Deploy Elasticsearch on Azure Cobalt 100 Arm virtual machines
Introduction
Understand Azure Cobalt 100 VMs and Elasticsearch benchmarking with ESRally
Create an Azure Cobalt 100 Arm virtual machine for Elasticsearch deployment
Install Elasticsearch and ESRally on the Cobalt 100 virtual machine instance
Benchmark Elasticsearch using ESRally on the Cobalt 100 virtual machine instance
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About this Learning Path

Skill level:  Introductory
Reading time:  2 hrs
Last updated:  14 May 2026
Skill level:
  Introductory
Reading time:
  2 hrs
Last updated:
  14 May 2026
Author:Doug Anson, Arm
Arm IP:Neoverse
Tags: Performance and Architecture Microsoft Azure Linux Elasticsearch ESRally Bash
Author:
  • Doug Anson, Arm
Arm IP:
Neoverse
Tags:
Performance and Architecture Microsoft Azure Linux Elasticsearch ESRally Bash

Who is this for?

This Learning Path is for developers who want to deploy and benchmark Elasticsearch on Azure Cobalt 100 Arm virtual machines.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

  • Provision an Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 virtual machine via Azure
  • Install and validate Elasticsearch on the Cobalt 100 VM
  • Run a baseline ESRally benchmark and interpret key performance metrics

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

  • A Microsoft Azure account with access to Cobalt 100 instances (Epdsv6 series)
  • Basic familiarity with SSH
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch and ESRally
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