In September 2023, we announced the Public Preview of NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput Virtual Machine (VM) sizes based on the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C processor offering higher remote storage performance with Azure Disks. The Ebsv5 VM family is designed for memory-intensive business-critical applications, relational database servers, and in-memory data analytics workloads.

Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of accelerated remote storage performance using Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk within the existing NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 family. The higher storage performance is offered across all Ebsv5 sizes and delivers up to 400K IOPS (I/O operations per second) and 10GBps of remote disk storage throughput. This general availability of accelerated NVMe-Ebsv5 with increased remote storage performance is part of the Azure Boost family which upgrades the fleet with these new capabilities. 

The NVMe enabled Ebsv5 sizes offer up to 2x the performance of SCSI VM sizes with no additional cost, providing better price-performance. The VM pricing details are available here.

The Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe VM series

In today’s competitive business landscape, quickly processing, analyzing, and extracting insights from large volumes of data is essential. OLTP and OLAP applications, which handle real-time transactions, further highlight the need for powerful computing and storage solutions. Companies must adopt robust systems to manage increasing data demands efficiently while keeping costs in check.

The Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM family with NVMe, made generally available in May 2023, meets the performance requirements for many business-critical applications. However, some workloads require even higher VM-to-disk throughput and IOPS performance over Ultra or Premium SSD v2 disk options, which are now served by the accelerated NVMe Ebsv5 VM sizes.

Ebsv5 series NVMe VM specifications

The E2-112i vCPU sizes with the NVMe provide higher performance than the comparable Ebsv5 SCSI sizes for the same price. The accelerated NVMe-enabled sizes offer up to 400,000 IOPS and 10,000 MBps with Ultra disk and Premium V2 storage offerings.

Note the Uncached IOPS/ throughput specs are the same as Ebdsv5 VMs

Size

vCPU

Memory

GiB

Max uncached disk throughput

IOPS/MBps

(Ultra/Pv2-SSD)

Max burst uncached disk throughput

IOPS/MBps

(Ultra/Pv2-SSD)

Standard_E2bs_v5

2

16

12000/300

15000/1200

Standard_E4bs_v5

4

32

21400/600

30000/1200

Standard_E8bs_v5

8

64

44200/1200

60000/1200

Standard_E16bs_v5

16

128

88400/2300

96000/2600

Standard_E32bs_v5

32

256

174200/4800

180000/5200

Standard_E48bs_v5

48

384

253300/7300

260000/7850

Standard_E64bs_v5

64

512

294800/7800

310000/8500

Standard_E96bs_v5

96

672

390000/8500

390000/9000

Standard_E112ibs_v5

112i

672

400000/10000

400000/10000

For more information, system prerequisite, current restrictions of this offering, please visit Ebsv5/Ebdsv5 specification page.

*Please note that you are required to create new Ultra disks for Ebsv5 NVMe for the upgraded performance in the following regions: uswestcentral-AZ01, usstagesc-AZ01, ussouth-AZ02, useast, uscentral-AZ03,uksouth, europewest, europenorth, brazilsouth-AZ03, australiasoutheast-AZ01, asiasoutheast, australiaeast-AZ02,AZ03

All the rest of the regions that aren’t listed here doesn’t require new Ultra disks creation for upgraded performance

Customer Testimonials: We had the opportunity to collaborate with several Azure partners during the preview period. Below is the feedback from some of the partners on the performance of the new VMs:

FlashGrid.io offers solutions to help organizations simplify the management and deployment of their mission-critical databases in the cloud while ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.

“With the recent update of the Ebsv5 NVMe VMs we are now measuring 10 GBPS of throughput and 400K IOPS per VM with Premium SSD v2 disks. That is 30 GBPS and over 1M IOPS in a FlashGrid Cluster with three Oracle RAC database nodes, which is an order of magnitude higher than a typical on-premises storage system”

Getting started

Learn more about the NVMe Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VMs by reading the FAQ. Learn more about the Azure Boost by reading the aka.ms/azureboost .For pricing information, check out Windows and Linux. Also, please verify the Ultra disk and Premium SSD V2 regional availability to pair with the NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 series. Finally, if you need help selecting the best VM for your workload, start with the virtual machine selector.

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