 Hi there and welcome to another edition of Tuesdays with Corey. I'm here with Megan Who's going to walk us through an awesome new capability that we've got in the platform called low priority? Virtual machines, and we're doing it in a very very vibrant environment where people are coming and going very quickly And so it's very reminiscent of what happens with low priority VMs. That is true How about that tell us a little bit about what these are and what you're gonna show us So low priority VMs are actually on our scale set offering So it's basically the skill sets that you know and love but you can now actually deploy it with this priority flag So when you exactly so when you set the priority to low What actually happens is you get these VMs at an 80% discount up to 80% So this is a fixed price of your on-demand cost However, of course there is a but and that is that they're actually allocated on any spare access capacity that we have on the Azure platform and so if we ever actually need that capacity back That's when we'll actually go and you pick these low priority VMs And so there's no SLA attached to these VMs at any point in time. We can say oh, we actually need that capacity We're gonna pull the plug on your low. Got it. Got it So yeah, and so the so the capacity is things like like we put aside a special amount of space for if a Like a rack fails or something We'll move people to a new rack and that's when we'll evict people because we basically need to take that space back Exactly, so no service healing for these Yep, so you got to run specific workloads on something like this Like you wouldn't necessarily run like a sequel server and Oracle DV or anything like this because it's gonna randomly go away sometimes It's like jobs. Maybe something exactly or anything that's fault tolerant anything That's resilient anything that can actually handle interruptions are really good options for low priority if you want to save on those costs Got it. So it's they're sort of like commercial level VMs versus TV shows Is that good good good commercials? I guess they don't end up properly, but they're short just just let's go to the demo I feel like I've I've I should stop speaking. We need to do these more often. I'm really rusty. This is pretty pretty bad So here you can actually see the virtual machine skill sets. We now have a new column in the portal Oh, look at that priority. So you can actually see which ones are low and regular well We have a high priority at something. I don't don't reveal anything So we're looking to see how we can actually enhance the offering right now Okay, we'll see regular regular regular. Okay. We're looking for feedback. Okay. Got it And so then whenever you actually get to this create bar here, you can actually see there's this new deploy as low priority Here we can actually click yes, and now we actually have an eviction policy So this means that whenever your VMs are actually being evicted you can either set the eviction policy to stop Deallocate so you maintain your discs or just delete it You can just delete it and so if you don't want to save if you want to actually redeploy That's when it's nice to have the disc But if you just want to pull the plug you don't want any additional costs of your discs just delete That's cool It's really nice and on the delete offering actually works really well with auto scale because you can enable auto scale on this And so that way Auto scale will always try to reallocate those VMs on your behalf So you actually don't have to go and test every single one try to redeploy so it's kind of nice So you get evicted you may get restarted pretty quickly once the space gets available exactly And so we also have an interesting offering great years of experience Wow, yeah, and so you can even see here, too I'm the overview of your VM so you can see the priorities low You can also come down to see your actual Instances so you can see like I'm already up to instance 19 So I've been evicted a lot Yep, and so here we're actually we can actually come down to the properties and you can actually see here's my eviction state Is that delete my eviction policy? I see so that's why the numbers are going up because every time you okay Okay, I've got a scale on and you got our scale on your auto scale set to four That's why but you're still running for them. Okay, okay The other really cool offering that we have is that you can potentially hook up to scale sets under one standard load bouncer Yes, so you can have one regular scale set and one low priority scale set So you could imagine something like a web farm where you can have like two VMs no matter what that's on your regular scale set But then you can always try to scale up your low priority if you need to and so that way you will always have VMs But you can actually save on cost by scaling up the low pry whenever you need you make sure that your minimum line is met by Standard VMs, which will never go away But then you can basically take your burst up and sometimes you may end up not being able to handle all the burst But you'll always hit that minimum line So and so then you so basically you can put these together and do we have like templates that help people can put Yeah, so we've already got templates available and you can set auto schooling auto scaling rules on both So you can try to scale up your low priority first if you can't do that It will go fall back to your regular scale set So it's actually really nice so you can actually see on the standard load bouncer. You can see the NAT rules So it's actually really kind of cool. That is really cool. Yes, so you can see I've got all of my scale Here's a standard load bouncer for this. Yes, this is the standard load bouncer the new skill Got it because it spans across multiple VMSS. Yes. Oh got it. Okay, so we've already got sometimes I do know things despite what you say Rick No, so we've already got pricing updated so you can easily see what's my low priority price versus the pay-as-you-go price So people so now people don't have to guess right they don't have to bid It's up to an 80% discount just based on the on-demand and this is super cheap So if you you can take advantage of this you could really run for a very very little amount from compared to what you Stuff to run. Exactly. Wow, and this is available on VM skillsets today as well as batch Okay, so and so this is preview today Okay, okay, and g8 on batch. Okay, so we've got documentation up and running so Give us feedback and do we have and I know I'm not supposed to ask this the timeline for GA We don't know yet. We're still getting feedback. We're still getting feedback. Yeah, so I tried to sneak it out of her guys I tried I tried okay. Well very cool. So wow, so that's really really cool So great user experience. You can go and you can get this set up with standard load balancer Which we just also shipped right you can now bring this together between a sort of a standard and a low priority I'm sorry. Was it standard priority regular regular priority. Thank you It's sort of like soda soda sizes regular soda. Yeah and I'm looking for the jumbo size, but That's m-series and so you can put these together and you can basically take advantage of this without necessarily putting it Rest your sight. How very cool is that? And so coming soon, too We're also gonna have notifications and so whenever your VMs are actually evicted will give you a 30 second heads up It's through our scheduled events offering. So it's going to be in VM notifications So that way you can do whatever cleanup jobs anything you want So that's actually coming very soon through the through IMDS through the in in VM notification system of which we Have a show coming at some point. We've recorded one it went sideways. So we'll have to record it anyway It's fine. It's not your fault I won't say who's fault it is. Awesome. Thank you Megan. Yeah, sure thing. This is very cool Thank you for joining me on the show and I hope to have you back for more VMSS fun in the future. That sounds great Yeah, thank you and thank you so much if you have any questions for us hit us up at hashtag Azure TWC That's Tuesdays with Corey you can ask questions of me or Megan or Rick or really anyone So we'll do our best to answer. 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