Microsoft recently announced the total availability (GA) of new storage-optimized Azure (VM) virtual machines. These VMs are Lasv3 and Lsv3 series designed to perform high-bandwidth and IOPS workloads, including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, and data analysis machines.
The Lasv3 and Lsv3 VM series provide faster processors, increased network and higher remote disk bandwidth than storage-optimized VMs. In particular:
In addition, the high-performance, low-latency and directly mapped local non-volatile memory storage (NVMe) are features of the new Lasv3 and Lsv3 VMs. In addition, virtual machines are available in capacities from 8 to 80 vCPUs – and have 8 GiB of vCPU memory and one 1.92TB NVMe SSD on 8 vCPUs, with the largest VM sizes offering up to 19.2TB (10×1.92TB). ).
Zac Christopherson, a human resources engineer at Databricks, said in a blog post on the Microsoft Tech Community about the new VM series:
At Databricks, we evaluated the Lsv3 and Lasv3 Azure virtual machines for the lake house, using a comprehensive series of benchmarks that reflect common and critical models present in the real-world analysis workload. V3 L-Series local NVMe devices and faster processor options allow Databricks Photon, the natural vectorized query engine, to deliver cost / performance for the most demanding storage workloads.
Note that Microsoft’s competitor in the cloud, AWS, also provides storage-optimized virtual machines with Amazon EC2 I3 instances.
Currently, Lsv3 VMs are available in more than 20 regions. Lasv3 virtual machines were initially available in the Central United States, the Eastern United States, the South Central United States, and Western Europe, with more to come. Finally, price details for virtual machines are available on the price pages for Windows and Linux.
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