We are
excited to announce the general availability of instance mix, a new feature
designed to optimize your Virtual Machine Scale Set deployments. Instance
mix allows you to specify multiple VM sizes within a single Virtual Machine
Scale Set, providing greater flexibility and cost efficiency. To further
optimize deployments, instance mix allows you to specify an allocation
strategy to optimize for price or capacity.
Key
Features
- Flexible
VM Combinations: Mix and match various VM sizes within a single VMSS to better
align with your workload requirements.
- Capacity-informed deployments:
Optimize for the available capacity in Azure regions/zones with capacity.
Optimized for more confidence that you’ll get the
capacity requested. For cost-sensitive customers who want to still
utilize capacity signals, the lowest. Price allocation strategy
takes both factors into account
- Simplified
Management: Manage a diverse set of VMs in a single scale set, reducing the
complexity of handling multiple scale sets.
- Easily
scale with a mix of VM offerings: When using Spot Priority Mix, customers can
deploy a heterogeneous mix of VM sizes of both Spot and On-Demand pricing in
their scale sets.
- Attain
Capacity: By utilizing a diversified mix of VM sizes, customers can tap
into a greater pool of capacity, increasing their ability to get the
capacity needed.
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