{"id":440060,"date":"2022-04-05T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=440060"},"modified":"2022-04-05T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:52:59","slug":"azure-virtual-machines-get-ampere-altra-arm-based-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/440060-azure-virtual-machines-get-ampere-altra-arm-based-processors.html","title":{"rendered":"Azure Virtual Machines get Ampere Altra Arm-based processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/now-in-preview-azure-virtual-machines-with-ampere-altra-armbased-processors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> a preview of Ampere Altra Arm-based processors within its Azure Virtual Machine (VM) series.<\/p>\n<p>The new Azure VMs are designed to efficiently run scale-out workloads, web servers, application servers, open-source databases, cloud-native and rich .NET applications, Java applications, gaming servers, and media servers.<\/p>\n<p>The new VMs include Dpsv5 and Epsv5 based versions, which promise 50% better price-performance than comparable x86 based VMs.<\/p>\n<p>These Dpsv5 and Epsv5 Ampere Altra Arm-based processors operate at up to 3.0GHz and provide up to 64 virtual CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>The new VMs offer sizes with 2GiB, 4GiB, and 8GiB memory per vCPU, up to 40 Gbps networking and optional high-performance local SSD storage.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 11 Professional\/Enterprise Edition, Ubuntu Linux, and CentOS are currently supported on the preview, with support for additional systems in development.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also introducing the Dpldsv5 VM-series, which will offer 2GiB per vCPU and a combination of vCPUs, memory and local storage to cost-effectively run workloads requiring less significant amounts of RAM per vCPU.<\/p>\n<p>Standard and premium SSDs, and standard HDDs can be added to any previewed VMs, and Ultra Disk storage support will soon be added.<\/p>\n<p>The Dpsv5, Dplsv5, and Epsv5 VM-series also offer lower-priced options with no temporary storage.<\/p>\n<p>Spot Virtual Machines are available. However, Microsoft will only provide Azure Reserved VM Instances pricing once the VMs are generally available.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of the VMs will vary based on region.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/440052-south-africas-broadband-prices-versus-the-world-it-doesnt-look-good.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa\u2019s broadband prices versus the world \u2014 it doesn\u2019t look good<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced a preview of its new Azure Virtual Machines, which use Altra Arm-based processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341098,"featured_media":440062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31094,7621,123,967,77692,807],"class_list":["post-440060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-azure","tag-centos","tag-microsoft","tag-ubuntu","tag-virtual-machines","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440066,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440060\/revisions\/440066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}