{"id":13088,"date":"2020-12-03T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2020-12-03T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:50:10","slug":"microsoft-constrained-vcpu-virtual-machines-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/microsoft-constrained-vcpu-virtual-machines-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Constrained vCPU Virtual Machines available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Effective November 11, 2020, new constrained vCPU capable virtual machines are available from Microsoft. In this type of VM the vCPU count can be constrained to a half or a quarter of the original VM size. This allows customers to reduce the cost of software licensing, while maintaining the same memory, storage, and I\/O bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For instance, in the E8-4as v4 virtual machine there are 4 active vCPUs and 8 underlying vCPUs, and licensing for SQL Server is constrained to the active vCPU count, with only the operating system cost based on the underlying vCPUs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the announcement, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/updates\/new-constrained-vcpus-capable-vms-now-available\/\">https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/updates\/new-constrained-vcpus-capable-vms-now-available\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For all the VMs of this type, and their pricing, search for &#8220;constrained&#8221; on this page: <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/virtual-machines\/windows\/\">https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/virtual-machines\/windows\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective November 11, 2020, new constrained vCPU capable virtual machines are available from Microsoft. In this type of VM the vCPU count can be constrained to a half or a quarter of the original VM size. This allows customers to reduce the cost of software licensing, while maintaining the same memory, storage, and I\/O bandwidth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-windows-virtual-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13089,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions\/13089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}