Virtual Machines

Best practices April 28, 2014 1 min read

Basic Tier Virtual Machines

With our latest Microsoft Azure release, we introduced a brand new tier of Virtual Machine sizes called “Basic”.
Best practices May 8, 2014 5 min read

Virtual Machines Best Practices: Single VMs, Temporary Storage and Uploaded Disks

Hello Everyone, I am Drew McDaniel from the Microsoft Azure team working on the Virtual Machines feature and have been working on it since the beginning.
Best practices May 14, 2014 5 min read

Reserved IP addresses for Cloud Services & Virtual Machines

This Blog Post walks through the Reserved IP Feature exerpience with Cloud Services & Virtual Machines.
July 10, 2014 1 min read

Announcing Collaboration with Google and Docker to Support New Open Source Projects on Microsoft Azure

Last month, we announced support for deploying Docker on Azure Virtual Machines, using our extension technology to enable the high-density power of Docker as quickly and easily as possible.
September 22, 2014 4 min read

New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes

This post announces support for new D-Series sizes Virtual Machines for Azure.
October 30, 2014 3 min read

Multiple VM NICs and Network Virtual Appliances in Azure

At TechEd Europe 2014, we announced support for multiple Network Interface (NICs) in Azure VMs, along with several important partnership in bringing Network Virtual Appliances to Azure, notably Citrix Netscaler and Riverbed appliances.
January 8, 2015 3 min read

Largest VM in the Cloud

Today, we’re announcing the release of a new series of VM sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines called the G-series.
February 26, 2015 2 min read

Sunny and Swarmy in Azure

Today, I’m excited to announce that we are joining Docker, Inc.
March 5, 2015 2 min read

New A10/A11 Azure Compute Sizes

Today, we’re announcing support for two new compute-intensive sizes: A10 and A11.
March 25, 2015 2 min read

Azure VM OS drive limit has octupled!

I’m pleased to announce the maximum OS drive has been increased by a factor of 8 to 1023 GB.
Best practices April 7, 2015 5 min read

Service Healing – Auto-recovery of Virtual Machines

In this blog post we will take a look at the mechanism of service healing/auto-recovery in Azure when a failure does occur.
April 16, 2015 1 min read

Docker Client for Windows is Now Available

As a part of our partnership, Microsoft has worked with the Docker community to port the Docker client to Windows, making it easy to manage Docker hosts and containers for those using Windows as their development machines.

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