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tag: Virtual-Machines · 3 items

Plan Azure VMSS Automatic Zone Balance reaches GA
2026-10-16 · Azure Updates · source ↗ #azure#availability#virtual-machines
  • Platform/SRE — Plan: New GA Azure VMSS capability that passively redistributes VM instances across availability zones to prevent zonal skew; assess whether existing VMSS deployments should enable it this quarter to improve resilience without manual rebalancing.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Skip
  • Signals: GA announcement
Learn archived Azure Mdsv4/Msv4 Memory-Optimized VMs for SAP Now in Preview
2026-09-19 · Azure Updates · source ↗ #azure#virtual-machines#sap
  • Platform/SRE — Learn: Pre-GA SAP-focused VM series worth tracking for future memory-intensive workload sizing, but no action until GA.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Skip
  • Signals: pre-GA (alpha/beta/RC/preview)
Plan archived Azure VM vCore Customization GA: Disable SMT and Constrained Cores
2026-08-20 · Azure Updates · source ↗ #azure#virtual-machines#compute
  • Platform/SRE — Plan: Now GA, these features let you right-size compute for workloads needing predictable single-threaded performance (e.g. licensed-per-core DBs) or reduced licensing costs; evaluate whether any production node pools or VM fleets would benefit from constrained-core configurations this quarter.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Plan: Constrained Cores can reduce per-core software licensing costs on Azure VMs; evaluate whether standardizing on constrained-core SKUs in the next planning cycle would yield material savings for licensed-per-core workloads.
  • Signals: GA announcement