The document discusses updates to Microsoft Azure products including: 1. New larger VM sizes in the B-series with increased CPU usage flexibility and improved performance calculations. 2. Updates to Azure Lab Services including support for GPUs, connecting to on-premises resources, and saving VM images for reuse. 3. Pricing details for Azure Lab Services based on instance size and lab units billed hourly.

1. EP 09: MICROSOFT PRODUCTS
UPDATE
JULY 6, 2019
Speaker Name:
Bird : MVP :
Office Servers & Services
Thanyapon Sananakin
MVP (Microsoft Azure)

2. SELECTED UPDATES FOR MICROSOFT
AZURE
• New VM Size in Azure VM B-Series
• Azure Lab Services updates
• GPU size, saving images and connecting to on-premises resources
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3. NEW VM SIZE IN VM B-SERIES
• Benetifs of VM B-Series
• Larger VM Size
• Flexible CPU Usage
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/updates/larger-b-series-vm-sizes-now-available/

4. NEW VM SIZE IN VM B-SERIES
• How VM Performance Calculations
• Example for B8ms (8vCPU) with Baseline performance = 135%
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Max. VM performance = 100%*8 =800%
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VM performance = 30%*4 =120%
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VM Perf. < Baseline perf. accumulated VM Perf. > Baseline perf. Used Credit

5. NEW VM SIZE IN VM B-SERIES
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• How Credits Calculation ?
• When VM Created, It gets initial credits (Based on VM Size)
• When VM Stopped or re-deploy, It lost credits
• Maximum banked credit applied for each VM size
• Credits accumulated/credits used in an hour
((Base CPU perf of VM - CPU Usage) / 100) * 60 minutes.

6. NEW VM SIZE IN VM B-SERIES
• Workload Example
• Office check-in/out application. The application needs CPU bursts during business hours, but
not a lot of computing power during off hours. In this example, the workload requires a
16vCPU virtual machine with 64GiB of RAM to work efficiently.
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B16 characteristics:
Max CPU perf: 16vCPU * 100% = 1600%
Baseline: 270%
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/b-series-burstable

7. NEW VM SIZE IN VM B-SERIES
• Workload Example (Details)
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Scenario Time CPU usage (%) Credits accumulated1
Credits
available
B16ms Deployment Deployment Deployment 480 (Initial Credits) 480
No traffic 0:00 0 ((270-0)/100)*60=162 642
No traffic 1:00 0 162 804
No traffic 2:00 0 162 966
No traffic 3:00 0 162 1128
No traffic 4:00 0 162 1290
No traffic 5:00 0 162 1452
Low Traffic 6:00 270 0 1452
Employees come to office
(app needs 80% vCPU)
7:00 80% * 16vCPU=1,280 ((270-1280)/100)*60= -606 846

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DEMO
CREATING AND MONITORING B-SERIES
CREDITS

9. LAB SERVICE IN MICROSOFT AZURE
• Lab Service
 Manage Lab (Classroom lab)
 Lab creator, pre-create and configure VM for students.
 All students get same environment
• Dev/Test Lab
 Un-managed lab
 Users can create their own VMs for testing
 Allow administrator to control cost of each users.
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10. AZURE LAB SERVICE UPDATE
• GPU size:
 Support GPU
• Connecting to on-premises resources:
 Lab VM can connect to on-premise network
• Saving an image:
 Allow admins to save a template virtual machine image
 Can be reused during new lab creation.
 Template virtual machine images are saved in the Azure Shared Image Gallery.
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11. AZURE LAB SERVICE UPDATE
• Sending a registration link in email:
 Easily email registration link to all students or send individual emails
• Connecting to Linux machines by using Remote Desktop:
 This feature is available during lab creation.
 Enabling this setting opens a Remote Desktop port on the Linux machines. Teachers
and students can then connect to their machines by using Remote Desktop after
installing RDP and GUI packages on the lab machines.
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12. AZURE LAB SERVICE UPDATE
• Azure Lab Service Cost
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 Instance is a virtual machine, billed on an hourly basis
 Lab Unit is the cost unit that determines the price for each instance size.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/lab-services/

13. AZURE LAB SERVICE UPDATE
• Azure Lab Service Cost
• Example
• Cost calculation for a classroom lab of 50 students using the Small instances for a
semester would be
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50 Students X 40 hours per student (10 hours per week X 4 weeks) X 20 Lab
Units (Small instance size) X $0.01 per hour per Lab Unit = $400/month
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/lab-services/

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DEMO
LAB SERVICE DEMO