-- One common scenario that can benefit from disk bursting is faster VM boot and application launch on OS disks. Take a Linux VM with an 8 GiB OS image as an example. If we use a P2 disk as the OS disk, the provisioned target is 120 IOPS and 25 MBps. When VM starts, there will be a read spike to the OS disk loading the boot files. With the introduction of bursting, you can read at the max burst speed of 3500 IOPS and 170 MBps, accelerating the load time by at least 6x. After VM boot, the traffic level on the OS disk is usually low, since most data operations by the application will be against the attached data disks. If the traffic is below the provisioned target, you will accumulate credits.
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