The following are the
required VM appliance specifications for BlueCat Azure Virtual Appliances as well the recommended VM
sizes.
Table. Virtual appliance requirements
| Virtual appliance model |
vCPUs |
vRAM (GB) |
Storage (GB) |
| BlueCat Address Manager |
16 |
32 |
320 |
| BlueCat DNS for Azure |
2 |
8 |
160 |
Table. Recommended VM sizes for BlueCat Address Manager
| Instance type |
vCPU |
Memory (GiB) |
| Standard_D16s_v3 |
16 |
64 |
| Standard_DS5_v2 |
16 |
56 |
| Standard_F16s |
16 |
32 |
| Standard_F16s_v2 |
16 |
32 |
Table. Recommended VM sizes for BlueCat DNS for Azure
| Instance type |
vCPU |
Memory (GiB) |
| Standard_D2s_v3 |
2 |
8 |
| Standard_DS2_v2 |
2 |
7 |
For detailed information about Azure VM sizes, refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/sizes-general.