Public Preview: 7th generation Intel-based VMs – Dlsv7/Dsv7/Esv7

Announcing 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).

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 compared 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

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.