Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible
Orchestration is now generally available.
Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets enables you to
increase scaling performance by creating a pool of pre-provisioned virtual
machines. The virtual machines in the standby pool complete all post
provisioning processes such as installing applications, downloading data
packages, etc. Once the virtual machines have been fully provisioned, they can
be maintained in a running or a stopped (deallocated) state. When your scale
set requires more instances, the instances in the standby pool are automatically
moved into the scale set. A standby pool significantly reduces the time it
takes to scale out a Virtual Machine Scale Set.
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