From NetApp, Availability of Elastigroup for Microsoft Azure Spot VMs

NetApp, Inc. announced the availability of Elastigroup for Microsoft Azure Spot VMs.

The company recently acquired Spot, a cloud compute management and cost optimization company whose suite of tools includes Elastigroup.

Elastigroup from Spot by NetApp simplifies and automates compute infrastructure provisioning and autoscaling while allowing cloud consumers to reduce their compute spending by up to 90%, along with providing HA. It offers these benefits by reliably harnessing cloud providers’ excess compute capacity. Until now, it supported Azure’s low-priority VMs, but is offering full support of Azure Spot VMs. This support helps Azure customers enjoy cost savings coupled with the enterprise SLA of Spot by NetApp.

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Elastigroup makes it easier to use multiple instance types and sizes within a single cluster for enhanced performance at scale. And built-in blue/green capabilities help customers perform easier upgrades of their clusters and continuous delivery pipelines.

“Until now, Microsoft Azure customers who wanted to use Spot VMs needed to choose workloads that were noncontinuous and not bound to specific time frames,” noted Amiram Shachar, VP and GM, Spot by NetApp. “Supporting Azure Spot VMs broadens NetApp’s collaboration with Microsoft Azure, building upon previous successes such as Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure, and Cloud Insights. We are looking forward to further strengthening our collaboration with Azure to the mutual benefit of all our customers.“

The company is focused on building solutions around Azure products and services, such as Elastigroup for Azure Spot VMs and Azure NetApp Files.

“Elastigroup has been key to keeping our cloud infrastructure management at a minimum while cutting our compute costs,” said Yoni Eini, CTO and co-founder, Upsolver. “As we increase our Azure footprint, Elastigroup will be our go-to solution for running a wide range of workloads on Azure Spot VMs.“

Benefits of Elastigroup

Spot by NetApp offers an enterprise availability SLA for fault-sensitive workloads such as web applications, microservices running behind a load balancer or application gateway, HPC workloads, and Hadoop and Spark workloads.
Blending of optimal pricing options within a single cluster.
Elastigroup offers automated fallback to pay-as-you-go and back to Spot VMs as appropriate.
Heterogenous VM scaling for any VM type and size with Elastigroup automatically scaling the desired VMs without the need for creating an Azure VM Scale Set per instance type and size.
Load balancers and application gateways are automatically updated to drain HTTP connections, and to register and de-register nodes as needed.
For enhanced continuous delivery with hassle-free blue/green deployments, Elastigroup replaces and upgrades application versions, ensuring an extra level of HA for workloads.
With cron-based scheduling, pay only for the resources needed, so teams can schedule on/off hours for their cloud compute infrastructure.

Resource:
Blog: Azure Spot VMs – How to enjoy their massive cost savings without suffering any interruptions

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