I want confirm the Azure DSv2 series of VMs don't have SMT or Hyperthreading enabled.

Question

I have requirement to use a VM with NO Hyperthreading or SMT enabled for license compliance.

I am planning to use Standard DS12-2 v2 (2 vcpus, 28 GiB memory) as it appears to suit my requirement.

Just want to re-confirm that the vCPU in this VM does not have any Hyperthreading or SMT enabled, as I couldn't clearly see it in the Azure documentation..

Answer 1

Hello, @Kanishk Singh !

How do I confirm if a VM has hyper-threading or simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT)?

The Azure compute unit (ACU) documentation explicitly notes which VMs have these features:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/acu

The DS1_v2 - DS15_v2 SKU Family do not have these features:

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