{"id":233,"date":"2017-09-12T22:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2017-09-12T22:06:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:06:17","slug":"azure-b-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/staging2\/azure-b-series\/","title":{"rendered":"B-Series Azure VM&#8217;s Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-235 size-full\" title=\"Azure VM B-Series\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/AzureVM.png\" alt=\"AzureVM\" width=\"272\" height=\"202\" \/>I took some time off to chase fish on Lake Minnetonka this week and missed Microsoft&#8217;s announcement of Azure B-Series are now in preview. \u00a0The fish were not cooperating so I&#8217;m posting about Azure instead. \u00a0The B-Series VM significance is \u00a0their ability to &#8220;bank&#8221; CPU credits during time of low CPU usage and to use these credits during CPU spikes. \u00a0This will be helpful for test servers that may be idle during off hours or applications servers that have bursty work loads. \u00a0Any opportunity to save money without impacting performance is good news to my ears.<\/p>\n<p>Next, maybe dynamic RAM allocation???<\/p>\n<p>LINK:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/windows\/sizes-general\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/windows\/sizes-general<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took some time off to chase fish on Lake Minnetonka this week and missed Microsoft&#8217;s announcement of Azure B-Series are now in preview. \u00a0The fish were not cooperating so I&#8217;m posting about Azure instead. \u00a0The B-Series VM significance is \u00a0their ability to &#8220;bank&#8221; CPU credits during time of low CPU usage and to use &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciraltos.com\/staging2\/azure-b-series\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B-Series Azure VM&#8217;s Now Available<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,134,11,135,27,26],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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