CPU

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Each book explains CPU in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Agents (classic) API

  First-generation Foundry Agent Service API, based on threads, messages and runs. It is deprecated, replaced by conversations and responses, and retires on 31 March 2027.

• Workload

  Also called an experience: a Fabric toolset aimed at one job role, e.g. Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence or Power BI. Each keeps its data in OneLake.

• B-series

  Burstable VM family that accumulates CPU credits while running under its baseline and uses them up when it bursts above it.

• Virtual machines

  Infrastructure-as-a-service compute giving complete control of the operating system, making it a fit for lift-and-shift moves and for software relying on OS-level pieces like COM.

• Baseline

  A formally reviewed and approved specification that may afterwards be altered only under formal change control. The word also describes the architecture as it stands today.

Related terms

• Accelerated Networking

  SR-IOV capability that cuts latency, jitter and CPU overhead for VM networking in Azure. HPC VM sizes with RDMA achieve even lower latency.

• Automatic scaling (App Service)

  Rule-free scale-out choice for Premium v2 to v4 App Service plans that adds prewarmed instances according to HTTP traffic. Scaling on a CPU threshold is not possible with it.

• Compute cluster

  Azure Machine Learning compute of several managed CPU or GPU nodes that scales from min_instances to max_instances with each job; set the minimum to 0 and an idle scale-down time so you pay only when jobs are running.

• CPU capacity forecasting

  A System Insights capability, included by default, that forecasts CPU usage based on locally collected performance data.

• D-series

  Family of general-purpose VMs with a balanced ratio of CPU to memory, suited to web servers, enterprise applications and dev/test.

• DTU

  Database Transaction Unit, a single figure combining CPU, memory and I/O, used by the DTU purchasing model for Azure SQL.

• EVC

  vSphere cluster capability that exposes the same baseline CPU features on every host, allowing vMotion between different processor generations from the same vendor. A custom EVC mode can be applied to a cluster or to individual VMs.

• Host data

  Monitoring data about the Hyper-V host side of a virtual machine, including CPU, disk and network metrics, the activity log and boot diagnostics, which is gathered automatically without any agent.