Quick overview of Azure VM Specifications

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09/13/2016

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

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