We are excited to announce the preview of new Azure Dlsv7/Dsv7 General Purpose and Esv7 Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processors (Granite Rapids). These new VMs offer three different memory-to-vCPU ratios and offer options with and without local NVMe temp disks.
The latest Azure Intel-based v7 VMs are designed to power ever increasing compute demands in today’s data center environment and deliver exceptional performance across a wide range of workloads, from traditional enterprise applications to cutting edge AI.
These VMs deliver several important features and improvements as compared to the equivalent previous generation (v6) Intel-based VMs including:
- Up to 15% better general compute performance, powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 CPUs with turbo frequencies up to 4.2 GHz and up to 2x higher memory bandwidth
- Expanded sizes and memory capacity: Dsv7 and Esv7 VMs now scale up to 372 vCPUs with Esv7 VMs enabling up to 2.8TiB of memory
- Increased networking and remote storage performance driven by latest Azure Boost capabilities:
- Up to 400 Gbps networking bandwidth with the largest size
- Up to 800k IOPS and 20 GBps throughput to Premium v2 and Ultra Disk remote storage with the largest size
The new VMs support three memory (GiB)-to-vCPU ratios with 2:1 (Dlsv7, Dldsv7), 4:1 (Dsv7, Ddsv7), and 8:1 (Esv7, Edsv7). Additionally, each VM family has options with and without local NVMe temp disks. Whether you choose a VM with a local temp disk or not, you can attach remote persistent disk such as Premium Disk v1, Premium Disk v2, or Ultra Disks to the VMs.
Dlsv7 and Dsv7 VMs offer a balance of memory to CPU performance and are ideal for many general computing workloads such as e-commerce systems, web applications, desktop virtualization solutions, application servers, and more.
Esv7 VMs offer a higher ratio of memory to CPU and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as SQL and noSQL database servers, data warehousing workloads, business intelligence applications, in-memory databases such as SAP and Redis, and in-memory analytics.
Join the Preview
Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VM sizes with and without local NVMe temp disks will be available to test in preview in the East US 2 region. To request access to the preview, please fill out the survey form here. We look forward to hearing from you.
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