Azure virtual machines give a wide range of computation solutions like developing, testing, and extending the datacenter and running applications. With the support of Windows Server, Linux, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, and IBM, Azure Virtual Machines give the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions. Following are the all major Azure Virtual Series that will guide you through the best selection of VMs according to the needs of your organization.
A Series VM
These are entry-level and economical VMs used often for development and testing. These are low budget and provide an easy option to get started with Azure. Azure has introduced the latest version of A series named Av2 with similar CPU performance but more RAM per CPU and better disk performance.
A series of virtual machines are often best suited for code repositories, development and test servers, small to medium databases and low traffic web servers
Its pricing would be around Rs. 772 per month (starting price).
B Series VM
Known for its first choice for a low-cost option for workloads which typically run at a low CPU utilization, but also supports scaling up with the CPU utilization when the demand rises.
Some of the uses cases for B series VM would be low traffic web servers, development, and test servers, micro-services, small databases, servers for proof-of-concept and build servers.
It would approximately cost Rs. 250 per month (starting price).
D Series VM
Commonly known as general-purpose VM, D series has fast CPUs and optimal CPU-to-memory configuration which makes it suitable for most of the production workloads. The latest generation VM is this series supports faster CPUs and high memories or local disk performance.
- Dv2 series comes with more powerful CPUs but the disk and memory configurations remain the -same as the D series.
- D2-64 are latest general-purpose virtual machines with 2.3 GHz Intel XEON ® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) processor.
Azure Premium SSDs are supported in D series.
These may be used in an enterprise-grade application, in-memory caching and analytics, and relational databases.
It will cost around Rs. 2,750 per month (starting price).
DC Series
These are the newly introduced set of virtual machines in Azure which aim to protect the integrity and confidentiality of the data as it supports built-in encrypting capabilities which the data in Azure when it is in transit or at rest.
DC series VMs are backed by the latest Intel Xenon E-2176G 3.7GHz processor with SGX technology. It has the potential to reach up to a 4.7 GHz processor with Intel Turbo Boost technology.
Mostly it's ideal to build secure based applications which protect the code and data while it in transit.
It will cost around Rs. 3,232 per month (starting price).
E Series
Typically designed for memory optimization applications such as SAP HANA, these virtual machines have high memory-to-core ratios, which makes them best suited for relational databases servers. This series has 2-64 CPUs and 16-432 GiB RAM respectively.
This series also supports Azure Premium SSDs.
Usually used in large in-memory business-critical workloads.
It will cost approximately Rs. 6,079 per month (starting price).
F Series
These are compute-optimized virtual machines that have higher CPU-to-memory ratio. Equipped with 2GB RAM and 16 GB of local solid-state drive per CPU core these can handle intensive workloads.
- Fsc2 series has 2GiB RAM and 8 GB of local temporary storage (SSD). It can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.7 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
It can be used in web servers, batch processing, gaming, and analytics.
It will cost approximately Rs. 2,364 per month (starting price).
G Series
The G series are both memory and storage optimized virtual machines with two times more memory and four times more Solid-State Drive Storage than the General-Purpose D-Series. G series supports up to ½ TB of RAM and 32 CPU cores. It provides unparalleled computational performance, memory and local SSD storage.
These are commonly used in large SQL and NoSQL databases, SAP, ERP, and data warehousing.
It will cost around Rs. 21,181 per month (starting price)
H Series
These are high-performance computing virtual machines and are categorized with names as HB series and HC series.
- HB series VM are driven by memory bandwidth, such as fluid dynamics, explicit finite and weather modeling. The VM features 4GB of RAM per CPU core, 60 AMD EPYC 7551 processor cores, no hyperthreading and up to 4 managed disks.
- HV series are driven by intensive computation such as implicit finite element analysis, computational chemistry, and reservoir. The VM features 8 GB of RAM per CPU core, 44 Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 processor core, no hyperthreading and up to 4 managed disks.
These VM series are popularly used in reservoir simulation, fluid dynamics, spark, computational chemistry, finite element simulation, electronic design automation, heat transfer simulation, risk analysis, weather modeling, and quantum simulation.
This series VM will cost Rs. 38,407 per month (starting price).
Ls Series
These are storage optimized virtual machines that are ideal for applications requiring high throughput, low latency, and large local disk storage. This series of VMs is featured with Intel Haswell processor technology with 4, 8, 16 and 32 core VM sizes specifically E5 Xenon v3 processor.
It will cost around Rs. 30,108 per month (starting price)
The latest Lsv2 series supports AMD EPYCTM 7551 processor that features low latency, high throughput and directly mapped local NVMe storage.
Used in data warehousing applications, MongoDB and large transactional databases.
M Series
The M series VM series features the largest memory-optimized VM. These VM are ideal for in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA. The M Series comes with up to 4TB of RAM on a single VM.
Typically used for critical workloads requiring massive parallel compute power.
It will cost around Rs. 74, 136 per month (starting price).
N Series
The N series virtual machines are GPU enabled, and are ideal for compute and graphics-intensive workloads which help customers through scenarios like high-end per remote visualization, predictive analytics, and deep learning.
The N series comes with three different offerings,
- The NC Series features NVIDIA’s Tesla V100 GPU that focuses on high computing performance and Machine Learning workloads.
- The ND Series uses tesla P40 GPUs that focuses on training and interference scenarios for deep learning.
- The NV series is backed by NVIDIA tesla M60 GPU that enables graphics-intensive applications and powerful remote visualization workloads and other.
It will cost around Rs. 43,425 per month (starting price) and is usually used in gaming, graphics rendering, video editing, deep learning, and simulations.