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General availability (Windows) and preview (Linux): Accelerated Networking

Published date: October 09, 2017

The following list shows the OS images, regions, and VM sizes that Accelerated Networking currently supports.

Creation of all VMs is supported only through Azure Resource Manager.

Supported Windows OS images in the Azure Marketplace:

  • Variants of Windows Server 2012 R2

    • HPC Pack 2012 R2 Compute Node on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • HPC Pack 2012 R2 with Excel on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • HPC Pack 2012 R2 on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter

  • Variants of Windows Server 2016

    • Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 (TP5)

  • Variants of SQL Server on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2014 SP1 Standard on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2014 SP1 Web on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2016 RTM Developer on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2016 RTM Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2016 RTM Express on Windows Servers 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2016 RTM Standard on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • SQL Server 2016 RTM Web on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • {BYOL} SQL Server 2016 RTM Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • {BYOL} SQL Server 2016 RTM Standard on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • {BYOL} SQL Server 2014 SP1 Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2

    • {BYOL} SQL Server 2014 SP1 Standard on Windows Server 2012 R2

Supported Windows regions: 

  • West Central US

  • East US

  • East US 2

  • West US

  • West US 2

  • North US

  • South US

  • West Europe

  • Brazil South

  • UK West

  • UK North

  • UK South

  • UK South 2

  • Asia East

  • Asia Southeast

  • Korea South

  • Korea Central

  • Australia Southeast

  • Australia East

  • Japan East

  • Canada East

  • Canada Central

Supported Linux instances:

  • Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

  • SLES 12 SP2

  • RHEL 7.3

  • CentOS 7.3 (Published by “Rogue Wave Software”)

Supported Linux regions:

  • US South

  • US West 2

  • Europe West

  • UK West

  • Canada Central

  • US East 2

  • Japan East

  • Europe North

  • US Central

  • US West

  • US West Central

  • UK South

  • India Central

Supported VM sizes:

  • D3v3/DS3v2

  • D4v2/DS4v2

  • D5v2/DS5v2

  • D12v2/DS12v2

  • D13v2/DS13v2

  • D14v2/DS14v2

  • D15v2/DS15v2

  • F8/FS8

  • F16/FS16

  • M64s/M64ms

  • M128s/M128ms

  • D8/D8Sv3

  • D16/D16Sv3

  • D32/D32Sv3

  • D64/D64Sv3

  • E8/E8Sv3

  • E16/E16Sv3

  • E32/E32Sv3

  • E64/E64Sv3

  • Features