Microsoft Brings Arm Support To Azure Virtual Machines (zdnet.com) 16
It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. ZDNet reports: Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere announced last year it had signed up Microsoft and Tencent Holdings as major customers. "We are now supporting Arm on Azure as well. This has been a long journey to bring up Ampere on Azure with Windows as the Root Host OS! we are also supporting Windows 11 Arm VMs in preview for developers!" tweeted Hari Pulapaka, the director of PM for Azure Host OS and the Windows OS platform. "FYI all Windows developers who have been asking for VM support in Azure, it's here now."
Azure VMs with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors will offer up to 50 percent better price-performance than comparable x86-based VMs for scale-out workloads, Microsoft officials said. These new VMs are also for Web servers, application servers, open-source databases, gaming servers, media servers, and more, they added. The preview is initially available in the West US 2, West Central US, and West Europe Azure regions. Ampere's announcement of the Azure VM preview is here.
Azure VMs with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors will offer up to 50 percent better price-performance than comparable x86-based VMs for scale-out workloads, Microsoft officials said. These new VMs are also for Web servers, application servers, open-source databases, gaming servers, media servers, and more, they added. The preview is initially available in the West US 2, West Central US, and West Europe Azure regions. Ampere's announcement of the Azure VM preview is here.
Sad truth: (Score:2)
Linux boxes end up having less overhead, which means Windows as host or client is going to cost your more money.
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Yup, amazing how people knee-jerk when they hear the words Windows.
There's quite a few versions some suitable for server role. [youtu.be]
Windows is part of "other" (Score:3)
> One could argue that Windows is actually becoming less important to Microsoft
Microsoft reports their revenue across the three categories they use internally:
Azure
O365
Gaming and other
Windows is part of "gaming and other".
Nadella, the chairman and CEO for the last eight years, was head of Azure (and built it from the ground up) before becoming CEO. Ballmer was all about Windows. Nadella was made CEO when they decided to get rid of Ballmer and stop doing the things Ballmer did.
Re: Windows is part of "other" (Score:2)
You cut me open and saw what was inside (Score:3)
"You cut me open and saw what was inside: Windows. Windows. Windows. Windows. Our company was born on the back of Windows. Windows underpins a huge percentage of all of our success, all of our profitability, all of the important things that we do."
- Steve Ballmer
"Windows is the backbone product of Microsoft. Windows PCs, Windows Phones, Windows slates. Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows."
- Steve Ballmer
- Steve Ballmer
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Re: Sad truth: (Score:2)
Azure HCI isn't windows though.
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Win/Lin (Score:2)
NICE! Except too bad they're only supporting Windows and Linux on this thing. There is more to the world of computing than just these two kernels. The BSDs for instance have great Aarch64 support, and have been well supported by VMware's ARM offerings since day-one. They also work on AWS and OCI. Microsoft, gotta step up your support game a little here please!
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Because BSD does not matter in this space at all. Don't miss read that as BSD does not matter, there are plenty of things like IoT where it could be an asset but SAAS, PAAS, IAAS its pointless.
The Kernel/Operating system is basically a portable abstraction layer for the the hypervisor. The kernel exists to provide a program interface, that mirrors the one on your development workstation. The operating system/userspace is a cut-down thing that exists to again provide a handful of very general libraries and
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Microsoft doesn't care about supporting the people who want to run BSD on Azure. Both of you are SOL.
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Arm support? Silly Ms (Score:3)
I'd be more reassured if their server were supported by legs instead: imagine being supported on your arms all day long! Surely they will end up falling and precious data will be lost.
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You misunderstand: this is for the developers, not the servers. While clouds are comfortable to sit on, developers need arm support since they are typing all day.