The basic tier includes only A series VMs. You select the VM tier and series based on which one best suits your workload requirements. There are two tiers of virtual machines in Azure (basic and standard), and within each tier, VMs are grouped into series (A, D, DS, G) and sizes (extra-small, small, medium, large, extra-large) that offer different computing and resource configurations. The number of NICs that can be added to a VM depends on the Azure VM size. Or you might be interested in using a third-party virtual network appliance that requires multiple NICs in your Azure deployment. Another example is using two or more NICs to separate the VM data and management network traffic flow. For example, you can now add multiple NICs in an Azure VM to connect it to different virtual networks, effectively isolating front-end, mid-tier, and back-end traffic flowing through a VM. This long awaited feature allows users to set up scenarios in the Azure cloud that have long been deployed on premise. Best co-op video game of all time? I think so.Īlso, the Perpetual Testing Initiative is insanely awesome.Microsoft has updated Azure to support multiple network interface cards (NICs) for a subset of virtual machines (VMs). 2 things put it over the top for me:Ģ) The co-op. Do you like short games that keep an air of mystery about them and fool you with spectacularly successful reveals and twists? Or do you prefer something much larger but a little bit more conventional in terms of structure, but with more characters and character development and a different, more brazen brand of humor?Īll of that said, gun to my head.I'd take Portal 2. That is one of my favorite video game moments EVER. McLain deserves awards for her work in Portal.Īnd finally, while Portal 1 had the better boss battle, Portal 2 had the portal to the moon. And amazingly, the dialogue and voice acting of Wheatley and Cave was so damn good that they actually weren't even overshadowed by the wonderful Ellen McLain as GLaDOS. While the character arc of GLaDOS in the original Portal is brilliant in and of itself, Portal 2 had THREE main characters, ALL of whom had complex and brilliantly written character development. Portal 1 kept you interested by keeping secrets Portal 2 kept you interested by allowing you to see EVERYTHING. Unlike Portal 1, you really get to stretch and EXPLORE the facility.
The comedy is less sarcastic and subtle and more laugh-out-loud funny (with some sarcasm thrown in). And GLaDOS's inane babbling at the end contains some of the best dialogue in video game history. Portal 1 also had a very dry, sarcastic sort of wit to it the humor was subtle but hilarious. The boss battle with GLaDOS is one of the all-time best. It made everything look very self-contained up until the big reveal at the end, and that's why it worked so spectacularly well. The game did what we loved in Portal 1 while still exploring new avenues and expanding on the portal universe. I am going to have to give this to Portal 2. They gave more details but still managed to leave us with some burning questions about chell, ratman, cave johnson, wheatley, and caroline. Story wise it had quite a lot more dialog and characters while still managing to maintain the simplistic run of just one (at max two) characters interacting with you at once. With the new additions of light grids, all three of the gels, water, and other things I found it far more fun and less simplistic in nature. You never felt like they moved you up to fast. The difficulty and complexity of the puzzles also ramped up properly. It has so much more variables and options in a puzzle yet they somehow manage to make sure that there is only one real way to solve it usually.
Portal 2 can really be considered the first full sized portal game in the series. Left you with a lot of questions which were both frustrating and alluring. Valve managed to tell a story with very little dialog save for Glados herself.
Story wise was great even if it was a little non-descriptive. Portal 1 was short but a lot of fun with some challenging puzzles. To tell you the truth portal 1 was nothing more then a (excuse the pun) experiment.