Design Compute Infrastructure VM

Compute Intensive Applications

VMs

Scale Sets

Default single Placement Group (100VM)

Multiple placement groups allows up to 1000VM

Placement group similar to availability set concept

CPU Intensive (HPC)

A8-11 Series

H Series

Fault / Update Domains

Availability Sets

Batch

Backup

Site Recovery

Replicate On prem to AZ Storage

GPU Intensive

NV Series

NC Series

Managed Disks

HDD 500IOPS

SDD 1600 IOPS

3 Fault Domains Default

5 Update Domains Default

Numbering Starts at 0

30min Between update domains

Some Regions & Classic only have 2 FD

H8-H16 More RAM CPU Disks & NICs

3 times faster than A series Eqiv