Previous generations of virtual machine sizes

Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets ✔️ Uniform scale sets

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This section provides information on previous generations of virtual machine sizes. These sizes can still be used, but there are newer generations available.

F-series

F-series is based on the 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor, which can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.1 GHz with the Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. This is the same CPU performance as the Dv2-series of VMs.

F-series VMs are an excellent choice for workloads that demand faster CPUs but do not need as much memory or temporary storage per vCPU. Workloads such as analytics, gaming servers, web servers, and batch processing will benefit from the value of the F-series.

ACU: 210 - 250

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/Read MBps/Write MBps Max data disks/throughput: IOPS Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_F1 1 2 16 3000/46/23 4/4x500 2/750
Standard_F2 2 4 32 6000/93/46 8/8x500 2/1500
Standard_F4 4 8 64 12000/187/93 16/16x500 4/3000
Standard_F8 8 16 128 24000/375/187 32/32x500 8/6000
Standard_F16 16 32 256 48000/750/375 64/64x500 8/12000

Fs-series 1

The Fs-series provides all the advantages of the F-series, in addition to Premium storage.

ACU: 210 - 250

Premium Storage: Supported

Premium Storage caching: Supported

Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps (cache size in GiB) Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_F1s 1 2 4 4 4000/32 (12) 3200/48 2/750
Standard_F2s 2 4 8 8 8000/64 (24) 6400/96 2/1500
Standard_F4s 4 8 16 16 16000/128 (48) 12800/192 4/3000
Standard_F8s 8 16 32 32 32000/256 (96) 25600/384 8/6000
Standard_F16s 16 32 64 64 64000/512 (192) 51200/768 8/12000

MBps = 10^6 bytes per second, and GiB = 1024^3 bytes.

1 The maximum disk throughput (IOPS or MBps) possible with a Fs series VM may be limited by the number, size, and striping of the attached disk(s). For details, see Design for high performance.

NVv2-series

Newer size recommendation: NVv3-series

The NVv2-series virtual machines are powered by NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs and NVIDIA GRID technology with Intel Broadwell CPUs. These virtual machines are targeted for GPU accelerated graphics applications and virtual desktops where customers want to visualize their data, simulate results to view, work on CAD, or render and stream content. Additionally, these virtual machines can run single precision workloads such as encoding and rendering. NVv2 virtual machines support Premium Storage and come with twice the system memory (RAM) when compared with its predecessor NV-series.

Each GPU in NVv2 instances comes with a GRID license. This license gives you the flexibility to use an NV instance as a virtual workstation for a single user, or 25 concurrent users can connect to the VM for a virtual application scenario.

Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB GPU GPU memory: GiB Max data disks Max NICs Virtual Workstations Virtual Applications
Standard_NV6s_v2 6 112 320 1 8 12 4 1 25
Standard_NV12s_v2 12 224 640 2 16 24 8 2 50
Standard_NV24s_v2 24 448 1280 4 32 32 8 4 100

Older generations of virtual machine sizes

This section provides information on older generations of virtual machine sizes. These sizes are still supported but will not receive additional capacity. There are newer or alternative sizes that are generally available. Please refer to Sizes virtual machines in Azure to choose the VM sizes that will best fit your need.

For more information on resizing a Linux VM, see Resize a VM.


Basic A

Newer size recommendation: Av2-series

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

The basic tier sizes are primarily for development workloads and other applications that don't require load balancing, auto-scaling, or memory-intensive virtual machines.

Size – Size\Name vCPU Memory NICs (Max) Max temporary disk size Max. data disks (1023 GB each) Max. IOPS (300 per disk)
A0\Basic_A0 1 768 MB 2 20 GB 1 1x300
A1\Basic_A1 1 1.75 GB 2 40 GB 2 2x300
A2\Basic_A2 2 3.5 GB 2 60 GB 4 4x300
A3\Basic_A3 4 7 GB 2 120 GB 8 8x300
A4\Basic_A4 8 14 GB 2 240 GB 16 16x300

Standard A0 - A4 using CLI and PowerShell

In the classic deployment model, some VM size names are slightly different in CLI and PowerShell:

  • Standard_A0 is ExtraSmall
  • Standard_A1 is Small
  • Standard_A2 is Medium
  • Standard_A3 is Large
  • Standard_A4 is ExtraLarge

A-series

Newer size recommendation: Av2-series

ACU: 50-100

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (HDD): GiB Max data disks Max data disk throughput: IOPS Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_A0 1 1 0.768 20 1 1x500 2/100
Standard_A1 1 1.75 70 2 2x500 2/500
Standard_A2 2 3.5 135 4 4x500 2/500
Standard_A3 4 7 285 8 8x500 2/1000
Standard_A4 8 14 605 16 16x500 4/2000
Standard_A5 2 14 135 4 4x500 2/500
Standard_A6 4 28 285 8 8x500 2/1000
Standard_A7 8 56 605 16 16x500 4/2000

1 The A0 size is over-subscribed on the physical hardware. For this specific size only, other customer deployments may impact the performance of your running workload. The relative performance is outlined below as the expected baseline, subject to an approximate variability of 15 percent.


A-series - compute-intensive instances

Newer size recommendation: Av2-series

ACU: 225

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

The A8-A11 and H-series sizes are also known as compute-intensive instances. The hardware that runs these sizes is designed and optimized for compute-intensive and network-intensive applications, including high-performance computing (HPC) cluster applications, modeling, and simulations. The A8-A11 series uses Intel Xeon E5-2670 @ 2.6 GHZ and the H-series uses Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 @ 3.2 GHz.

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (HDD): GiB Max data disks Max data disk throughput: IOPS Max NICs
Standard_A8 1 8 56 382 32 32x500 2
Standard_A9 1 16 112 382 64 64x500 4
Standard_A10 8 56 382 32 32x500 2
Standard_A11 16 112 382 64 64x500 4

1 For MPI applications, dedicated RDMA backend network is enabled by FDR InfiniBand network, which delivers ultra-low-latency and high bandwidth.

Note

The A8 – A11 VMs are planned for retirement on 3/2021. We strongly recommend not creating any new A8 – A11 VMs. Please migrate any existing A8 – A11 VMs to newer and powerful high-performance computing VM sizes such as H, HB, HC, HBv2 as well as general purpose compute VM sizes such as D, E, and F for better price-performance. For more information, see HPC Migration Guide.


D-series

Newer size recommendation: Dav4-series, Dv4-series and Ddv4-series

ACU: 160-250 1

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/Read MBps/Write MBps Max data disks/throughput: IOPS Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_D1 1 3.5 50 3000/46/23 4/4x500 2/500
Standard_D2 2 7 100 6000/93/46 8/8x500 2/1000
Standard_D3 4 14 200 12000/187/93 16/16x500 4/2000
Standard_D4 8 28 400 24000/375/187 32/32x500 8/4000

1 VM Family can run on one of the following CPU's: 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2660 v2, 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) or 2.3 GHz Intel XEON® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell)


D-series - memory optimized

Newer size recommendation: Dav4-series, Dv4-series and Ddv4-series

ACU: 160-250 1

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/Read MBps/Write MBps Max data disks/throughput: IOPS Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_D11 2 14 100 6000/93/46 8/8x500 2/1000
Standard_D12 4 28 200 12000/187/93 16/16x500 4/2000
Standard_D13 8 56 400 24000/375/187 32/32x500 8/4000
Standard_D14 16 112 800 48000/750/375 64/64x500 8/8000

1 VM Family can run on one of the following CPU's: 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2660 v2, 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) or 2.3 GHz Intel XEON® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell)


Preview: DC-series

Newer size recommendation: DCsv2-series

Premium Storage: Supported

Premium Storage caching: Supported

Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

The DC-series uses the latest generation of 3.7GHz Intel XEON E-2176G Processor with SGX technology, and with the Intel Turbo Boost Technology can go up to 4.7GHz.

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS / MBps (cache size in GiB) Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS / MBps Max NICs / Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_DC2s 2 8 100 2 4000 / 32 (43) 3200 /48 2 / 1500
Standard_DC4s 4 16 200 4 8000 / 64 (86) 6400 /96 2 / 3000

Important

DC-series VMs are generation 2 VMs and only support Gen2 images.

DS-series

Newer size recommendation: Dasv4-series, Dsv4-series and Ddsv4-series

ACU: 160-250 1

Premium Storage: Supported

Premium Storage caching: Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps (cache size in GiB) Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_DS1 1 3.5 7 4 4000/32 (43) 3200/32 2/500
Standard_DS2 2 7 14 8 8000/64 (86) 6400/64 2/1000
Standard_DS3 4 14 28 16 16000/128 (172) 12800/128 4/2000
Standard_DS4 8 28 56 32 32000/256 (344) 25600/256 8/4000

1 VM Family can run on one of the following CPU's: 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2660 v2, 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) or 2.3 GHz Intel XEON® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell)


DS-series - memory optimized

Newer size recommendation: Dasv4-series, Dsv4-series and Ddsv4-series

ACU: 160-250 1,2

Premium Storage: Supported

Premium Storage caching: Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps (cache size in GiB) Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_DS11 2 14 28 8 8000/64 (72) 6400/64 2/1000
Standard_DS12 4 28 56 16 16000/128 (144) 12800/128 4/2000
Standard_DS13 8 56 112 32 32000/256 (288) 25600/256 8/4000
Standard_DS14 16 112 224 64 64000/512 (576) 51200/512 8/8000

1 The maximum disk throughput (IOPS or MBps) possible with a DS series VM may be limited by the number, size and striping of the attached disk(s). For details, see Design for high performance. 2 VM Family can run on one of the following CPU's: 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2660 v2, 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) or 2.3 GHz Intel XEON® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell)


Ls-series

Newer size recommendation: Lsv2-series

The Ls-series offers up to 32 vCPUs, using the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 family. The Ls-series gets the same CPU performance as the G/GS-Series and comes with 8 GiB of memory per vCPU.

The Ls-series does not support the creation of a local cache to increase the IOPS achievable by durable data disks. The high throughput and IOPS of the local disk makes Ls-series VMs ideal for NoSQL stores such as Apache Cassandra and MongoDB which replicate data across multiple VMs to achieve persistence in the event of the failure of a single VM.

ACU: 180-240

Premium Storage: Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

Size vCPU Memory (GiB) Temp storage (GiB) Max data disks Max temp storage throughput (IOPS/MBps) Max uncached disk throughput (IOPS/MBps) Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_L4s 4 32 678 16 20000/200 5000/125 2/4000
Standard_L8s 8 64 1388 32 40000/400 10000/250 4/8000
Standard_L16s 16 128 2807 64 80000/800 20000/500 8/16000
Standard_L32s 1 32 256 5630 64 160000/1600 40000/1000 8/20000

The maximum disk throughput possible with Ls-series VMs may be limited by the number, size, and striping of any attached disks. For details, see Design for high performance.

1 Instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.

GS-series

Newer size recommendation: Easv4-series, Esv4-series, Edsv4-series and M-series

ACU: 180 - 240 1

Premium Storage: Supported

Premium Storage caching: Supported

Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max cached and temp storage throughput: IOPS / MBps (cache size in GiB) Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_GS1 2 28 56 8 10000/100 (264) 5000/ 125 2/2000
Standard_GS2 4 56 112 16 20000/200 (528) 10000/ 250 2/4000
Standard_GS3 8 112 224 32 40000/400 (1056) 20000/ 500 4/8000
Standard_GS4 3 16 224 448 64 80000/800 (2112) 40000/1000 8/16000
Standard_GS5 2, 3 32 448 896 64 160000/1600 (4224) 80000/2000 8/20000

1 The maximum disk throughput (IOPS or MBps) possible with a GS series VM may be limited by the number, size and striping of the attached disk(s). For details, see Design for high performance.

2 Isolation feature retired on 2/28/2022. For information, see the retirement announcement.

3 Constrained core sizes available.


G-series

Newer size recommendation: Eav4-series, Ev4-series and Edv4-series and M-series

ACU: 180 - 240

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/Read MBps/Write MBps Max data disks/throughput: IOPS Max NICs/Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_G1 2 28 384 6000/93/46 8/8x500 2/2000
Standard_G2 4 56 768 12000/187/93 16/16x500 2/4000
Standard_G3 8 112 1536 24000/375/187 32/32x500 4/8000
Standard_G4 16 224 3072 48000/750/375 64/64x500 8/16000
Standard_G5 1 32 448 6144 96000/1500/750 64/64x500 8/20000

1 Isolation feature retired on 2/28/2022. For information, see the retirement announcement.

NV-series

Newer size recommendation: NVv3-series and NVv4-series

The NV-series virtual machines are powered by NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs and NVIDIA GRID technology for desktop accelerated applications and virtual desktops where customers are able to visualize their data or simulations. Users are able to visualize their graphics intensive workflows on the NV instances to get superior graphics capability and additionally run single precision workloads such as encoding and rendering. NV-series VMs are also powered by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) CPUs.

Each GPU in NV instances comes with a GRID license. This license gives you the flexibility to use an NV instance as a virtual workstation for a single user, or 25 concurrent users can connect to the VM for a virtual application scenario.

Premium Storage: Not Supported

Premium Storage caching: Not Supported

Live Migration: Not Supported

Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB GPU GPU memory: GiB Max data disks Max NICs Virtual Workstations Virtual Applications
Standard_NV6 6 56 340 1 8 24 1 1 25
Standard_NV12 12 112 680 2 16 48 2 2 50
Standard_NV24 24 224 1440 4 32 64 4 4 100

1 GPU = one-half M60 card.

NC series

Newer size recommendation: NC T4 v3-series

NC-series VMs are powered by the NVIDIA Tesla K80 card and the Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) processor. Users can crunch through data faster by leveraging CUDA for energy exploration applications, crash simulations, ray traced rendering, deep learning, and more. The NC24r configuration provides a low latency, high-throughput network interface optimized for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads.

Premium Storage: Not Supported
Premium Storage caching: Not Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 1

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB GPU GPU memory: GiB Max data disks Max NICs
Standard_NC6 6 56 340 1 12 24 1
Standard_NC12 12 112 680 2 24 48 2
Standard_NC24 24 224 1440 4 48 64 4
Standard_NC24r* 24 224 1440 4 48 64 4

1 GPU = one-half K80 card.

*RDMA capable


NCv2 series

Newer size recommendation: NC T4 v3-series and NC V100 v3-series

NCv2-series VMs are powered by NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs. These GPUs can provide more than 2x the computational performance of the NC-series. Customers can take advantage of these updated GPUs for traditional HPC workloads such as reservoir modeling, DNA sequencing, protein analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, and others. In addition to the GPUs, the NCv2-series VMs are also powered by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs.

The NC24rs v2 configuration provides a low latency, high-throughput network interface optimized for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads.

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 1 and 2
Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

For this VM series, the vCPU (core) quota in your subscription is initially set to 0 in each region. Request a vCPU quota increase for this series in an available region.

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB GPU GPU memory: GiB Max data disks Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs
Standard_NC6s_v2 6 112 736 1 16 12 20000/200 4
Standard_NC12s_v2 12 224 1474 2 32 24 40000/400 8
Standard_NC24s_v2 24 448 2948 4 64 32 80000/800 8
Standard_NC24rs_v2* 24 448 2948 4 64 32 80000/800 8

1 GPU = one P100 card.

*RDMA capable


ND series

Newer size recommendation: NDv2-series and NC V100 v3-series

The ND-series virtual machines are a new addition to the GPU family designed for AI, and Deep Learning workloads. They offer excellent performance for training and inference. ND instances are powered by NVIDIA Tesla P40 GPUs and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs. These instances provide excellent performance for single-precision floating point operations, for AI workloads utilizing Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, TensorFlow, Caffe, and other frameworks. The ND-series also offers a much larger GPU memory size (24 GB), enabling to fit much larger neural net models. Like the NC-series, the ND-series offers a configuration with a secondary low-latency, high-throughput network through RDMA, and InfiniBand connectivity so you can run large-scale training jobs spanning many GPUs.

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 1 and 2
Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

For this VM series, the vCPU (core) quota per region in your subscription is initially set to 0. Request a vCPU quota increase for this series in an available region.

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB GPU GPU memory: GiB Max data disks Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs
Standard_ND6s 6 112 736 1 24 12 20000/200 4
Standard_ND12s 12 224 1474 2 48 24 40000/400 8
Standard_ND24s 24 448 2948 4 24 32 80000/800 8
Standard_ND24rs* 24 448 2948 4 96 32 80000/800 8

1 GPU = one P40 card.

*RDMA capable


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