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CHANGE is the New Standard for the Cloud Adoption

What are the standards we should follow when we move on to Public Cloud?

We often get this questions during the Public Cloud conversations with different stakeholders. I would say ‘Change’ should be standard. Ahh…What?

  • Be ready to accept a Change
  • Be ready to execute a Change.
  • Be ready to prepare for future Changes.

The change should start from the minds of people. That means develop a mindset to accept a change is the first thing in the transformation journey. It is the first barrier as we know that each of us are comfortable to continue with existing system because change will bring interruptions, nobody like interruptions.

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All About Azure Reservation – Disks

We talked about Azure Reservation for VM in my previous blog post. If you have not read it already, I suggest you to read it.

The VM RI discounts applicable only to the VM infrastructure cost but it does not include disks or storage used. Azure Disk Storage reservations combined with Azure reserved VM instances help you reduce total VM cost.

The common rules are applicable here as well “Use it or Lose it”,

Currently, Azure Disk Storage reservations are available only for selected Azure premium SSD SKUs. But it doesn’t apply to unmanaged, ultra disks and page blob consumption.

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The reservation for disk is not based on capacity but it is based on total number of disks per SKU. That means you make reservation consumption based on the units of the disk SKUs instead of the provided size. Example, you cannot use P40 reservation for 2 P30 disks. It is does not have instance flexibility like in VM reservations.

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