Public Preview: 6th generation Intel-based VMs – Dv6/Ev6

We are pleased to announce the public preview of the D and E family VMs built on the new 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8537C (Emerald Rapids) processor. These new Intel-based VMs come with three different memory-to-core ratios and offer options with and without local SSD across all the new VMs – the General Purpose Dsv6, Dlsv6, Ddvs6, and Dldsv6 series and the Memory Optimized Esv6 and Edsv6 series. In addition, there are constrained core variants for Esv6 series which are ideal for workloads that require high data throughput without a high number of vCPUs. There are 84 new VM sizes in total, ranging from 2 to 192 vCPU and up to 1.8TB of memory

These VMs will offer:

• Up to 27% higher vCPU performance and 3x larger L3 cache than the previous generation Intel Dl/D/Ev5 VMs
• Up to 192vCPU and >18GiB of memory
• Azure Boost which enables:
  • Up to 400k IOPS and 12 GB/s remote storage throughput
  • Up to 200 Gbps VM network bandwidth
• 46% larger local SSD capacity and >3X read IOPS
• NVMe interface for local and remote disks
• Enhanced security through Total Memory Encryption (TME) technology

The new Dv6 VMs offer a balance of memory to vCPU ratio with increased scalability of up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of RAM. The new Ev6 VMs are ideal for memory-intensive workloads offering up to 192 vCPU to 1832 GiB of RAM. These new VMs significantly extend the performance of Intel VM options available for Azure customers.

These VMs will initially be available in the US West and US East regions. Please sign up for the public preview through the preview signup form.

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