Quick overview of Azure VM Specifications

 

Choosing the Image for the task

It’s all about choice for your virtual machines. Choose Linux or Windows. Choose to be on-premises, in the cloud, or both. Choose your own virtual machine image or download a certified pre-configured image in our marketplace. With Virtual Machines, you’re in control.

Choose your language, workload, operating system

With support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP, Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions—development and testing, running applications, and extending your computer labs.

Open source, with options

You can deploy a full range of open-source and community-driven software solutions on Azure. Choose from a full range of Linux distributions like Red Hat, Ubuntu and SUSE, as well as community-driven solutions like Chef, Puppet, and Docker.

Even deploy virtual machines for other products like Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server. Azure is open with lots of options

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Scale to what you need

Combine the performance of a world-class supercomputer with the scalability of the cloud. Scale from one to thousands of virtual machine instances. Plus, with the growing number of regional Azure datacenters, easily scale globally so you’re closer to where your customers are.

Create virtual machines in minutes. Choose from our images or images provided by partners and the community.

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Understand the VM Hardware Options

 

A Series			A Series	InfiniBand
	HDD backed temporary drive			HDD backed temporary drive
	Comes in 2 flavours; Basic and Standard			RDMA network configuration
	Cost effective commodity compute			Intel® Xeon® E5 processors
	MIN: 1 core and 3.5GB RAM MAX: 16 cores and 112GB RAM			MIN: 8 core and 56GB RAM MAX: 16 cores and 112GB RAM

 

D Series			D Series	v2
	SSD backed temporary drive			SSD backed temporary drive
	MIN: 8 core and 56GB RAM MAX: 16 cores and 112GB RAM			Haswell CPU core E5-2673 v3 @ 2.4 – 3.1 GHz
	MIN: 1 core and 3.5GB RAM MAX: 16 cores and 112GB RAM			MIN: 1 core and 3.5GB RAM MAX: 20 cores and 140GB RAM
				~60% faster than A Series

 

F Series			FS Series
	SSD backed temporary drive			SSD backed temporary drive
	Haswell CPU core E5-2673 v3 @ 2.4 – 3.1 GHz			SSD backed boot volume
	MIN: 1 core and 2GB RAM MAX: 16 cores and 32GB RAM			Haswell CPU core E5-2673 v3 @ 2.4 – 3.1 GHz
	2GB RAM and 16GB local SSD per core			MIN: 1 core and 2GB RAM MAX: 16 cores and 32GB RAM

 

N Series
	SSD backed temporary drive
	NVIDIA GPU Enabled
	RDMA network configuration
	MIN: 6 core and 56GB RAM MAX: 24 cores and 224GB RAM

 

G Series			GS Series
	SSD backed temporary drive			SSD backed temporary drive
	MIN: 2 core and 28GB RAM MAX: 32 cores and 448GB RAM			SSD backed boot volume
	G5: Dedicated hardware			MIN: 2 core and 28GB RAM MAX: 32 cores and 448GB RAM

 

Summary

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Comments

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2016
  Great overview - clear and simple - thanks.Only observation is that the core/memory counts above don't seem to match https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-windows-sizes/
  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2016
    Mark, Thanks data corrected.