Performance tuning development VM

It is general complain of any developer. Why is it so SLOOOWWWWW? And yes, it is slow. But there are tweaks to improve speed.  Slow is influence on 3 things

• Startup VM
  • Is also startup of
    • Batches
    • Management reporter
    • Windows security
    • Windows update
    • Windows maintenance
  • SQL
    • There is no SQL maintenance
  • Disk
    • Storage type

You could disable the batches & management reporter. That will help. But the real issue is how the disks of that VM are configured.  In general, it looks like below 16 lazy disks.

Now you can change these to faster disks , but please be aware of the prices. Also, these are managed disk, the cost fixed amount every month, so stopping the VM will not reduce below cost.

How does the disk migration work?  The first step is migration to managed disks

Next you can change all the discs

But hold on 16 disks multiplied with 18.29  makes 292 euro on top of running the VM. This is very expensive in the relation to how you use it. So next step:

• Active your code & database.
• Delete the VM
• Deploy a new one

And of course, do not forget to setup the auto shutdown and the azure software reductions.