Fail-Safe Provisioning On Azure: Leveraging Secondary VM Configuration Support
Citrix News, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
MCS has introduced a new capability to have a backup configuration, ensuring a seamless fallback in the event of capacity-related or spot unavailability issues.
This backup configuration would be triggered in the following scenarios:
1. When the available cores for a particular Service Offering in a region are lower than what you have requested, it can lead to power operation failures.
2. MCS now offers Azure Spot VM provisioning, allowing you to take advantage of unused capacity at significant cost saving. When Spot VMs are currently unavailable for the current ServiceOffering or the Spot price rises beyond what is specified as the max price in a billing profile, the VM can fail to Power On.
In this blog post, I will show you how to set up a backup configuration and outline the prerequisites for choosing the appropriate backup VM size.