Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Create thousands of identical virtual machines in minutes
Quickly scale your big compute and big data applications
Rely on integrated load balancing and autoscaling
Attach additional data disks as per your application requirement
Deploy virtual machines and updates at scale
Support Linux or Windows images and extensions
Run Cassandra, Cloudera, Hadoop, MongoDB, and Mesos
Deploy across availability zones to protect against datacenter failures

Control it like IaaS, scale it like PaaS

Deploy Virtual Machine Scale Sets using Azure Resource Manager templates—with support for Windows and Linux platform images, as well as custom images and extensions.

Reliably deploy and update at large scale

You can confidently deploy hundreds of identical virtual machines in minutes. With easy updates at scale, focus more on what matters—your application—and less on the infrastructure.

Scale automatically

Integrated with Azure Insights Autoscale, Virtual Machine Scale Sets gives you true autoscaling. There’s no need to pre-provision virtual machines, so you use only the compute resources your application needs at any time.

Simplify networking

Virtual Machine Scale Sets integrate with Azure networking resources such as Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway. Easily spread your workloads across the virtual machines in your Virtual Machine Scale Set, and configure network address translation (NAT) rules to connect to specific virtual machine instances for troubleshooting.

Support hyperscale workloads

Virtual Machine Scale Sets are elastic and designed to support your scale-out workloads—including stateless web front ends, container orchestration, and microservices clusters. Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Service Fabric run on Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

Why trust Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

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