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Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets ✔️ Uniform scale sets
The 'M' family of VM size series are one of Azure's ultra memory-optimized VM instances designed for extremely memory-intensive workloads, such as large in-memory databases, data warehousing, and high-performance computing (HPC). Equipped with substantial RAM capacities and high vCPU capabilities, the M-family VMs support applications and services that require massive amounts of memory and significant computational power. High resource allocation makes the M-family particularly well-suited for handling tasks such as heavy SQL Server and other RDBMS workloads, complex scientific simulations, real-time data processing, and large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, ensuring peak performance for the most demanding data-centric applications.
Workloads and use cases
SQL Server workloads with high memory needs: The M-family is particularly effective for running SQL Server machines with high memory requirements, such as for online transaction processing (OLTP) or data analytics.
In-memory databases: The M-family is particularly effective for running in-memory databases that require large amounts of RAM like SQL Server, or SAP HANA.
Big data applications: The M-family is ideal for handling big data applications that need to process and analyze huge datasets in memory, improving performance and reducing the time to insights.
Data warehousing: M-family VMs provide the performance and memory needed for data warehousing applications, facilitating faster queries and better handling of large volumes of data.
Enterprise applications: The M-family supports large-scale enterprise applications, including ERP and CRM systems, which benefit from having more memory to manage larger datasets and more complex transactions efficiently.
Heavy workloads in virtualized environments: The M-family is well-equipped to handle heavy virtualized environments, offering substantial memory for hosting multiple virtual machines and applications on a single physical server.
Series in family
Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3-series
The Memory-and-storage optimized Mbv3 VM series are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and deliver higher remote disk storage performance. These new VM sizes offer up to 650,000 IOPS and 10 GBps of remote disk storage throughput Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk, up to 4 TiB of RAM and up to 650,000 IOPS and 10 GBps throughput to remote disk storage with NVMe interface by using Ultra Disk and Premium SSD v2.
The increased remote storage performance of these VMs is ideal for storage throughput-intensive workloads such as relational databases and data analytics applications.
The resource allocation and high-performance capabilities of the Mbv3 VM series make them particularly well suited for SQL Server workloads with high memory needs, such as critical online transaction processing (OLTP), data analytics, in-memory databases, data warehousing, and the consolidation of SQL Server workloads for efficient management of multiple SQL Server instances.
View the full Mbsv3-series page
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 16 - 176 vCPUs | Intel Xeon 4th gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 128 - 1536 GiB | |
| Local Storage | None | |
| Remote Storage | 64 Disks | 44,000 - 260,000 IOPS 1,000 - 6,000 MBps |
| Network | 8 NICs | 8,000 - 50,000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
Msv3 and Mdsv3 Medium Memory series
The Msv3 Medium Memory(MM) Virtual Machine (VM) series, powered by 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, are the next generation of memory-optimized VM sizes delivering faster performance, lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved resilience to failures compared to previous generation Mv2 VMs. The Msv3 MM offers VM sizes of up to 4TB of memory and 4,000 MBps throughput to remote storage and provides up to 25% networking performance improvements over previous generations.
View the full Msv3-MM-series page
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 12 - 176 vCPUs | Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 240 - 3892 GiB | |
| Local Storage | None | |
| Remote Storage | 64 Disks | 16,250 - 130,000 IOPS 390 - 4,000 MBps |
| Network | 4 - 8 NICs | 4,000 - 40,000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
Msv3 and Mdsv3 High Memory series
The Msv3 High Memory (HM) Virtual Machine (VM) series are the next generation of memory-optimized VM sizes delivering faster performance, lower total cost of ownership and improved resilience to failures compared to the previous generation, Mv2-series VMs. Msv3 HM offers VM sizes with memory ranging from 6TB to 16TB, up to 8,000 MBps throughout to remote storage, and up to 25% networking performance improvements over previous generations.
View the full Msv3-HM-series page
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 416 - 832 vCPUs | Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 5,696 - 15,200 GiB | |
| Local Storage | None | |
| Remote Storage | 64 Disks | 130,000 - 260,000 IOPS 4,000 - 8,000 MBps |
| Network | 8 NICs | 40,000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
Mdsv3 Very High Memory series
The Mdsv3 Very High Memory (VHM) series, powered by 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8490H (Sapphire Rapids) processor with an all core base frequency of 1.9 GHz and 3.5 GHz single core turbo frequency, are the next generation of memory-optimized VM sizes delivering faster performance, lower total cost of ownership and improved resilience to failures compared to the previous generation. The Mv3 VHM sizes offer 32TB of memory, up to 8 GBps of throughput for remote storage, and provide up to 185 Gbps of networking performance with the current VHM generation.
View the full Mdsv3-VHM-series page
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 896 - 1,792 vCPUs | Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 30,400 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 Disk | 4,096 GiB |
| Remote Storage | 64 Disks | 110,000 IOPS 8,000 MBps |
| Network | 8 NICs | 185,000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
Msv2 and Mdsv2 Medium Memory series
The Msv2 Medium Memory VM Series features Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280 (Cascade Lake) processor with an all core base frequency of 2.7 GHz and 4.0 GHz single core turbo frequency. With these VMs, customers achieve increased flexibility with local disk and diskless options. Customers also have access to a set of new isolated VM sizes with more CPU and memory that go up to 192 vCPU with 4 TiB of memory.
View the full Msv2-MM-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 32 - 192 vCPUs | Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 (Cascade Lake) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 875 - 4096 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 0 - Disks | |
| Remote Storage | 32 - 64 Disks | 20000 - 80000 IOPS 500 - 4000 MBps |
| Network | 8 NICs | 8000 - 30000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
Mv2-series
The Mv2-series features high throughput, low latency platform running on a hyper-threaded Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180M 2.5GHz (Skylake) processor with an all core base frequency of 2.5 GHz and a max turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz. All Mv2-series virtual machine sizes can use both standard and premium persistent disks. Mv2-series instances are memory optimized VM sizes providing unparalleled computational performance to support large in-memory databases and workloads, with a high memory-to-CPU ratio that is ideal for relational database servers, large caches, and in-memory analytics.
View the full Mv2-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 208 - 416 vCPUs | Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M (Skylake) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 2,850 - 11,400 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 Disk | 4096 - 8192 GiB 80000 - 250000 IOPS (RR) 800 - 1600 MBps (RR) |
| Remote Storage | 64 Disks | 40000 - 80000 IOPS 1000 - 2000 MBps |
| Network | 8 NICs | 16000 - 32000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
M-series
The M-series offers a high vCPU count (up to 128 vCPUs) and a large amount of memory (up to 3.8 TiB). It's also ideal for extremely large databases or other applications that benefit from high vCPU counts and large amounts of memory. M-series sizes are supported both on the Intel® Xeon® CPU E7-8890 v3 @ 2.50GHz and on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280M (Cascade Lake).
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 8 - 128 vCPUs | Intel Xeon E7-8890 v3 (Haswell) [x86-64] Intel Xeon Platinum 8280M (Cascade Lake) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 218.75 - 3892 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 Disk | 256 - 14336 GiB 10000 - 250000 IOPS (RR) 100 - 1600 MBps (RR) |
| Remote Storage | 8 - 64 Disks | 5000/125 - 80000/2000 IOPS 5000/125 - 80000/2000 MBps |
| Network | 4 - 8 NICs | 2000 - 32000 Mbps |
| Accelerators | None |
Previous-generation M family series
For older sizes, see previous generation sizes.
Other size information
List of all available sizes: Sizes
Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator
Information on Disk Types: Disk Types
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