NV sizes series

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2024-10-18

Important

NV and NV_Promo series Azure virtual machines (VMs) will be retired on September 6, 2023. For more information, see the NV and NV_Promo retirement information. For how to migrate your workloads to other VM sizes, see the NV and NV_Promo series migration guide.

This retirement announcement doesn't apply to NVv3 and NVv4 series VMs.

The NV-series virtual machines are powered by NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs and NVIDIA GRID technology for desktop accelerated applications and virtual desktops where customers are able to visualize their data or simulations. Users are able to visualize their graphics intensive workflows on the NV instances to get superior graphics capability and additionally run single precision workloads such as encoding and rendering. NV-series VMs are also powered by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) CPUs.

Each GPU in NV instances comes with a GRID license. This license gives you the flexibility to use an NV instance as a virtual workstation for a single user, or 25 concurrent users can connect to the VM for a virtual application scenario.

Host specifications

Part	Quantity ^{Count Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.}
Processor	6 - 24 vCPUs	Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) [x86-64]
Memory	56 - 224 GiB
Local Storage	1 Disk	340 - 1440 GiB
Remote Storage	24 - 64
Network	1 - 4 NICs
Accelerators	1/2 - 2 GPUs	Nvidia Tesla M60 GPU (16GB)

Feature support

Premium Storage: Not Supported
Premium Storage caching: Not Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Not Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Not 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_NV6	6	56
Standard_NV12	12	112
Standard_NV24	24	224

VM Basics resources

Check vCPU quotas

Local (temp) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Temp Storage Disks (Qty.)	Temp Disk Size (GiB)
Standard_NV6	1	340
Standard_NV12	1	680
Standard_NV24	1	1440

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Temp disk speed often differs between RR (Random Read) and RW (Random Write) operations. RR operations are typically faster than RW operations. The RW speed is usually slower than the RR speed on series where only the RR speed value is listed.
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.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Remote (uncached) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.)
Standard_NV6	24
Standard_NV12	48
Standard_NV24	64

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.
²Special Storage refers to either Ultra Disk or Premium SSD v2 storage.
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.
Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Network interface info for each size

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)
Standard_NV6	1
Standard_NV12	2
Standard_NV24	4

Networking resources

Table definitions

Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Size Name	Accelerators (Qty.)	Accelerator-Memory (GB)
Standard_NV6	1/2	8
Standard_NV12	1	16
Standard_NV24	2	32

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

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