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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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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Many OS we can choose to use from Windows OS to Linux Distributions. Also we can scale up the VMs easily and just a short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

There are some changes still need to restart VMs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sometimes we need to perform huge tasks so Azure VM can handle it successfully than local PC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Overall would give Azure Virtual Machines an average rating. Nothing special here and will definitely be upgrading in the next few months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Overall interference can be hard to navigate and is not super user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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The best part about Azure Virtual Machines is that it is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Sometimes it takes awhile to load certain features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I haven't encountered any business problems yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vlad D.
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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

A lot of services available for users. You can create everithing from Virtual Machines to Serverless functions in several clicks. Readable documentation, good powershell module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

UI is not very fast, so you`d better use Powershell. Support is a bit slow, sometimes you able to find silution by yourself while they are thinking on your question Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We moved our program products from legacy hardware in datacenter to cloud, Now we don`t need to care about outdated hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Speed of deployment and ability to scale wuickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Need to have people with specific platform expertise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ability to be agile and scale quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

The ability to manage virtual servers in the cloud is the best part for us. We can also replicated our critical services there to have on stand by in case we have a critical outage on site. It is nice to know we have those for fail over purposes. If we were to have a disaster such as a long term outage or our data center gets taken out by a storm or other disaster, we can be back up and running quickly on their off site cloud infrastructure. We can also keep things synced with our software we use to make sure the Azure virtual server are up to date to a reasonable point in time so as not to have a significant difference in our data on our on site servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

It is a bit confusing to navigate until you figure out where things are located. And since we are a vmware shop, we have to do some learning about Hyper-V although as I understand it, they have a solution where they can manage it at Microsoft with little interaction on the customers side, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Sign up for the 30-day free trial. Watch some online videos to learn and read some how to documents. We followed along with the videos and tested those things in the trial version. YouTube has a lot of good tutorials as does other sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Disaster Recovery via replicating our servers to the cloud. Sync of Active Directory. Dir Sync to sync user accounts over to Office 365. Allowing our Office 365 users to have a self service self password reset solution. We operate a mixed environment. Exchange in house for employees and Office 365 for our students as we are a university user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Few clicks and servers are ready in a few minutes. Cost effective, don't have to manage monitoring as you will get the alert as per your requirements.Never have any performance issues, boosts the performance as per your needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The on-premise backup and restoration. Disk encryption for critical apps/data. Cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Manual setup is tedious but once spun up, environments are stable.

Tip: Once you've finished manually setting up the environment, document the process and script the environment. You'll be happy you did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our organization is working on a hybrid solution to allow us to remove in-office, legacy hardware and software solutions, out of our office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

It's absurdly easy to set up extremely powerful web infrastructure for your application. You can have a web app set up and deployed in minutes if you know what you want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

Azure is less affordable than AWS in my experience, and is optimized for Windows development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

This is the platform to use if you have smaller Enterprise systems to maintain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We host all of our windows infrastructure on azure now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

I actually used Azure virtual machines to run large Excel files that were crashing my local machine. It was great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The service tiers are designed primarily around server-related tasks, so for my own purposes, I could never find quite the right tier to provision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Use a storage account so that your data is preserved while the machine is paused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Excel files were crashing my local machine, so I needed a better way to execute my formulas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Virtual Machines?

Microsoft have gone out of their way to simplify the process of creating and managing cloud assets in Azure. They do not push you down one particular way of doing things either; they let you do it your way. If you want to create or manage resources through the portal, the .NET API, PowerShell, REST, etc. it is up to you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Virtual Machines?

The blades in the Azure portal are a novel idea but they do get cumbersome at times. They are also a little buggy. If I want to delete a resource, I right click on it in the list, and a new blade pops up with the resource's properties. I need to scroll back to the previous blade and right click it again for the context menu to actually display. Very annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Virtual Machines:

Try doing some online training course - it will take you a long way to mastering it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I used Azure to successfully move a processor-intensive desktop application to cloud VMs, allowing me to offload the work to the cloud. The Azure Batch API allows me to easily create a pool of cloud computing nodes, upload data and binaries, execute workflows and download the outputs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.