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Creating a Capacity Reservation

A Capacity Reservation is created from within the Azure Management Portal and includes all the details of the capacity you want to reserve. For example, let’s suppose that Blacken White Solicitors want to reserve capacity for 4 x D2as_v4 virtual…

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CAPACITY RESERVATIONS

Capacity Reservations are a way of reserving virtual machine capacity in a particular Azure data center, and have been generally available since March 2022. Also known as On-demand Capacity Reservations, they’re useful when you want to deploy a specific virtual…

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Instance size flexibility

In a similar way to Reserved Instances, there is instance size flexibility within a SUSE Linux Software Plan Type. It all works on a series of ratios which you can find in a freely-downloadable instance size flexibility spreadsheet. Let’s and…

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Purchasing a SUSE Linux Software Plan

When you purchase a SUSE Linux Software Plan you choose the Type (SLES Standard or SLES for HPC Priority, for example), the VM size (1-2, 3-4, or 5+ vCPUs), as well as the usual Reservation attributes: term (1 or 3…

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SUSE Linux Software Plan

An Azure virtual machine running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) may be purchased as an all-inclusive virtual machine or, as with a Windows Server virtual machine, the components may be paid for separately if a customer is willing to make…

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Azure Storage: Reserved Capacity

Azure offers a number of different storage options, but there are just two Storage Reservations available. The first is for Azure Blob Storage (used for storing large amounts of unstructured data) and Azure Data Lake Storage (a set of capabilities…

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Software costs

A Reserved Capacity purchase does not cover the SQL Server software costs of an Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database solution – the most cost-effective way of paying for the software is to take advantage of the Azure…

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vCore size flexibility

vCore size flexibility enables customers to scale up or down within a Performance Tier and Azure region. If Spring Green Grocers make a Reserved Capacity purchase of 16 vCores for Azure SQL Managed Instance at the General Purpose Performance Tier…

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Purchasing Reserved Capacity

Reserved Capacity is the way of making a duration-based commitment to the compute part of an Azure SQL Managed Instance or Azure SQL Database solution. There are 1- and 3-year options to purchase Reserved Capacity with, perhaps not surprisingly, the…

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