Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3 series

The Memory-and-storage optimized Mbv3 VM (Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3) series are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and deliver higher remote disk storage performance. These new VM sizes offer up to 650,000 IOPS and 10 GBps 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 GBps 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 Mbv3 VM series make them particularly well suited for SQL Server workloads with high memory needs, such as critical 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.

Mbsv3 series (NVMe)

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 2
Write Accelerator: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disks: Not Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Max data disks Max uncached Premium SSD throughput: IOPS/MBps Max uncached Ultra Disk and Premium SSD V2 disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs Max network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_M16bs_v3 16 128 64 44,000/1,000 64,000/1,000 8 8,000
Standard_M32bs_v3 32 256 64 88,000/2,000 88,000/2,000 8 16,000
Standard_M48bs_v3 48 384 64 88,000/2,000 120,000/2,000 8 16,000
Standard_M64bs_v3 64 512 64 88,000/2, 000 160,000/2, 000 8 16,000
Standard_M96bs_v3 96 768 64 260,000/4,000 260,000/4,000 8 25,000
Standard_M128bs_v31 128 1024 64 260,000/4,000 400,000/4,000 8 40,000
Standard_M176bs_v31 176 1536 64 260,000/6,000 650,000/6,000 8 50,000

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

Mbdsv3 series (NVMe)

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 2
Write Accelerator: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB Max data disks Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/MBps Max uncached Premium SSD throughput: IOPS/MBps Max uncached Ultra Disk and Premium SSD V2 disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs Max network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_M16bds_v3 16 128 400 64 10,000/100 44,000/1,000 64,000/1,000 8 8,000
Standard_M32bds_v3 32 256 400 64 20,000/200 88,000/2,000 88,000/2,000 8 16,000
Standard_M48bds_v3 48 384 400 64 40,000/400 88,000/2,000 120,000/2,000 8 16,000
Standard_M64bds_v3 64 512 400 64 40,000/400 88,000/2,000 160,000/2,000 8 16,000
Standard_M96bds_v3 96 768 400 64 40,000/400 260,000/4,000 260,000/4,000 8 25,000
Standard_M128bds_v3 128 1,024 400 64 160,000/1600 260,000/4,000 400,000/4,000 8 40,000
Standard_M176bds_v3 176 1,536 400 64 160,000/1600 260,000/6,000 650,000/6,000 8 50,000
Standard_M64bds_1_v3 64 1397 3000 64 40,000/400 130,000/6,000 160, 000/6,000 8 20,000
Standard_M96bds_2_v3 96 1946 4500 64 40,000/400 130,000/8,000 260,000/8,000 8 20,000
Standard_M128bds_3_v31 128 2794 6000 64 160,000/1600 260,000/8,000 400,000/10,000 8 40,000
Standard_M176bds_4_v31 176 3892 8000 64 160,000/1600 260,000/8,000 650,000/10,000 8 40,000

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

Size table definitions

  • Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3), remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
  • Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
  • IOPS/MBps listed here refer to uncached mode for data disks.
  • To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.
  • IOPS spec is defined using common small random block sizes like 4KiB or 8KiB. Maximum IOPS is defined as "up-to" and measured using 4KiB random reads workloads.
  • TPUT spec is defined using common large sequential block sizes like 128KiB or 1024KiB. Maximum TPUT is defined as "up-to" and measured using 128KiB sequential reads workloads.

Other sizes and information