Azure VM Size Overview

A quick explanation of why we have different types and why we would pick one over another!
Remember these sizes are used by not just VMs. VMSS, AKS and more all uses these VM sizes!
Whiteboard - github.com/joh...
ACU docs.microsoft...
VM Sizes - docs.microsoft...

[@colinrhee98]

Im preparing to take the AZ-900 exam soon, and I want to thank you for the thorough explanations and videos you've provided. It's fantastic to have resources like yours to refer to when learning.

[@bensonshiu3945]

I watched a few of your videos about Azure. You explained it very well. Thank you, John 👍👍

[@NTFAQGuy]

Great to hear!

[@IAMGregEVA]

That's the ticket John, thanks for addressing this topic in under 15 minutes. It makes it digestible for a far wider audience who are just looking to spin up some VMs and get started on Azure. (Maybe think about getting a wireless Lavalier mic if your employer pays for it - it would make your great videos even better)

[@NTFAQGuy]

This is all my own equipment and played with a wireless mic before and wasn’t great. I’m playing around with mic position. Oh well. Can’t be perfect.

[@IAMGregEVA]

No you can't - it's already great quality mate, thanks a lot for taking the time to share. It's very helpful to help us all move forward together.

[@jeffrlynch]

Another great video, very informative! Looking forward to seeing more!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Awesome, thank you!

[@harishmathanan3596]

Another insightful video, loving these. Thank you John. 👍👍👍

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

[@LiveLife378]

Thank you so much for all your videos and great explanation. Your time and passion is greatly appreciated.

[@NTFAQGuy]

You are very welcome

[@laxminarayanarora4670]

Eagerly waiting for another video ! Thank you

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

[@mohammedkasim21]

Thank You for quick and easy explanation.

[@NTFAQGuy]

My pleasure!

[@DeepanIgnaatious]

Your deep dive whiteboard session is good. Request you to do one about app services and related network integration

[@NTFAQGuy]

that will be a while, i have a list of other things to do first but eventually :)

[@hurrdurr4828]

Just so awesome! Cleared up tons. One question. Local storage vs remote storing was to some extent confusing. Is virtual machines not using local storage as virtualised storage portion of that? Since you talk about remote

[@NTFAQGuy]

Local storage is the temp areas on the host.

[@Techpeasy]

Thanks for the splendid explanation!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joemcgowan7554]

Great video. How is the size of the C:\ drive determined for each size of VM? Is this done during VM creation? I just need to deploy some general purpose VM’s for Dev/Test with 4 vCPU, 8/16 GB ram, and 100-150 GB C:\ drives.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Based on size of the image vm created from

[@wajay2006]

Thank you John for the informative video. Please can you also help me on which VM type we should select for Relation db, Big data, App Server , Web Server. What is the criteria for this selection.

[@NTFAQGuy]

You need to understand what resource it commonly bottlenecks on. Db is likely memory, app could be balanced etc

[@muralis4508]

This is excellent video on VM sizes

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you

[@Maphew69]

succinct and clear John. Thank you

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you!

[@bahrammaleki411]

Deep dive into VM size 👏👏👏

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thanks!

[@yvanthepcgamer7993]

Quick question. I'm looking into also taking the Azure path. With which cert do i start? the Azure Administrator? Certs i got are A+ Network + Server 2K12, and 2K16, Linux +.

[@NTFAQGuy]

I would do the fundamentals first then maybe admin.

[@yvanthepcgamer7993]

@@NTFAQGuy Alright thank you

[@albertkwan4261]

Well done🎉

[@maxsnts]

Well, this could be simpler if the letters related to the type... C=compute/cpu, M=Memory, S=Storage, G=gpu ... but nooo! lets confuse people lol

[@NTFAQGuy]

lol, well G stands for Godzilla if that helps :-D

[@PraneethAkkaraju]

Great video, I think you missed out G series.

[@NTFAQGuy]

maybe :-) point was different optimizations. they change all the time.