Azure Mv2-series VMs offering up to 12TB memory are now GA in EU West and EU North regions
Published date: October 25, 2019
Azure Mv2 Virtual Machines with up to 12TB memory are now generally available in the EU West and EU North 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. This is by far the largest-memory virtual machine offered on Azure. To learn more on how to leverage Mv2-series 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.