory

    You can get more details from the link above.

    2. What is the difference in price and performance between an SSD Standard and an SSD Premium as an operating system data carrier? Where can I adapt them on the azure platform?

    The total cost of an SSD Managed Disk storage depends on the size and number of disks, the number of transactions, and the number of outbound data transfers.

    You can compare the pricing in detail here

    Coming to performance, Standard SSD Disks are designed to provide single-digit millisecond latencies for most IO operations.
    They combine the elements of Premium SSD Disks and Standard HDD Disks to form a cost-effective solution best suited for applications like web servers which do not need high IOPS on disks.

    You can read more about them here

    3. Regarding SQL Databases: What storage capacity does a pool have with the Basic tariff?

    For a Basic Service Tier, you get 5GB storage per pool billed at $0.1009/hour.
    More details on pricing are here

    4. Is it still possible to make savings on storage? We currently use StorageV2 (general, version 2)/hot.

    I cant really comment on this without knowing more about your use case, current utilization, data access patterns etc.

    Please let us know if you have any queries or follow up questions on the above responses.

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