Overview
What is Azure Virtual Machines?
Virtual Machines (VMs) are available on Microsoft Azure, providing what is built as a low-cost, per-second compute service, available via Windows or Linux.
There is only one choice for hosting Windows servers in the cloud
Azure VMs offer flexibility beyond competition
Let's talk about VMs
Databricks on Azure VMs
Opens the door to cloud computing
Straight forward to setup and deploy your application server. Excellent support from Microsoft
On-demand availability to resources and pay-as-you-go solution
Azure Virtual Machines
Azure VMs are good value for money
- Isolated development machines for working with Azure cloud services.
- Hosting Jenkins master …
Virtual Provision for better performance
The business problems the product addresses are many.
Some of …
My Honest Review of Azure Virtual Machines.
A perfect setup for easy availability
Suites very well with my CoE practice needs, flexible and compatible
Azure Virtual Machines, quick win
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Popular Features
- Virtual machine automated provisioning (23)9.191%
- Live virtual machine backup (19)9.191%
- Live virtual machine migration (16)8.686%
- Management console (21)8.080%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
3 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S
$0.0038
Spot - General Purpose - Av2
$0.005
1 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S
$0.0059
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Server Virtualization
Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server
- 9.1Virtual machine automated provisioning(23) Ratings
Automation of virtual machine provisioning through use of vm templates
- 8Management console(21) Ratings
Management console for central administration of vm environment
- 9.1Live virtual machine backup(19) Ratings
Ability to backup vms without interrupting service
- 8.6Live virtual machine migration(16) Ratings
Downtime minimization by migrating live vms between hosts and across clusters
- 8.6Hypervisor-level security(16) Ratings
Hypervisor-level security including antivirus and anti-malware
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- Tech Details
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What is Azure Virtual Machines?
Azure Virtual Machines Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-23 of 23)Azure VM's || Cost Effective Solution for VM Allocation.
- Scalability & Flexibility
- Integration with Azure Ecosystem.
- Provides Wide Range of VM Sizes That helps us in Effective Selection.
- Azure VM can be improved in There Boot up time.
- One can expect better cost optimisation.
- Azure can also improve the UI and Configuration Part setup for VM's
Also for cloud management and optimization solutions one can trust the Azure VM. We can leverage VMs for various use cases, including application hosting, development and testing, data analysis, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud deployments.
One more thing with Azure Is that they provide a great customer support as well
- Security guidance
- Integrations with other Azure services
- Cost management
- Improve naming and pricing tiers of VM sizes
- Simplify the user interface
- Allow configuration mixing and matching rather than VM sizes
Azure VMs offer flexibility beyond competition
- Scalability
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Pricing
- Detailed VM hardware customisation
- Discounts for long-term use
Let's talk about VMs
- Many presets are available when spinning up a new instances to match you workload, instead of having to start from scratch
- VM Scale sets makes it really easy to scale in & out the VMs easily
- When getting started, no need to manage a networking layer before starting a new instance, no need for any VPC complexitites, as Azure handles it.
- VM Firewall and security rules can be managed directly from the Azure interface
- Slightly more expensive that other cloud provider VMs
- The spin up time is a little longer as well. Even a few seconds count when you need to scale up quickly
- Lacking choices when choosing Linux based OS images
Databricks on Azure VMs
- Rapid Scalability
- Variety of elastic storage options
- Flexibility and control for app deployment
- Regular Updates for security and feature upgrades
- Fault tolerance
- Native Integration with Databricks
- Pricing can be a bit better
- Compute types can be increased (AWS EC2 has more)
- No Bare metal GPU instances as in OCI
Opens the door to cloud computing
- Ease of use.
- Relatively fast deployment.
- Tons of features we can take advantage of in Azure.
Straight forward to setup and deploy your application server. Excellent support from Microsoft
- Deploy docker containers in VMs, various OS options available
- Not sure - they are easy to setup and get going.
- Always available and on-demand support.
- Scalable and flexible product.
- Easy to configure and install.
- Customizing advanced setting is not easy to beginners.
- Moving multiple data is not easy for starters.
- Feedback collection from many sources is not also easy from the start.
Azure Virtual Machines
- You can login to Azure VMs using SSO with your Azure Ad account
- Azure VMs are securely accessible from anywhere in the world, with Azure Bastion
- You can execute scripts on the VM from the Azure portal without logging in to it
- No hot plug available when increasing VM hardware
- SSO for Windows WMs is somewhat limited
Azure VMs are good value for money
- Isolated development machines for working with Azure cloud services.
- Hosting Jenkins master server used to deploy our Azure-based applications.
- Hosting Jenkins agents for CI/CD pipelines which are built on separate VNETs for dev, test, sim, and prod.
- Azure Data Factory integration runtime to run ADF pipelines.
- Very easy to spin up.
- Low amount of maintenance.
- Low cost when using reserved instances.
- Flexible in terms of supported OSs.
- Additional security risk that needs to be managed.
- Complexity to make replicas of a VM.
- Potentially build and forget in larger enterprises which will drain money.
Virtual Provision for better performance
The business problems the product addresses are many.
Some of them are:
1. Testing the applications on cross platforms. It is basically testing whether the software works in all the operating systems.
2. Automatic allotment of virtual machines based on the traffic encountered.
- Provisioning
- Scaling
- Faster deployment
- Swapping of OS disks is a bit difficult.
- More features can be introduced for low size VMs.
My Honest Review of Azure Virtual Machines.
- Low pricing.
- Virtual Machines are very responsive.
- Compatible with other providers.
- Deployment process must be easy as compared to other providers.
- Linux support must be enhanced.
- Pricing model needs to be more convenient.
A perfect setup for easy availability
- DR Setup
- Availability across multiple regions.
- Network security.
- API integration for Monitoring.
- Service Now integration for Asset Management.
- I believe billing is one region where there is still room for improvement.
- Also the migration from physical machine is easy on AWS still.
- I feel there are still issues with running SAP on these hosts.
- We need to deploy tools in multiple different platforms like Windows and Linux, it gives flexibility and easy deployment with configurations for our testing.
- Azure monitoring comes with the Azure subscription which helps us to quickly monitor Azure health and also quickly integrates with enterprise solutions.
- I believe for longer commitments, Azure discounts could have been better.
Azure Virtual Machines, quick win
- Easy management.
- User friendly.
- Controlled billing.
- Access rights and security.
- Shell
- Logs
- Apps templates
Azure Virtual Machines are perfectly serviceable
- It's relatively easy to set up Azure Virtual Machines within the console.
- Azure Virtual Machines exist in the Azure ecosystem so you have access to other Azure services.
- Azure customer support has been responsive to our needs.
- Pricing can be a concern if you are truly agnostic to which cloud you are building your particular solution in.
- The UI, as is the case with any cloud provider, is crowded.
- As with any cloud provider, it can be difficult to tune in exactly the right amount of servers for your needs...you might find yourself under/overprovisioning.
- Rapid elasticity.
- Cost effective.
- High availability.
- May not always be the most cost-effective option.
- The costs of higher-spec VMs may be prohibitive in some scenarios.
- Azure Virtual Machines are IaaS so some management is required. Vendor-managed SaaS may be preferable for certain applications.
Why Azure Cloud Virtual Machines just is.
- When demand is high, we scale the service out, eg During a Football Match.
- When a football match is over and the throughput of data from OPTA drops we save by the service scaling back in.
- Our App Service Plans along with the Clean C# code are lightening fast giving a good customer experience.
- When producing the TV Guide information and a program overruns its scheduled time, a client can instantly be updated to the new programming schedule as our change is instant and its in the right place for all the clients to download and adjust their television guides appropriately to send out to the public giving a 24x7 uptime service that is precise and accurate and resilient to outages due to failover zones around the world.
- Support on VMs doing strange things around NETUSE as a command resulted in constantly being sent over to INDIA where personally I found a real Language Barrier and even after specifically expressing a support service in the UK or the US it did keep finding its way back to a company called MINDTREE, the language barrier was such that after 4 or 5 meetings I was been asked the same questions that I was asked in the initial day 1 meeting and round and round it went, this issue was never resolved, we had to write code and utilize a different workaround to get over having to use the NETUSE command which previous to a VM running Windows server 2019 Datacentre worked fine.
- Azure Pricing could be more competitive to AWS.
- Having the ability to control app service plans which at the minute are just something that exists and we are not able to really see what they are doing which becomes an issue when you want to try and bug fix an issue.
We use it for football, horse racing, Olympics games etc, it is also used when things happen in the world like right now there is a lot of concern over the Russia and Ukraine conflict, since the demand for this information is high we instantly scale to meet the demand of our news feed services. I believe up to 90% of the UK's News, sports and media information actually passes through our computer systems, we are a market leading news and information service and Azure Virtual Machines provide us with the reliability that we need so that we can provide a rock solid reliable news and information service to the world.
- Scalaility
- Change the configuration of all VMs independently.
- Backup and restoration.
- Need to be able to create all size of VM, including small size one.
- If server issues, all VM will have an issue, so if the server is down or slow, all VM will suffer from it.
Azure VM interface is really intuitive and easy to use.
- Easy and fast to build.
- A lot of features to manage and expand the VMs.
- Intuitive UI makes you learn fast.
- To swap an OS disk has some requirements, so not all disks are available to easily swap.
- Would be good if the public IP assignments were fixed and would not change over time, by default.
- Nothing else i can think of.
- Scalability.
- Cost management.
- Power/cost ratios.
- Remote access and secure control.
- Clear grouping of resources for each virtual resource.
- Improving remote automation and access.
Extremely flexible with a vast range of configurations and features although a bit of a learning curve required.
- Integration with other MS services inside of Azure.
- Scale to extremely high specifications.
- Complexity of the overall user inveteracy and multiple options.
- Reduce the bandwidth costs.
Azure Virtual Machines Review
- Testing and developing
- Maintaining small and medium databases
- Maintaining low and medium traffic web servers
- It could have more storage available
- It could run faster
- It could have more power