{"id":2707,"date":"2018-04-19T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2018-04-19T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:50:50","slug":"enseva-azure-linux-virtual-machine-instance-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Enseva Azure Linux Virtual Machine Instance Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, all Enseva Azure subscriptions have received updated copies of both Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Debian 9.4 templates. With these updates also bring the unification of all instances now being Hyper-V Gen2 instances, which will bring consistency throughout your cloud environment but also some other advantages as well.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s special about Gen2 Instances?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Boot from SCSI Virtual Disk Drive<\/strong><br \/>\nAll connected devices are now done by a virtual SCSI adapter.\u00a0 In Gen1 instances, the boot device was always a legacy IDE adapter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secure Boot<\/strong><br \/>\nThis feature helps prevent unauthorized firmware or UEFI drives from running at boot time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fast Boot Time<\/strong><br \/>\nTests have shown Gen2 instances to boot about 20% faster.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fewer Devices<\/strong><br \/>\nSince support for emulated legacy IDE and network devices is no longer required, these have been removed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extended Limits<\/strong><br \/>\nGen2 instances introduce support for larger deployments (more CPU, more memory) which open the door for support new and extended hardware profile options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, all Enseva Azure subscriptions have received updated copies of both Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Debian 9.4 templates. With these updates also bring the unification of all instances now being Hyper-V Gen2 instances, which will bring consistency throughout your cloud environment but also some other advantages as well. What&#8217;s special about Gen2 Instances? Boot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}