As soon as you start working with VMs, you will notice that Microsoft offers lots of different VMs and is still expanding its offerings. The reason why Microsoft offers so many VM types is easy to explain. Microsoft needs to support different kinds of workloads. VMs are always the basement for every Microsoft service offered out of Azure or other Microsoft Cloud Services. VMs are also the core component for virtual appliances in Azure such as Hadoop, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, third-party network appliances, or open source appliances.
Microsoft currently offers the following types of VMs:
- Basic A-series: For testing and development.
- Standard A-series: All-round VMs for various workloads.
- Compute intense A-series: Designed for high performance computing.
- D and DS-series: For enterprise applications and applications with a higher demand for compute power and temporary disk performance.
- F and FS-series: Optimized for network operation. They support workloads...