Topic: Mining XMR with Free Trial from Azure (Read 959 times)

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I guess that all depends, it's something for nothing so I can't really see a down side to it. If your already mineing it's a little extra hash, if not it's good for learning how to and gives a little bit without any cost. The guide is quite long just to make sure I covered everything but I think if you have used Linux before you could probably complete it in 20mins easy.

is it really worth spending your time to something that will expire?

Actually come to think about it, if your goal is just to get the most out of your credits and you don't plan on using Azure for anything else, then you might as well create a VM with the 4x Tesla P100 GPU's or wait for the upcoming 4x Tesla V100 (more performance, but cheaper) VM's. Your credits will last you close to a day but you'll make more money in that day than you will mining within budget for a month. And then after that, you'll still have 750 hours of the very low end B1S VM that'll give you a little bit more hash power to whatever pre existing hashpower you already have.

Great =D, no need to disable anything when you run out it automatically stops and shuts down. Then if you wanted to pay for it you would have to restart it manually. I checked this for definite before I posted the guide!

Nice i got it mining for free at 95h/s   thx

But how can i disable automatic renewal in azure subscription to avoid any charges on my credit card?
It is weirdly insane to find it in azure

I'm probably not going to test it out lol. The mining calculators I've checked it with basically show that I'd only make like $7-8 before I burn out my credits that same day. Whereas if I mined normally and stayed within the budget, I'd still be pretty close to that amount after a month. Might need to use those credits for something else possibly so better to not burn it out all at once lol

I'm interested to see what the results of this would work out profitability wise, I didn't know about the B1S either thanks.

There are super expensive VM's on Azure that also have NVidia Tesla P100 GPU's that'll probably get you several KH/s per VM. However, you'll burn through your free trial within a day. Keep in mind that once you use up your free credits, you actually still do get 750 hours of the B1S series VM for free for a year. Now mining on the B1S VM will get you less than 10 H/s but hey it's free and costs you nothing. I do have a different subscription on Azure and therefore get $150 in Azure credits every month. Currently I'm trying to find a good balance of the F-series VM's to maximize my use of the credits, I've occasionally pushed it too far and end up using up the credits way too early and have to wait weeks for the next set of credits. I'm averaging about 200 H/s across all my Azure VM's at the moment. I'm deciding whether it might be more worth it to burn through all my credits in a day with the NVidia tesla P100 VM's, once a month.

Edit: Well after doing some calculations, I'd make about $7-8 in a day if I mined with 4x Tesla P100's. Which would actually make me slightly more money than mining with the more reasonable VM's. The difference is only like $1-2 though. So if I kept doing that once a month, I wouldn't be making much extra in the long run either lol.

You can chose whatever hardware is available, the bigger you go the quicker the trial ends. Would be nice to get a bit more out of it but its a free at then end of the day. If you wanted to continue to mine after the trial it might work out better renting a miner VM from one of the many places online.

That's not much indeed. As a matter of fact, that's a laughable $6 a month.
Isn't there any more powerful sessions you can get/rent that would give you a decent hashrate? A rack of Xeons or Threadrippers would do!

I have a Azure subscription and have been mining on it for a couple of months.
Per Windows VM it gives about 100H/s which is not much.

I can see no issue with using windows for setup however, I would expect your hash rate to be a bit lower because windows tends to be more resource hungry than Ubuntu.

Out of interest, why would you run it out of a Linux VM as opposed to a Windows one?
I want to give this a try, but I suck at Linux. If I could run a Windows instance and dump Claymore on there, it'd be easiest I suppose!

Yeah, I will look at making a video guide. I've got screenshots of the steps aswell that I want to add, how far have you got and what are you stuck on?

can you give some video tutor?? my head spinning here

Good to know, I had no issue and know others who have done this. I couldn't find anything in the T&C's against it but that's not to to say they might change them. I heard that AWS clamped down on it a while back, not technically breaking their T&C's but they claimed that mining software is a virus so that gave them the right to close the VM's and accounts.

MS allows mining on their free trial cloud service ?!?!   
GoogleCloud doesnt allow.

Thanks for the advice, I've updated the guide!

Actually I'd say the F-series VM's, especially the V2 series VM's are probably the best for this purpose because they're optimized for compute intensive tasks.