Azure Mv2-series VMs with 12TB memory now GA in US West 2, US East & US East 2 regions
Published date: October 25, 2019
Azure Mv2-series Virtual Machines with 12TB memory are now generally available for the US West 2, US East and US East 2 regions.
Azure Mv2-series virtual machines are hyper-threaded and feature Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180M 2.5GHz (Skylake) processors, offering up to 416 vCPU in 3TB, 6 TB and 12 TB memory configurations. This is by far the largest-memory virtual machine offered on Azure. Mv2-series virtual machines provide unparalleled computational performance to support large in-memory databases and workloads such as SAP HANA and SQL Hekaton.
For more information on Mv2-series pricing and region availability, refer to the Azure Virtual Machines Pricing Page.
Mv2-series VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads. With this, customers can seamlessly scale up from 3 TB to 12 TB memory on a virtual machine in just minutes. To learn more on how to leverage Mv2 VMs for SAP HANA, watch this Microsoft Mechanics video. For more information on running SAP HANA on Azure, please refer to the SAP on Azure Solutions website.