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Virtual Machine sizes are limited to region and account age. - ✔✔
Each region has a limitation of 10 for vCPU's - ✔✔
gen1 vs gen2 Virtual machines - ✔✔No cost difference between the options.
Gen1 supports disk encryption . Gen2 supports more disk space and has faster
boot .
Data on temporary disk and public IP is lost during redeployment and retained
during restart. Redeployment also deploys VM on a new host . - ✔✔
Unmanaged vs managed disks - ✔✔You manage a storage blob service in a
unmnanaged disk. Managed disk are managed by Azure. You cant have both
managed and unmanaged disks .
Storage for underlying unmanaged disk must be premium type & General V1 or
V2 - ✔✔
Server-side disk encryption is automatic for data at rest for managed disks - ✔✔
Disk tiers determine IOPS and throughput. - ✔✔P1-4: tp
P6: tp
P10: 500/100tp
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,Azure shared disk - ✔✔Multiple VM can use 1 disk. Only available for premium
and Ultra disks.
VM Custom Script Extensions pre - download and run scripts on VM's. Cannot
run scripts with reboots. - ✔✔
Azure confidential computing reserves CPU hardware for sensitive data and
code. Only compatible with DCsv2 - VM series - ✔✔
Azure backup used to backup VM disks to Azure backup vault. The vault and
backup service should be in the same region Each backup is a recovery point
that can be used for file , disk , vm recovery. - ✔✔
Steps required to delete Azure backup vault - ✔✔-stop backups
-remove existing backups
Steps to backup with MARS Backup agent - ✔✔-Download the agent to VM
-Register the VM to backup vault with credentials
Agent needs to be installed to restore from backup and take backups.
Requirements for Site Recovery/ Disaster Recovery - ✔✔Disaster Recovery
provides fast recovery.
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, - Storage account / cache storage for primary region. Site Mobility extension to
VMs in primary region will cache changes.
-Secondary region will create a resource group , virtual network , storage
account for unmanaged disks. Availability set and zones services are also
created to secondary region
You need to remove VM associated to a availability set to enable the removal of
availability set . - ✔✔
Availablity zone vs availability set - ✔✔Availability zone has VM's spread across
multiple zones. Availability set has VM's spread across one availability set.
Steps for custom VM image - ✔✔Destroys the running VM instance.
-Run sysprep on VM.
-Stop the VM
-Capture image through VM
Resizing a virtual machine will automatically restart a VM. - ✔✔
Azure disk encryption uses a azure key vault for a encryption key .
encrypt command : Az vm encryption - ✔✔
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