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Azure Virtual Machines Overview

What is Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions: development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP.

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Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions: development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP.


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Divyansh T.
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Divyansh T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Virtualized computer with flexible on-demand computing capacity"
The best thing about the Azure Virtual Machines is there's no need to purchase and manage the physical infrastructure and it can support various op...
Dishank R.
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Dishank R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Azure Virtual machine deployment and cost optimization"
Easy to create and deploy Virtual machine cost optimization maintenance done by Azure. Easy to use. Quick creation and deployment of Virtu...
Carlos R.
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Carlos R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure VM are very good as agents for Azure Pipelines, also some of them have nested virtualization"
Azure Virtual Machines are one of the few (and the only ones that I've found) to provide virtual machines with nested virtualization for x86. This ...
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OLUWATOBI ADETUNJI A.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

A friendly interface with easy to understand terminology with ease of integrating with other cloud platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

So far, I enjoy Azure over other cloud platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting public-facing website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Simplicity is the key! Its very easy to start using! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The price is the only downside, if you have big machines, you must have a very large bank account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you dont have to spend at start in expensive hardware, just go for a cloud solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Seem less installation process and easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Limited variations in hardware specifications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Migrating from on-premise to cloud. Significant savings in the cost and fault tolerant ecosystem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

The following are the few features which I like about this product:

- This service offered by Azure is available in various sizes.

- It is very easy to provision & use

- Azure VMs are charged on hourly basis & you need to pay only for the time you use them.

- Strong User community since this offering by Azure is widely used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The following are the few features which I don't like about this product:

- Cost of GPU based Azure Virtual Machines could be very expensive and small startups find it difficult to afford it.

- Additional metrics should be added to track the GPU usage the way we can track CPU usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Azure Virtual Machines primarily for deploying our microservices as docker containers & offer our product to the customers. I also deploy various other softwares on Azure Virtual Machines along with docker containers. It plays the vital role and is the backbone of our product since all the components rely on Azure Virtual Machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

speed, agility, performance, global presence, security and disaster recovery at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

One of the biggest issues that is seen with Azure is a change in the computing power that is available to the business. If you’re moving from on-premise servers to the cloud, you may find that your computing power does not move along with you. To generate the same levels of computing power on this cloud-based platform, you may find that the costs are several thousand dollars more per year than what you’re currently paying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Must go for Azure Virtual Machines as Azure provides Virtual Machines types based on storage, memory, Network, graphics and CPU capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reset your RDP connection.

Verify Network Security Group rules.

Review VM boot diagnostics.

Reset the NIC for the VM.

Check the VM Resource Health.

Reset user credentials.

Restart our VM.

Redeploy our VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

I have generated clusters to support mission-critical databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

I don't like granular provisioning, for load balancing provisioning, monitoring and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Affordable costs, platform flexibility and agile access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure allows infrastructure and virtual machine management from anywhere. Since the product is integrated into Microsoft 365, there is no need to manage separate logins. After a year of using the product very heavily, there have been no outages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

There is a number of features that I would expect in a hosted solution that Azure simply doesn't offer. Some of these are very basic expectations, for instance, there is no ability to open the console of a virtual machine in Azure, you can only connect via RDP. You can view screenshots of the console, but this is my no means equal to viewing the actual console. This makes system upgrades, especially on non Microsoft OSes, more complex than necessary. Additionally, you cannot boot from an ISO in Azure. This severely limits your ability to install and configure non-Microsoft systems. We have also experienced unexplained performance issues on database systems. We have purchased the highest level of virtual hardware, but the systems are still much slower than they should be. Pricing can also be confusing and result in some unexpected charges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Unless you are using strictly Windows systems that will not be running databases, I would strongly consider other options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have eliminated the need to implement and maintain server hardware onsite. Azure also makes it easy to allow access to servers from anywhere in the world for users working remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It is easy to use and set up.

The subscription is charged per hour. You only pay for what you use.

It has a very high disaster recovery rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

I don't have any issues in particular. I am happy with the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploying my apps and files to cloud.

Migrate virtual machines from on-site to cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It acquires a very interesting proportion due to its main features, one of which is the system-independent artificial intelligence, it obviously operates virtually, its disks managed by Azure have excellent read and write operations, highlighting that it maintains stable drafting of each document, each virtual machine is customized in terms of computing, networking, and storage, adapting in a complex manner depending on the system corresponding to the operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

When making customizations, there is a system difficulty that makes it slow, as these systematic modifications can become heavy due to its established capacity in its digital programming. In certain main software options, this can be detrimental because it can alter the daily work routine, making it slow when entering these settings to suit one's own preferences for better work quality. This results in the comfort not being effective in small uses of the service offered, and it is necessary to make a more intuitive reinforcement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

If you want an improvement in your company, for qualities of ease and comfort, to implement new innovative options for different systems with various functionalities, since Azure virtual machines can be your best candidate to integrate your company, as they would achieve a better workflow, with virtual assistance, thanks to the programming of this software, for its artificial intelligence designed to perform your digital work automatically, effectively adapting to your main needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

He plays a very interesting role in our company, as we use this virtual artificial intelligence to create and implement software in our design innovation department, maintaining very important data for new projects, exercising its knowledge obtained mainly from the Web, in subordinate panels for the execution of necessary projects for our convenience or for our loyal, powerful, and demanding clients, taking into account the exact limitations of its operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dilan  R.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Actually I was looking for cloud mainly VPS functions. I compared industry leading VPS service providers and Azure is my final solution. It's great, there are series of VMs; entry level to extreme level performance with multiple choices. I met my all requirements through place. There are major advantages,

- Pricing

- Scalability

- Wide range of performance

- Availability

- Recoverability

- Able to deploy in on-premises

- Load balancing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

There are no difficulties for my, as my experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Highly recommended.

I mostly use Windows products and families with Microsoft family. That's why I prefer Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Virtual Machines solving and how is that benefiting you?

Overall experience is great. Because Azure is well fine-tuned, user friendly service, also service is good. I noticed couple of best features in Azure.

- Azure DevOps

- Virtual Machines

- Azure Cosmos DB

- Azure AD

- API management

- Azure CDN

- Backup service

- Site Recovery

- Load balances

- Azure bots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.