When deploying to an Azure virtual machine, there are several series, or “families”, of virtual machine sizes that can be selected. Each series is a combination of memory, CPU, and storage that meets certain requirements. Select the “family” which would be described as: “These VMs provide fast, local, NVMe storage that is ephemeral. They are good candidates for scale-out data workloads such as Cassandra. It is possible to use them with SQL Server, however since the storage is ephemeral, you need to ensure you configure data protection using a feature like Always On Availability Groups or Log Shipping.”