Migrate your business and mission critical workloads to Azure. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.
Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand.
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- A-Series – Entry-level economical VMs for dev/test
- Bs-Series Economical burstable VMs
- D-Series General purpose compute
- DC-series Protect data in use
- E-Series Optimised for in-memory hyper-threaded applications
- F-Series Compute optimised virtual machines
- G-Series Memory and storage optimised virtual machines
- H-Series High Performance Computing virtual machines
- Ls-Series Storage optimised virtual machines
- M-Series Memory optimised virtual machines
- Mv2-Series Largest memory optimised virtual machines
- N-Series GPU enabled virtual machines
A virtual machine (VM) is a software computer used as emulation of an actual physical computer. A virtual server operates in a “multi-tenant” environment, meaning that multiple VMs run on the same physical hardware. In this case, the computing resources of a physical server are virtualized and shared among all VMs running on it. The architecture of a virtual server is a little more complex than that of a physical server. Thus, a hypervisor, such as VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V, is installed on top of physical hardware. A hypervisor is then used to create and manage VMs, which have their own virtual computing resources. After that, you can load multiple guest OSes and server applications on top of the virtual hardware. Thus, virtual servers allow you to run several OSes and applications on the basis of the shared physical hardware, which makes it a more cost-effective option than a physical server.