{"id":725,"date":"2016-06-21T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/?p=725"},"modified":"2016-06-21T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:20:12","slug":"microsoft-azure-government-adds-premium-storage-and-expanded-virtual-machine-image-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/microsoft-azure-government-adds-premium-storage-and-expanded-virtual-machine-image-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Government adds Premium Storage and expanded Virtual Machine image coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&lt;Cross posted from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-azure-government-adds-premium-storage-and-expanded-virtual-machine-image-coverage\/\">Azure Blog<\/a>.&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, I am pleased to announce additional functionality for Microsoft Azure Government. In support of key customer requests, and service portfolio expansion, we have added support for Premium Storage and several additional pre-configured Virtual Machine images.\u00a0 Azure Government customers can begin using these features within their applications and services immediately \u2013 from all Azure Government regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Machine Disks \u2013 now with Premium Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Customers now have the option to select Azure Premium Storage when provisioning DS-series virtual machines through <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/2016\/06\/12\/managing-azure-government-subscriptions-with-powershell\/\">PowerShell<\/a> and the Azure CLI. Premium Storage provides high-performance, low-latency disk support for virtual machines running I\/O-intensive workloads. VM disks using Premium Storage store data on solid state drives (SSDs), providing improved performance for the most demanding applications. More information about this functionality is available <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/articles\/storage-premium-storage\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expanded Virtual Machine Image support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Premium Storage, Azure Government has also been expanded to include a number of pre-configured VM images. With these images, customers can quickly provision a VM running pre-installed and configured software. In addition to the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/articles\/azure-government-image-gallery\/\">VM image portfolio<\/a> available today, provisioning of the following image types can be accomplished immediately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows Server Remote Desktop Session Host on Windows Server 2012 R2<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server Remote Desktop Session Host with Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus<\/li>\n<li>SharePoint Server 2016 Trial<\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Update 2 with Azure SDK 2.9 on Windows Server 2012 R2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are excited to share these additions. To keep up with the latest Azure Government news or provide feedback, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/feed\/\">follow the Azure Government blog<\/a>! We look forward to continuing to expand Microsoft Azure Government!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Bruno, Senior Director, Microsoft Azure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;Cross posted from the\u00a0Azure Blog.&gt; Today, I am pleased to announce additional functionality for Microsoft Azure Government. 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