Looking for Azure VM having nested virtualization and GPU support

Question

Hello,

I am looking to create VM in azure having nested virtualization and GPU support.
Could you please with this ?

Thanks,
Hanumanthe

Answer 1

Hi @Gowda, Hanumanthe
Virtual Machine SKU must be V3 or higher (D_v3, Ds_v3, Es_V3) in the comparative table, N machines do not support nested virtualization

Hyper-threaded and capable of running nested virtualization https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/acu

Official reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/nested-virtualization

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Answer 2

Hello, @Gowda, Hanumanthe !

@Jackson Martins is correct: there are no GPU optimized virtual machine sizes that support nested virtualization at this time (I went through the complete list just to double check). This is a popular question though and I'd like to summarize the information in case this is ever updated in the future or for readers who may be willing to give up GPU optimization for another VM that does support nested virtualization.

Which Azure virtual machines have nested virtualization? Which GPU accelerated VMs have nested virtualization?
As pointed out by @Jackson Martins , the complete list of VMs that support nested virtualization can be found in the ACU (Azure Compute Unit) documentation and are marked by three stars ( *** ) to indicate that they are Hyper-threaded and capable of running nested virtualization. As of the time of this post, no GPU optimized VMs support nested virtualization however there are many other VM sizes that do support nested virtualization.

Azure Docs: Azure compute unit (ACU)