Virtual Machine Availability, Downtime and Scale

Virtual Machine Availability and Downtime Azure VMs can be affected by: Unplanned Hardware Maintenance Triggered when Azure predicts a hardware/platform failure. Uses Live Migration to move VMs to healthy hardware, causing minimal downtime. Unexpected Downtime Caused by hardware/network failures. Azure automatically migrates the VM to healthy hardware, but a reboot may occur, and temporary disk […]

Linux Virtual Machines in Azure

Linux Virtual Machines in Azure Azure supports a wide range of Linux distributions and versions, including: CentOS by OpenLogic CoreOS Debian Oracle Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Ubuntu Linux Distribution Highlights When working with Linux virtual machines in Azure, keep the following in mind: Hundreds of Linux images are available through the Azure Marketplace. […]

Azure Virtual Machines support operating system

Supported Operating Systems Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support a wide range of operating system (OS) images, including multiple versions of Windows Server and popular Linux distributions. The selected OS directly impacts your hourly compute cost, as Azure bundles applicable OS licensing fees into the VM price. Azure Marketplace Images In addition to base OS images, […]

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) Overview Azure Virtual Machines are on-demand, scalable computing resources that provide full control over the operating system, storage, and networking. They are ideal when you need more flexibility than Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings like Azure App Service. Azure VMs are part of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), where computing […]