'M' family memory optimized VM size series

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

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).

View the full M-series page.

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

Next steps

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