Sizing & Pricing Virtual Machines in Azure

I’m recurrently asked by customers similar questions around sizing & pricing of Virtual Machines (VMs), storage, etc. .  So I thought I would do a reusable asset in the form of this article.

This is especially important if you are trying to size /...

Cloud vs Hosting / Outsourcing

There is this recurring discussion with customers:  cloud is the new hosting.

While there are angles to look at the cloud that bring similarities, I will argue it is a bad analogy that is more likely to mislead you than help you.

I would argue further:  considering the cloud as...

Creating an image with 2 Managed Disks for VM Scale Set

UPDATE (23-06-2017):  Fabio Hara, a colleague of mine from Brazil, has published the ARM template on his GitHub.  This makes it much easier to try the content of this article.  Thank you Fabio!

We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them.

Let’s create an image from an OS + Data disk & create a Scale Set with...

Taking a snapshot of a Managed Disk

We talked about Managed Disks, now let’s use them.

Let’s snapshot a Managed Disk and restore the snapshot on another VM.

Deploy ARM Template

{ "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#", "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0", "parameters": { "VM Admin User Name": { "defaultValue": "myadmin", "type": "string" }, "VM Admin Password": { "defaultValue": null, "type": "securestring" }, "VM Size": { "defaultValue": "Standard_DS4", "type": "string", "allowedValues":...