Virtual Machine Planning Start with the Network Name the VM Location for th VM Determine the Size of VM Understand the pricing model Consider the Storage type Choose and operating System
Virtual Machine Types
Virtual Disk Premium SSD [Best for Production and Performance workloads] Premium SSD 2 [Best for Production and Performance workload which needs high IOPS throughput] Standard SSD [Best for Web Server , light used enterprise application and dev/test] Standard HDD [Best for Backup, non-critical and infrequent access] Ultra Disk [Best disk for IO- intensive workload such as SAP HANA, top tier database (SQL, Oracle) and other heavy workloads