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HB-series

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

HB-series VMs are optimized for applications that are driven by memory bandwidth, such as fluid dynamics, explicit finite element analysis, and weather modeling. HB VMs feature 60 AMD EPYC 7551 processor cores, 4 GB of RAM per CPU core, and no simultaneous multithreading. An HB VM provides up to 260 GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

HB-series VMs feature 100 Gb/sec Mellanox EDR InfiniBand. These VMs are connected in a non-blocking fat tree for optimized and consistent RDMA performance. These VMs support Adaptive Routing and the Dynamic Connected Transport (DCT, in addition to standard RC and UD transports). These features enhance application performance, scalability, and consistency, and their usage is recommended.

ACU: 199-216
Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Ultra Disks: Supported (Learn more about availability, usage and performance)
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 1 and 2
Accelerated Networking: Supported (Learn more about performance and potential issues)
Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported

Size vCPU Processor Memory (GiB) Memory bandwidth GB/s Base CPU frequency (GHz) All-cores frequency (GHz, peak) Single-core frequency (GHz, peak) RDMA performance (Gb/s) MPI support Temp storage (GiB) Max data disks Max Ethernet vNICs
Standard_HB60rs 60 AMD EPYC 7551 228 263 2.0 2.55 2.55 100 All 700 4 8
Standard_HB60-45rs 45 AMD EPYC 7551 228 263 2.0 2.55 2.55 100 All 700 4 8
Standard_HB60-30rs 30 AMD EPYC 7551 228 263 2.0 2.55 2.55 100 All 700 4 8
Standard_HB60-15rs 15 AMD EPYC 7551 228 263 2.0 2.55 2.55 100 All 700 4 8

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Size table definitions

  • Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.

  • Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.

  • Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.

  • To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

  • Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth.

    Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines. To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

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