The scale set mode Microsoft recommends. Standard Azure VMs of different types can be combined, distributed over fault domains or availability zones, with up to 1,000 instances in total.
Also called Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible orchestration.
Read more: Microsoft Learn
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Flexible orchestration in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Set
Secret permission in Key Vault for writing secrets; some older material refers to it as Create.
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- 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.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
- Availability zones
Separate physical datacentre locations inside one region. Placing VMs in at least two of them earns a 99.99% SLA.
Related terms
- Uniform orchestration
A Virtual Machine Scale Sets mode where every instance is the same and they are handled together from a single model. Flexible orchestration, by comparison, permits mixed VM sizes and managing VMs one by one.