Azure virtual machines

Understanding Microsoft Azure Architecture and Services

Florin Angelescu

Azure Architect

What is a virtual machine (VM)?

• Computer within your computer
• Allows running different operating systems and applications
• No need for a separate physical device

What is a virtual machine (VM)?

Traditional virtual machines

Azure virtual machines

Virtual machine components

Virtual machines use cases

• Hosting applications
• Conducting analytics
• Handling data-related tasks
• Running legacy applications

Scaling

• Individual VMs
  • Testing
  • Development
  • Smaller tasks
• Group VMs
  • High availability
  • Scalability
  • Redundancy

Scale sets

• Deploy and manage a set of identical virtual machines
• Number of virtual machines can be automatically adjusted
• Top performance and efficient resource utilization
• Minimal cost

Scale sets use cases

• Datawarehouse load

Scale sets use cases

• Website scaling

Availability sets

Availability sets use cases

Migration from on-premises

• Initial phase migrate to the Azure cloud
• Substitute for traditional hardware
• First step towards PaaS

Future considerations

• PaaS solutions are replacing virtual machines
• Eliminates the need for managing underlying infrastructure
• Enable developers to focus on coding and application functionality

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Understanding Microsoft Azure Architecture and Services