Microsoft Azure VMCheat SheetMilos Halecka

Microsoft Azure VMCheat Sheet Milos Halecka

Senior Cloud Architect

milos.halecka@crayon.comAs of September 30th 2016

General Remarks

• This cheat sheet serves as a decision tool for sizing VMs in Microsoft Azure

• It’s based on public documentation and related links

• It’s free for sharing under CC-BY-SA license

• Please use e-mail address from title slide for comments

• Before final decision you should always consult official documentation and environment-specific requirements

• SlideShare somehow optimizes the pictures too much, so if you are not able to see the charts clearly, just download the PDF.

• “classic” VMs; RAM/CPU Ratio 1.75/1(except A0 with 768 MB and shared core); 500 IOPS per disk*; AMD Opteron 4171 HE @2.1GHz

A Series

• A9-A11 instances; RAM/CPU Ratio 7/1; 500 IOPS per disk; Intel Xeon E5-2670 @2.6 GHz; A8 and A9 instances with 32Gbps RDMA network

A “Compute Intensive”

• RAM/CPU Ratio 3.5&7/1; 500 IOPS per disk; Intel Xeon E5-2660 @2.2GHz, local SSD non-persistent Cache (ideal for SQL Server BPE or TempDB, replicated content)D Series

• same as D Series with about 35% faster processors; Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) @ 2.4GHz; same price than D SeriesD v2 Series

• same as D Series, persistent disks on SSD storageDS Series

•same as D v2 Series, persistent disks on SSD storageDS v2 Series

• RAM/CPU Ratio 2/1; 500 IOPS per disk; Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) @ 2.4GHz; new naming convention (numeric value means number of CPUs)F Series

• same as F Series, persistent disks on SSD storageFs Series

• “Godzilla”; RAM/CPU Ratio 14/1; Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 @ 2.0GHz; local non-persistent cacheG Series

• same as G Series, persistent disks on SSDGS Series

* in Standard tier. These machines can run in Basic tier with 300 IOPS and without High Availability

Azure VM Families

Azure VM Families (Cont’d)

•For high-end computational needs, like molecular modeling and computational fluid dynamics. Built on Intel Haswell E5-2667 v3 processors, featuring DDR4 memory and local solid-state drive (SSD) storage. Offers diverse options for remote direct memory access (RDMA) and low-latency networking using FDR InfiniBand, along with several memory configurations to support memory-intensive computational requirements.

H series

• VMs with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. Available in two families: NV for vizualization tasks (M60 GPU) and computing tasks (K80 GPU). VMs utilize 1, 2 or 8 GPUs based on their size. NC24r includes RDMA network interface.

N Series (preview)

Due to lack of specifications, this family is included only in the first chart

RAM/CPU

Max Network Bandwidth/Max NICs

VM Family/Max IOPS

Storage Throughput/Max IOPS

SSD-based VMs only

VM Family/Max Data Disks (1023GB)

Performance Benchmarks

As tested by Azure team

Windows VMs

Linux VMs

Changelog

July 2016 – initial version

August 2016 – N series added

September 2016 – H series added, benchmarks added