KnownVMCategory enum

VMCategories defined for Azure VMs.

Fields

ComputeOptimized

Compute optimized VM sizes have a high CPU-to-memory ratio. These sizes are good for medium traffic web servers, network appliances, batch processes, and application servers.

FpgaAccelerated

FPGA optimized VM sizes are specialized virtual machines available with single or multiple FPGA.

GeneralPurpose

General purpose VM sizes provide balanced CPU-to-memory ratio. Ideal for testing and development, small to medium databases, and low to medium traffic web servers.

GpuAccelerated

GPU optimized VM sizes are specialized virtual machines available with single, multiple, or fractional GPUs.

HighPerformanceCompute

Azure High Performance Compute VMs are optimized for various HPC workloads such as CFD, FEA, EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis.

MemoryOptimized

Memory optimized VM sizes offer a high memory-to-CPU ratio that is great for relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics.

StorageOptimized

Storage optimized virtual machine (VM) sizes offer high disk throughput and IO, and are ideal for Big Data, SQL, NoSQL databases, data warehousing, and large transactional databases.