Mbsv3 sizes series

The Memory-and-storage optimized Mbsv3 series is based on the fourth generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and delivers higher remote disk storage performance. These new VM sizes offer up to 650,000 IOPS and 10 GB/s of remote disk storage throughput (Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk), up to 4 TiB of RAM and up to 650,000 IOPS and 10 GB/s throughput to remote disk storage (with NVMe interface by using Ultra Disk and Premium SSD v2).

The increased remote storage performance of these VMs is ideal for storage throughput-intensive workloads such as relational databases and data analytics applications.

The resource allocation and high-performance capabilities of the Mbsv3 VM series make them particularly well suited for SQL Server workloads with high memory needs. Workloads such as online transaction processing (OLTP), data analytics, in-memory databases, data warehousing, and the consolidation of SQL Server workloads for efficient management of multiple SQL Server instances.

Host specifications

Part Quantity
Count Units
Specs
SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.
Processor 16 - 176 vCPUs Intel Xeon 4th generation Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64]
Memory 128 - 1536 GiB
Local Storage None
Remote Storage 64 Disks 44,000 - 260,000 IOPS
1,000 - 6,000 MBps
Network 8 NICs 8,000 - 50,000 Mbps
Accelerators None

Feature support

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Not Supported
Write Accelerator: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Not Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Sizes in series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name vCPUs (Qty.) Memory (GB)
Standard_M16bs_v3 16 128
Standard_M32bs_v3 32 256
Standard_M48bs_v3 48 384
Standard_M64bs_v3 64 512
Standard_M96bs_v3 96 768
Standard_M128bs_v31 128 1024
Standard_M176bs_v31 176 1536

1 Disable SMT to run SQL Server on a VM with more than 64 vCores per NUMA node.

VM Basics resources

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

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