Monat: Februar 2019

Reserved instances now applicable to classic VMs, cloud services, and Dev/Test subscriptions

Expanding reserved instances discounts to classic virtual machines, Azure Cloud Services, and Dev/Test subscriptions

Today, we are excited to announce two new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.

Since launch, we have continued to add multiple features such as instance size flexibility, RIs for US Government regions, purchase recommendations, and RIs in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) channel. We have also extended the capability to provide reservation discounts on SQL Databases and Cosmos DB.

Features that we are launching today:

1. Classic VMs and Cloud Services users can now benefit from the RI discounts

RIs with the instance size flexibility option enabled will now apply the discount to both classic VMs and cloud services. For cloud services, the reservation discount applies only to the compute cost. When the reservation discount is applied to cloud services, the usage charges will be split into compute charges (Linux meter) and a cloud services charges (cloud services management meter). Learn how the reservation discount applies to Cloud Services.

2. Enterprise Dev/Test and Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test subscriptions can now benefit from the RI discounts

Newly purchased RIs or existing RIs can now be applied to your Dev/Test subscriptions. VM usage on Dev/Test subscriptions will be automatically eligible for the RI discount and all existing reservations with shared scope will be updated to apply discounts to Dev/Test subscriptions.

Next steps

Visit FAQs on reservation page.
Read the documentation, “What are Azure Reservations?” to learn more.

Quelle: Azure

Configure resource group control for your Azure DevTest Lab

As a lab owner, you now have the option to configure all your lab virtual machines (VMs) to be created in a single resource group. This helps prevent you from reaching resource group limits on your Microsoft Azure subscription. The feature will also help by enabling you to consolidate all your lab resources within a single resource group. In result this will simplify tracking those resources and applying policies to manage them at the resource group level. This article will discuss improving governance of your development and test environments by using Azure polices that you can apply at the resource group level.

This feature allows you to use a script to either specify a new or existing resource group within your Azure subscription for all your lab VMs to be created in. It is important to note that currently we support this feature through an API, however we will soon be adding an in-product experience for you to configure this setting for your lab.

Now let’s walk through the options you have as a lab owner while using this API:

You can choose the lab’s resource group for all VMs to be created in going forward.
You can choose an existing resource group other than the lab's resource group for all VMs to be created in going forward.
You can enter a new resource group name for all VMs to be created in going forward.
You can also continue with the existing behavior.

This setting will apply to new VMs created in the lab. This means older VMs in your lab that are created in their own resource groups will continue to remain unaffected. However, you can migrate these VMs from their individual resource groups to the common resource group you selected initially, allowing all your lab VMs to be in one common resource group going forward. You can learn more about migrating resources across resource groups by visiting our documentation, “Move resources to new resource group or subscription.” ARM environments created in your lab will continue to remain in their own resource groups and will not be affected by any option you select while working with this API.

You can also learn more about how to use this API along with an example script by visiting our documentation, “About Azure DevTest Labs.” We hope you find this feature useful!

Got an idea to make it work better for you? Submit your feedback and ideas, or vote for others at Azure DevTest Labs UserVoice forum. Have a question? Check out the answers or ask a new one at our MSDN forum.
Quelle: Azure