Fsv2-series

The Fsv2-series sizes run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake), the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake) processors, or the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 (Skylake) processors. Processor availability varies by region; sizes may run on any of the listed processors.

The Fsv2-series features a sustained all core Turbo clock speed of 3.4 GHz and a maximum single-core turbo frequency of 3.7 GHz. Intel® AVX-512 instructions are new on Intel Scalable Processors. These instructions provide up to a 2X performance boost to vector processing workloads on both single and double precision floating point operations. In other words, they're really fast for any computational workload. Fsv2-series VMs feature Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.

Host specifications for the Fsv2-series

Part	Quantity ^{Count Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.}
Processor	2 - 72 vCPUs	Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) [x86-64] Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake) [x86-64] Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 (Skylake) [x86-64]
Memory	4 - 144 GB
Local Storage	1 Disk	16 - 576 GiB 4000 to 144000 IOPS (RR) and 31 to 1152 MBps (RR)
Remote Storage	4 - 32 Disks	3200 to 80000 IOPS and 47 to 1100 MBps
Network	2 - 8 NICs	5000 to 30000 Mbps
Accelerators	None

Feature support for the Fsv2-series

Feature name	Support status
Premium Storage	Supported
Premium Storage caching	Supported
Live Migration	Supported
Memory Preserving Updates	Supported
Generation 2 VMs	Supported
Generation 1 VMs	Supported
Accelerated Networking	Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk	Supported
Nested Virtualization	Supported

Sizes in the Fsv2-series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size in the Fsv2-series.

Size Name	vCPUs (Qty.)	Memory (GB)
Standard_F2s_v2	2	4
Standard_F4s_v2	4	8
Standard_F8s_v2	8	16
Standard_F16s_v2	16	32
Standard_F32s_v2	32	64
Standard_F48s_v2	48	96
Standard_F64s_v2	64	128
Standard_F72s_v2	72	144

Basics resources

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Local (temp) storage info for each size in the Fsv2-series.

Size Name	Max Temp Storage Disks (Qty.)	Temp Disk Size (GiB)	Temp Disk Random Read (RR)¹ IOPS	Temp Disk Random Read (RR)¹ Throughput (MB/s)
Standard_F2s_v2	1	16	4000	31
Standard_F4s_v2	1	32	8000	63
Standard_F8s_v2	1	64	16000	127
Standard_F16s_v2	1	128	32000	255
Standard_F32s_v2	1	256	64000	512
Standard_F48s_v2	1	384	96000	768
Standard_F64s_v2	1	512	128000	1024
Standard_F72s_v2	1	576	144000	1152

Storage resources

Fsv2-series local storage table definitions

¹Temp disk speed often differs between RR (Random Read) and RW (Random Write) operations. RR operations are typically faster than RW operations. The RW speed is usually slower than the RR speed on series where only the RR speed value is listed.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Remote (uncached) storage info for each size in the Fsv2-series.

Size Name	Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.)	Uncached Premium SSD Disk IOPS	Uncached Premium SSD Throughput (MB/s)	Uncached Premium SSD Burst¹ IOPS	Uncached Premium SSD Burst¹ Throughput (MB/s)
Standard_F2s_v2	4	3200	47	4000	200
Standard_F4s_v2	8	6400	95	8000	200
Standard_F8s_v2	16	12800	190	16000	400
Standard_F16s_v2	32	25600	380	32000	800
Standard_F32s_v2	32	51200	750	64000	1600
Standard_F48s_v2	32	76800	1100	80000	2000
Standard_F64s_v2	32	80000	1100	80000	2000
Standard_F72s_v2	32	80000	1100	80000	2000

Storage resources

Fsv2-series remote storage table definitions

¹Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Network interface info for each size in the Fsv2-series.

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)	Max Network Bandwidth (Mb/s)
Standard_F2s_v2	2	5000
Standard_F4s_v2	2	10000
Standard_F8s_v2	4	12500
Standard_F16s_v2	4	12500
Standard_F32s_v2	8	16000
Standard_F48s_v2	8	21000
Standard_F64s_v2	8	28000
Standard_F72s_v2	8	30000

Networking resources

Fsv2-series network table definitions

Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

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Last updated on 2025-12-26