Tag: Azure-Compute

Instance mix in Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets allows you to define multiple VM sizes within a single scale set that uses Flexible Orchestration Mode so Azure can choose among them during provisioning. This capability improves provisioning success, helps reduce cost, and supports predictable allocation ordering when your workload can run on different VM sizes…

Secure Boot is a security standard that ensures only trusted software runs during the boot process. In Azure, Secure Boot uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) keys to validate the integrity of boot loaders and drivers. For advanced scenarios, you may need to customize Secure Boot keys. This feature allows you to modify Unified Extensible…

Hibernation for Windows virtual machines in Microsoft Azure allows a VM to pause execution while preserving the in-memory state to disk. When resumed, applications and OS sessions continue exactly where they left off, unlike a full reboot. Key Benefits Supported VM sizes VM sizes with up to 64-GB RAM from the following General Purpose VM…

Linux VM hibernation in Microsoft Azure enables virtual machines to pause execution while preserving the full in-memory state to disk. When the VM is started again, the Linux OS resumes exactly from where it left off—processes, applications, and sessions intact. This feature is designed for cost optimization and fast resume for stateful Linux workloads. Supported…

In Microsoft Azure, Automatic Extension Upgrade ensures that VM extensions are automatically updated to the latest minor version without manual intervention. This helps keep virtual machines and scale sets secure, stable, and compliant. It applies to: Prerequisites Before enabling automatic upgrades: Supported extensions To check if your extensions are supported for automatic upgrade, view Automatic…

Tags are metadata elements that you can apply to Azure resources to help categorize and organize them according to business, operational, or governance needs. A tag is a key–value pair. For example, to track deployment environments, you might add a tag with the key Environment and the value Production, forming Environment = Production. This article…

There are several scenarios where you may need to move Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) from one region to another—for example, to improve reliability and availability, enhance manageability, or meet governance requirements. Azure Site Recovery (ASR) enables you to replicate and move Azure VMs to a secondary region. In this you will learn how to:…

Availability Zones in Azure provide enhanced resiliency by protecting applications and data from datacenter-level failures. Each Availability Zone consists of one or more datacenters with independent power, cooling, and networking. Azure ensures high availability by offering a minimum of three physically separate zones in every zone‑enabled region. This physical isolation within a region helps safeguard…

You have control over when to update the scale set instances when using the manual upgrade policy mode. When the scale set model changes, nothing happens automatically to the virtual machines that are already in place. The most recent model is used in new instances that are added to the scale set. Any modifications made…

Rolling upgrade policy mode The scale set updates in batches when using a rolling upgrade policy mode. With options like batch size, maximum healthy percentage, prioritizing unhealthy instances, and enabling upgrades across availability zones, you also have additional control over the upgrades. Production workloads that need a certain number of instances to be available at…

The upgrade policy mode you select can affect the overall service uptime of your Virtual Machine Scale Set. The available upgrade policy modes are automatic, manual, and rolling. The upgrade policy mode can be defined during the scale set formation process or adjusted after deployment. If you do not specifically specify the upgrade policy mode,…

A supported Windows Remote Desktop client and session host can establish a direct UDP-based connection by using the RDP Shortpath functionality of Azure Virtual Desktop. To activate RDP Shortpath, you must first fulfill the requirements. For your situation, choose one of the tabs below. Prerequisites Public Networks scenario If networks and firewalls permit the traffic…

Zone-redundant storage replicates your data across three storage clusters in a region. Each cluster is physically separated from the other two, which means that each cluster is supplied by separate utilities, such as power or networking.If there’s an outage in a datacenter, you can still access your data from another availability zone in that region….

Researchers around the world have access to a greater variety and volume of genomics data than ever before. Genomics is now available to a vast majority of researchers, pushing forward the discovery at a tremendous pace and changing people’s lives. This growth is happening because of the perfect storm between genomic testing and technological improvements….

Today, we’re announcing the limited preview go-live of the DCsv3-series and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines, starting in the East US 2 region.  These VMs dramatically improve the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads. Based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processor, we’ve increased encrypted memory by 1000x and increased CPU cores (up to 48 cores) for more performance….

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot pricing is available on single VMs in addition to VM scale sets (VMSS). This enables you to deploy a broader variety of workloads on Azure while enjoying access to discounted pricing…

Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium and Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks. To provide the best performance and cost balance for your production workloads, we are making significant improvements to our portfolio of Azure Premium…

Updated on July 17, 2020: Azure Shared Disks is now generally available. For more information, please refer to the blog post Announcing the general availability of Azure Shared Disks and new Azure Disk Storage enhancements. Today, we are announcing the limited preview of Azure Shared Disks, the industry’s first shared cloud block storage. Azure Shared Disks enables the…

Earlier this year, we announced the preview of Azure proximity placement groups to enable customers to achieve co-location of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources with low network latency. Today’s general availability of proximity placement groups continues to be particularly useful for workloads that require low latency. In fact, this logical grouping construct ensures that your…

We’re announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines. Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot pricing is available on single Virtual Machines in addition to Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). This enables you to deploy a broader variety of workloads on Azure while enjoying access to…

We are excited to announce the preview of direct-upload to Azure managed disks. Today, there are two ways you can bring an on-premises VHD to Azure as a managed disks: Stage the VHD into a storage account before converting it into a managed disk.  Attach an empty managed disk to a virtual machine and do copy….

The release of Storage Explorer 1.10.0 brings many exciting updates and new features that we hope can help you be more productive and efficient when working with your Azure Storage Accounts. If you’ve never used Storage Explorer before, make sure to head to our product page, and download it for your favorite operating system. In this…