General Availability: Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration

Today we are announcing the general availability of standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration. Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets enables you to increase scaling performance by creating a pool of pre-provisioned virtual machines. The virtual machines in the standby pool complete all post provisioning processes…

19/11/2024Azure Compute Blog

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