You need to deploy a cluster of 100 Virtual Machines. The VMs will have different sizes and run different operating systems. You want to manage them as a single logical group, spread them across Availability Zones, and update them in batches. Which compute solution should you recommend?

Answer options:

Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Uniform orchestration.

Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible orchestration.

Availability Sets.

Azure Batch.

How to approach this question

Identify the scale set mode that supports heterogeneous VMs.

Full Answer

B.Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible orchestration.✓ Correct

Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible orchestration.

VM Scale Sets with Flexible orchestration allow you to combine the high availability guarantees of Availability Zones with the ability to manage heterogeneous VMs (different sizes, images) in a single group.

Common mistakes

Choosing Uniform orchestration, which strictly requires identical VMs.

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