Microsoft Announcing Storage Optimized VMs, L Series
4 new VM sizes from 4 cores, 32GB of memory and 678GB on SSD
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 28, 2017 at 2:44 pmThis article was written on a blog posted on March 15, 2017 by Jon Beck, principal program manager, Windows Azure Compute, Microsoft Corp.
Announcing Storage Optimized Virtual Machines, L Series
We are excited to introduce a new series of VM sizes. The L Series for storage optimizes workloads that require low latency, such as NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera and Redis). This new series of VMs offers from up to 32 CPU cores, using the Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 family, similar to the CPU performance of the G-Series that is currently available.
L Series offers 4 new VM sizes from 4 cores, 32 GB of memory, and 678GB of fast local SSD, scaling up to 32 cores with 256GB of memory, and over 5.6TB of local SSD. Please refer to the Azure VM pricing page for pricing details.
L Series VMs are available in the following regions:
• East US 2
• West US
• Southeast Asia
• Canada Central
• Canada East
• Australia East
Please check the Azure services by region site for future updates to the geographic availability of L Series.