Suggestion on Azure VM series

Priyanka Shedge 21 Reputation points
2020-07-30T07:50:07.69+00:00

Hi Team,

We are planning to install Automation anywhere A2019 on azure VM server which has 2 components i.e. Control Room (CR) and SQL server

Physical hardware requirements for the same are -
Processor - 12 core Intel Xeon Processor (8 CR + 4 SQL)
RAM - 24 GB (16 CR + 8 SQL)
Storage - 500GB minimum.

Could you please suggest few series which we can consider for our installation. Also please consider all the 3 criteria when suggesting series.

Regards,
Priyanka Shedge

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  1. Didier3001 991 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-07-30T09:43:31.58+00:00

    Hi @Priyanka Shedge

    For relational database, I would generally go for VMs that are optimized for memory such as:
    Esv3, Ev3, Easv4, Eav4, Ev4, Esv4, Edv4, Edsv4, Mv2, M, DSv2, Dv2

    For which Azure Region do you need that VMs?
    Are you sure that most (~80%) of the CPU and memory will be used?
    Do you know that you can also change the VM family or size at any time without any migration?

    --I hope this helps. Please Accept it as an answer and "Up-Vote" the answer or message(s) that helped you so that it can help others in the community looking for help on similar topics

    Regards,
    Didier

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  1. Andreas Baumgarten 108K Reputation points MVP
    2020-07-30T16:38:40.613+00:00

    You can check the availability of Azure services and VM series on this website (it's possible to filter the regions, current filter is East US and East US 2):

    Products available by region

    At the beginning starting with the same number of vCPU as the core requirement is an option. As didier3001 mentioned: It's possible to resize the VM without a problem . There are only some requirements:

    • The VM will restart if resized
    • The new selected VM SKU should support the number of attached disks (for instance if you are running a Standard_E16_v3 (max disks = 32) with 10 disks it's possible to downsize to Standard_E8_v3 (max disks 16) but not to Standard_E4_v3 (max disks 8))

    Maybe this is helpful.

    Regards

    Andreas Baumgarten

    (Please don't forget to Accept as answer if the reply is helpful)

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