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Sizing Considerations
Sizing Considerations
When deciding on sizing for your Azure virtual machines, consider the following:

The size of the VM a ects the pricing and the tier a ects some capabilities.

The A-series VMs can be deployed on various hardware types and processors. The size
is throttled, based on the hardware, to o er consistent processor performance for the
running instance, regardless of the hardware it is deployed on.

The D-series VMs are designed to run applications that demand higher compute power
and temporary disk performance. D-series VMs provide faster processors, a higher
memory-to-core ratio, and a solid-state drive (SSD) for the temporary disk.

Some of the physical hosts in the Azure data centers may not support larger virtual
machine sizes, such as A5 to A11. If that happens you may get an error message such
as Failed to con gure virtual machine or Failed to create virtual machine.

For more information, you can see:

Sizes for Cloud Services - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-services/cloud-

services-sizes-specs

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