You have been told by your Chief Financial Officer to reduce costs

You have been told by your Chief Financial Officer to reduce costs.

You want to implement Azure Spot Virtual Machines to reduce costs.

Which of the following are true regarding Azure Spot Virtual Machines? Choose two.

A) Are supported on B-series, D-series, and E-series

B) Must be manually deleted if evicted

C) Can be evicted based on capacity

D) Have same SLA as regular VMs

E) Can be evicted based on the maximum price that you set.

Explanation

An Azure Spot VM can be evicted based on capacity or the configured maximum price. The availability of an Azure Spot VM depends on the capacity factors such as size, region, or time of day. If capacity is exceeded, the Azure Spot VM is evicted. You can configure an eviction policy to deallocate the VM or delete the VM.

An Azure Spot VM is evicted if the maximum price is less than the current price. If the price for the VM has gone up and is currently greater than the maximum price on the VM, then the VM gets evicted. You are sent a message 30 seconds before eviction to notify you.

An Azure Spot Virtual Machine takes advantage of cost savings with unused capacity but does not offer the same SLA or high availability guarantees of regular VMs.

Azure Spot Virtual Machines are supported on all series except B-series and any promo versions of any size in a series. B-series VMs are low-cost virtual machines.

If an Azure Spot VM is evicted, it is not deleted by default. However, you can configure the eviction policy to delete it when evicted automatically. When an Azure Spot VM is evicted, the underlying storage is deleted, so you are not charged for storage.

 

Objective:

Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements

Sub-Objective:

Describe methods for planning and management of costs

References:

Use Azure Spot Virtual Machines - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs