Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit with SQL Constrained Core VMs
23-09-2024 13:27Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines are available with specific configurations. A D8 version 5 virtual machine (VM) has 8 virtual processors (vCPU) and 32 GiB memory. You cannot change that. Sometimes – for a specific database scenario – a customer might need a lot of data throughput or memory, but not so much processor power. For that, Microsoft offers ‘Constrained Core VMs’. These are VMs where all the vCPU (and memory, storage, I/O, etc) are available to the operating system, but a limited number of vCPUs are available to the database. How would you license this with Hybrid Benefits? Let us explain (click to keep on reading).