Kategorie: Microsoft Azure

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview

We are excited to announce the preview of Premium SSD v2, the next generation of Microsoft Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. This new disk offering provides the most advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads that require sub-millisecond disk latencies as well as high input/output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput—at a low cost. With Premium SSD v2, you can now provision up to 64TiBs of storage capacity, 80,000 IOPS, and 1,200 MBPS throughput on a single disk. With best-in-class IOPS and bandwidth, Premium SSD v2 provides the most flexible and scalable general-purpose block storage in the cloud, enabling you to meet the ever-growing demands of your production workloads such as—SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SAP, Cassandra, Mongo DB, big data, analytics, gaming, on virtual machines, or stateful containers. Moreover, with Premium SSD v2, you can provision granular disk sizes, IOPS, and throughput independently based on your workload needs, providing you more flexibility in managing performance and costs.

With the launch of Premium SSD v2, our Azure Disk Storage portfolio now includes one of the most comprehensive sets of disk storage offerings to satisfy workloads ranging from Tier-1 IOPS intensive workloads such as SAP HANA to general purpose workloads such as RDMS and NoSQL databases and cost-sensitive Dev/Test workloads.

Benefits of Premium SSD v2

As customers transition their production workloads to the cloud or deploy new cloud-native applications, balancing performance and cost is top of mind. For example, transaction-intensive database workloads may require high IOPS on a small disk size or a gaming application may need very high IOPS during peak hours. Similarly, big data applications like Cloudera/Hadoop may require very high throughput at a low cost. Hence, customers need the flexibility to scale their IOPS and throughput independent of the disk size. With Premium SSD v2, you can customize disk performance to precisely meet your workload requirements or seasonal demands, without the need to provision additional storage capacity.

Premium SSD v2 also enables you to provision storage capacity ranging from 1 GiB up to 64 TiB with GiB increments. All Premium SSD v2 disks provide a baseline performance of 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/sec. If your disk requires higher performance, you can provision the required IOPS and throughput at a low cost, up to the max limits shown below. You can dynamically scale up or scale down the IOPS and throughput as needed without downtime, allowing you to manage disk performance cost-effectively while avoiding the maintenance overhead of striping multiple disks to achieve more performance. Summarizing the key benefits:

Granular disk size in 1 GiB increments.
Independent provisioning of IOPS, throughput, and GiB.
Consistent sub-millisecond latency.
Easier maintenance with scaling performance up and down without downtime.

Premium SSD v2, like all other Azure Disk Storage offerings, will provide our industry-leading data durability and high availability at general availability.

Following is a summary comparing Premium SSD v2 with the current Premium SSD and Ultra Disk.

 

Ultra Disk

Premium SSD v2

Premium SSD

Disk Size

4 GiB – 64 TiB

1 GiB – 64 TiB

4 GiB – 32 TiB

Baseline IOPS

Varies by disk size

3,000 IOPS free

Varies by disk size

Baseline throughput

Varies by disk size

125 MBPS free

Varies by disk size

Peak IOPS

160,000 IOPS

80,000 IOPS

20,000 IOPS

Peak Throughput

4,000 MBPS

1,200 MBPS

900 MBPS

Durability

99.999999999% durability

(~0% annual failure rate)

99.999999999% durability

(~0% annual failure rate)

99.999999999% durability

(~0% annual failure rate)

Supported Azure Virtual Machines

Premium SSD v2 can be used with any premium storage-enabled virtual machines sizes enabling you to leverage a diverse set of virtual machine sizes. Currently, Premium SSD v2 can only be used as data disks. Premium SSDs and Standard SSDs can be used as OS disks for virtual machines using Premium SSD v2 data disks.

Pricing

Premium SSD v2 disks are billed hourly based on the provisioned capacity, IOPS, and MBPS. Let’s take an example of a disk that you provision with 100 GiB capacity, 5000 IOPS, and 150 MB/sec throughput.

The disks are billed per GiB of the provisioned capacity. Hence, you will be charged for 100 GiB of the provisioned capacity.
The disks are billed for any additional IOPS provisioned over the free baseline of 3,000 IOPS. In this case, since you provisioned 5000 IOPS, you will be billed for the additional 2,000 IOPS.
The disks are billed for any additional throughput over the free baseline throughput of 125 MB/s. In this case, since you provisioned 150 MB/sec throughput, you will be billed for the additional 25 MB/s throughput.

You can learn more on the Azure Managed Disks pricing page.

Getting Started

Premium SSD v2 is currently available in preview in select regions. If you are interested in participating in the preview, you can request access to get started. Once enrolled in the preview program, you will be able to create and manage Premium SSD v2 via the Azure portal, PowerShell, and CLI SDKs. You can refer to the Premium SSD v2 documentation to learn more.

We look forward to hearing your feedback. Please email us at AzureDisks@microsoft.com with any questions.
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Modernize with Azure Migrate

With the pandemic mostly behind us, several large economies have opened in some shape or form. This, despite the uneven supply of goods and services and higher than usual energy costs. The higher energy cost and the resulting increase in the cost of doing business, has led to a tighter economic outlook. Coupled with long lead times for required parts and continued remote work, datacenter management is harder and costlier than it has been. However, maintaining and growing any business requires additional information technology (IT) resources. Thus, there is an increased need for IT solutions to maintain business continuity and sustain innovation. Hyperscalers such as Microsoft’s Azure fill this need and are less affected by these constraints due to the economies of scale. Further, the cloud consumption model allows customers to quickly scale resources up or down to support agile businesses. This is why public cloud spend continues to accelerate and the top cloud initiatives for all organizations are migrating more loads, optimizing existing use, and modernizing through platform as a service (PaaS) or software as a service (SaaS)1.

Customer requirements

The customer requirement is to stay competitive, both on the technical and business fronts, to ensure continued success. Technical competency requires an agile and innovative IT platform with data analytics to provide insights that can help differentiate from the competition. It would be ideal if such an innovative platform is available at a lower cost. Incidentally, modernizing existing IT infrastructure, applications, and data to PaaS/SaaS models in the cloud, delivers on all these requirements, leading to a higher return on investment (ROI) for the customer.

The higher efficiency and lower cost due to the adoption of modern cloud-native architectures, such as PaaS and SaaS, also leads to greater levels of flexibility. Thus, setting the stage for the customer to realize greater value as they progress from IaaS to PaaS and onto SaaS models. Please download our analyst report for details on options and value due to application modernization in Azure.

Microsoft’s commitment to modernization

This week at Microsoft Inspire, we are highlighting our commitment to modernization with integrated, at-scale modernization of ASP.NET applications to Azure Application Service. Also, in preview is Azure Migrate’s support of discovery and assessment of SQL Server running in Microsoft Hyper-V and Physical environments and IaaS services of other public clouds. Please see our tech community blog for more details on this, and other Azure Migrate features available for Linux and Windows workloads.

Enabling deeper integration with our ISV partners

Azure Migrate’s extensible framework is ideal for deeper integration of first-party features to drive automation, while also leveraging third-party tools. Here is a brief view of partner capabilities that can be added to this flexible framework:

Over the years, enterprises have built and expanded custom applications, which require modernization to better support fast-changing business needs. See how Microsoft and CAST partner by combining Azure Migrate and software intelligence produced by CAST technology to automate migration and modernization under the Azure Migration and Modernization Program (AMMP).
Operability of your cloud infrastructure and workloads is key to cloud adoption success and Azure landing zones provide prescriptive guidance to set a well architected foundation for your Azure infrastructure. In partnership with HashiCorp and our Terraform Azure community, we now have the reference implementation for deploying and managing Azure resources at enterprise scale.

Learn more

Attend this Microsoft Inspire on-demand session to learn more about cloud migration and modernization. Check out this FastTrack link for moving to Azure efficiently and get best practice guidance from the Azure migration and modernization center (AMMC). AMMP is now one comprehensive program for all migration and modernization needs of our customers. Learn more and join AMMP today.

Sources: 

1. Trends in Cloud Computing: 2022 State of the Cloud Report, Flexera.com.
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Accelerating capital markets workloads for Murex on Azure

The financial services industry is constantly evolving to meet customer and regulatory demands. It is facing a variety of challenges spanning people, processes, and technology. Financial institutions (FIs) need to continuously accelerate to achieve technology and innovation while maintaining scale, quality, speed, and safety. Simultaneously, they need to handle evolving regulatory frameworks, manage risk, digitally transform, process financial transaction volumes, and accelerate cost reductions and restructuring efforts.

Murex is a leading global software provider of trading, risk management, processing operations, and post-trade solutions for capital markets. FIs around the world deploy Murex’s MX.3 platform to better manage risk, accelerate transformation, and simplify compliance while driving revenue growth.

Murex MX.3 on Azure

Murex MX.3 has been certified for Microsoft Azure since version 3.1.35. We have been collaborating with Murex and global strategic partners like Accenture and DXC to provide Murex customers with a simple way to create and scale MX.3 infrastructure and achieve agility in business transformation. With the recent version 3.1.48, SQL Server is supported and customers can now benefit from the performance, scalability, resilience, and cost savings facilitated by SQL Server. With SQL Server IaaS Extension, Murex customers can run SQL Server virtual machines (VMs) in Azure with PaaS capabilities for Windows OS (with automated patching setting disabled in order to prevent the installation of a cumulative update that may not yet be supported by MX3).

Architecture

Murex customers can now refer to the architecture to implement MX.3 application on Azure. Azure enables a secure, reliable, and efficient environment, significantly reducing the infrastructure cost needed to operate the MX.3 environment and providing scalability and a highly performant environment. Customers running MX.3 on Azure can take advantage of multilayered security provided by Microsoft across physical data centers, infrastructure, and operations in Azure. They can benefit from the Compliance Program that helps accelerate cloud adoption with proactive compliance assurance for highly critical and regulated workloads. Customers can maximize their existing on-premises investments using an effective hybrid approach. Azure provides a holistic, seamless, and more secure approach to innovation across customers’ on-premises, multicloud, and edge environments.

The architecture is designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery. Murex customers can achieve threat intelligence and traffic control using Azure Firewall, cost optimization using Reserved Instances and VM scale sets, and high storage throughout using Azure NetApp Files Ultra Storage.

“With the deployment of large scale—originally specialized platform-based—Murex workloads, Azure NetApp Files has proven to deliver the ideal Azure landing zone for storage-performance intensive, mission-critical enterprise applications and to live up to its promise to Migrate the Un-migratable," says Geert van Teylingen, Azure NetApp Files Principal Product Manager from NetApp.

Customers running Murex on Azure

Customers around the world are migrating the Murex platform from on-premises to Azure.

ABN AMRO has moved their MX.3 trading and treasury front-to-back-to-risk platform to Azure, achieving flexibility, agility, and improved time to market. ABN AMRO’s journey to Azure progressed from proof of concept to production, with the Murex MX.3 platform now entirely operational on Azure.

“The key focus for us was always to make sure that we could automate most processes while preserving its operational excellence and key features,” says Kees van Duin, IT Integrator at ABN AMRO.

“Thanks to Microsoft, we were able to preserve nearly 90 percent of our original design and move our platform to the cloud, while in-production, as efficiently as possible. We couldn’t be happier with the result,” he continues.

For Pavilion Energy, Upskills helped drive implementation for Murex Trading in Azure, helping reduce the risk of errors, increase the volume of trading activities, and optimize the management of their Murex MX.3 platform environments.

“We have been working on the Murex technology for over 10 years. Implementing Murex Trading Platform fully into Azure has proven to be the right decision to reduce the risk of delivery, optimize the environments management, and provide sustainable solutions and support to Pavilion Energy” says Thong Tran, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Upskills.

Strategic partners helping accelerate Murex workloads

Murex customers can modernize MX.3 workloads, reduce time-to-market and operational costs, and increase acceleration, leveraging accelerators, scripts, and blueprints from our partners—Accenture and DXC.

Accenture and Microsoft have decades of experience partnering with each other and building joint solutions that help customers achieve their goals. Leveraging our strategic alliance to better serve our customers, Accenture has designed and created specific accelerators, tools, and methodologies for MX.3 on Azure that could help organizations develop richer DevOps and become more agile while controlling costs.

Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company, with Microsoft as a global strategic partner for more than 30 years and Murex as a top-tier alliance partner for more than 13 years, helps modernize solutions to connect people, data, and processes with tangible business results. DXC has developed execution frameworks that adopt market best practices to accelerate and minimize risks of cloud migration of MX.3 to Azure.

Keeping pace with the changing regulatory and compliance constraints, financial innovation, computation complexity, and cyber threats is essential for FIs. FIs around the world are relying on Murex MX.3 to accelerate transformation and drive growth and innovation while complying with complex regulations. Customers are using Azure to enhance business agility and operation efficiency, reduce risk and total cost of ownership, and achieve scalability and robustness.

Additional resources

Microsoft and Murex team to help FIs move to Azure
Murex MX.3 architecture
ABN AMRO digital transformation journey with Murex

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Digital transformation for manufacturers requires additional IT/OT security

While every industry is vulnerable to a ransomware attack, manufacturers are at a particular risk. While digitization and automation have helped transform the industry, it has simultaneously opened up new attack vectors within organizations. Now the most targeted industry, the manufacturing industry, has seen a 300 percent increase in cyberattacks in a single year.

Beyond the tremendous growth in attacks, manufacturing companies make an ideal target for hackers due to the high value of the companies themselves, the high costs of unplanned downtime, and the highly visible impact that downtime has on consumers’ daily lives. With the risks so high, an enterprise-level solution that provides visibility and protection like Microsoft Defender for IoT is essential.

Visibility is the first step to network protection

The number of connected industrial control system (ICS)/operational technology (OT) devices in manufacturing facilities continues to grow. The benefits for the operations side of the house are clear, but the lack of visibility into them poses serious security risks for chief information security officers (CISOs).

Manufacturers often have no way to identify and monitor what all their connected devices are doing and with whom or what they are communicating. Worse, all too often they lack even a simple inventory of all the connected devices they have in their facilities. In case of an attack, the lack of visibility means that they have no way of tracing the attack vector the hacker took, making them vulnerable to a second wave and delaying recovery and remediation.

Continuous monitoring without impacting productivity

Microsoft Defender for IoT not only creates asset maps within minutes of being turned on, but it also provides continuous monitoring of every device in every facility around the world. Microsoft’s Section 52 has access to tens of trillions of identity, endpoint, and other signals each day. The threat intelligence from this specialized IoT and ICS research team produces high-impact insights that help keep manufacturers safe from attacks.

The agentless nature of the system protects companies without impacting production, no matter the topology of the network or the regulations governing the industry. And, with round-the-clock protection, Microsoft Defender for IoT can alert the SecOps team about an intrusion any time, any place.

Security for networks in an age of IT and OT convergence

As their digital transformations have progressed, manufacturers have seen their IT and OT environments converge. The air gap between them that ensured production would continue even if IT assets were taken offline is increasingly a thing of the past. With these trendlines, forward-thinking CISOs and their boards are taking proactive steps to protect the entire company from cyber-physical attacks that could have huge costs to safety, production, reputation, and the bottom line.

Fortunately, Microsoft Defender for IoT can usually be deployed in less than a single day per facility and works right out of the box for large enterprises and small, niche facilities. With it, defenders of OT networks have a powerful new tool at their disposal to help keep hackers out and people, production, and profits safe.

For more information on how Microsoft Defender for IoT can help protect your business, visit Microsoft Defender for IoT | Microsoft Azure today.
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What is desktop as a service (DaaS) and how can it help your organization?

Today’s workers want the freedom to respond to email and collaborate with colleagues from anywhere, on any device—whether they’re working at their kitchen table, at the airport waiting for their flight to board, or in the carpool line waiting for their kids to get out of school. The pandemic proved that remote teams could succeed, no matter where they worked and how far-flung they were.

Even so, many companies are still scrambling to accommodate the technological needs of their hybrid and remote workers. Desktop as a service, sometimes known by the acronym DaaS, can help.

What is desktop as a service (DaaS)?

DaaS is a high-performing, secure, cost-effective type of desktop virtualization. DaaS frees businesses from tethering their computer operating systems and productivity software to any physical hardware. Instead, businesses can use DaaS to access virtual desktops over the internet from a cloud provider. Cloud providers that offer this service distribute and manage virtual desktops from their own datacenters. 

DaaS vs. on-premises

DaaS solutions differ from on-premises software in a number of ways, most notably:

Pricing. With DaaS, companies can avoid making advance purchases of hardware that they anticipate their employees needing, such as expensive desktops and laptops. Instead, companies pay cloud providers only for the data, resources, and services that they use.

Scalability. Cloud providers offer companies the freedom to use any amount of desktops on a fluctuating basis. This gives companies instant access to the precise number of desktops they need, whenever and wherever they need them.

Management. Cloud providers offering DaaS conduct maintenance, data storage, updates, backup, and other desktop management for companies that outsource these solutions. DaaS providers often manage their customers’ desktops, applications, and security as well.

What are the benefits of DaaS?

The financial, performance, and administrative benefits of using DaaS are numerous. Let’s look at some of the biggest reasons businesses use this type of desktop virtualization.

Enables remote work. The rise of hybrid and remote workplaces calls for a different approach to accessing applications and data. With DaaS, IT teams can easily move data between different platforms and users can easily access the data they need from multiple machines, no matter where they work.

Supports BYOD. Besides freeing employees from physical offices, DaaS can free employees from solely working on company-issued devices or with one particular device. With DaaS, IT teams can more easily support bring your own device, or BYOD, policies that let employees work on their own phones, tablets, and laptops.

Simplifies desktop management. For IT teams, outsourcing the deployment, configuration, and management of virtual desktops helps reduce the administrative load. The ability to quickly scale up or down the use of desktops, applications, and data based on user need also helps to ease IT duties.

Helps increase security. DaaS poses fewer security risks because the data resides in the cloud provider’s datacenter, not on the laptops, tablets, and phones that employees use. If a computer or device is lost or stolen, it can easily be disconnected from the cloud service.

Reduces IT costs. DaaS solutions save businesses money by shifting IT costs from traditional on-premises hardware and software purchased up front and in bulk to cloud-based services and desktops purchased as needed. DaaS can run on devices that require far less computing power than a standard laptop or desktop machine, which helps companies save money. Allowing employees to use their own devices also helps save on hardware costs, as does reducing the workload of IT teams.

Extends the life of legacy machines. Companies that lack the immediate funds to upgrade all of their outdated machines can use DaaS to install a newer operating system on them. Serving the newer operating system from the cloud is a more affordable prospect than replacing an entire fleet of on-premises equipment all at once.

Real-world uses for DaaS

Cloud providers usually offer two flavors of DaaS, persistent desktop and nonpersistent desktop:

Persistent desktop offers the greatest degree of application compatibility and personalization and is necessary for users that require elevated permissions. This usually results in a higher cost per user than a nonpersistent desktop. A persistent desktop is a good fit for developers and IT professionals.
Nonpersistent desktop offers the lowest cost solution by separating the personalization layer from the underlying operating system. This enables any user to log onto any virtual machine (VM) and maintain a personalized environment. This option is a good fit for knowledge workers and task workers.

We’ve already looked at how DaaS benefits remote and hybrid workforces, BYOD programs, and companies looking to optimize their IT assets and costs. But there are many other business uses for DaaS, including:

Modernizing call centers. Organizations with shift workers who require the same software to do task-based work can optimize IT resources by using nonpersistent desktops and remote applications.
Accelerating deployment and decommissioning. Nonpersistent desktops can help seasonal businesses that routinely undergo staffing fluctuations reduce the time and costs associated with deploying and decommissioning desktop users.
Granting contractors and partners secure data access. Companies can increase the login security of their contractors, vendors, and business partners by enabling them to work on virtual desktops from their own devices.
Ensuring business continuity. Companies can help safeguard their data against natural disasters and other threats to daily operations by outsourcing desktop management to cloud providers that offer airtight data protection at remote datacenters.
Increasing sustainability. By using cloud-based virtual desktops to reduce the amount of hardware used onsite, businesses can decrease their power consumption and electronic waste, thus reducing their environmental impact.

Explore the flexibility of Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and application solution that enables your remote workforce to stay productive regardless of location or device—all while being secure, scalable, and cost-effective. With Azure Virtual Desktop, you can:

Deliver Windows 10 and Windows 11 desktops virtually anywhere. Give employees the only virtual desktop solution that’s fully optimized for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Microsoft 365 with multisession capabilities—no matter what device they’re using, no matter where they’re using it.

Keep your applications and data secure and compliant. Use the built-in, reliable security features of Azure to stay ahead of potential threats and take remedial action against breaches.

Simplify deployment and management. The Azure portal enables you to configure your network settings, add users, deploy desktops and applications, and enable security with just a few clicks. Citrix and VMware customers also can streamline the delivery of virtual desktops and applications with Azure.

Reduce costs with multisession and existing licenses. Optimize costs with the eligible Microsoft 365 or Windows licenses that you already have. Use Windows 10 and Windows 11 multisession support to reduce infrastructure costs. Plus, take advantage of flexible, consumption-based pricing to pay for only what you use.

To explore how to get started with Azure Virtual Desktop, read the Quickstart Guide to Azure Virtual Desktop. In it, you’ll find:

Guidance on planning a successful deployment of Azure Virtual Desktop.
Steps to set up and optimize your virtual desktops with just a few clicks.
Best practices, recommendations, and troubleshooting tips.

If you’d like to continue your exploration of Azure:

Try Azure Virtual Desktop free.
Get started with 12 months of free services.

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Choose the right size for your workload with NVads A10 v5 virtual machines, now generally available

Visualization workloads entail a wide range of use cases: from computer-aided design (CAD), to virtual desktops, to high-end simulations. Traditionally, when running these graphics-heavy visualization workloads in the cloud, customers have been limited to purchasing virtual machines (VMs) with full GPUs, which increased costs and limited flexibility. So, in 2019, we introduced the first GPU-partitioned (GPU-P) virtual machine offering in the cloud. And today, your options just got wider. Introducing the general availability of NVads A10 v5 GPU accelerated virtual machines, now available in US South Central, US West2, US West3, Europe West, and Europe North regions. Azure is the first public cloud to offer GPU partitioning (GPU-P) on NVIDIA GPUs.

NVads A10 v5 virtual machines feature NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPUs, up to 72 AMD EPYC™ 74F3 vCPUs with clock frequencies up to 4.0 GHz, 880 GB of RAM, 256 MB of L3 cache, and simultaneous multithreading (SMT).

Pay-as-you-go, one-year and three-year Azure Reserved Instances, and Spot virtual machines pricing for Windows and Linux deployments are now available.

Flexible and affordable NVIDIA GPU-powered workstations in the cloud

Many enterprises today use NVIDIA vGPU technology on-premises to create virtual GPUs that can be shared across multiple virtual machines. We are always innovating to provide cloud infrastructure that makes it easy for customers to migrate to the cloud. By working with NVIDIA, we have implemented SR-IOV-based GPU partitioning that provides customers cost-effective options, similar to the vGPU profiles configured on-premises to pick the right-sized GPU-powered virtual machine for the workload. The SR-IOV-based GPU partitioning provides a strong, hardware-backed security boundary with predictable performance for each virtual machine.

With support for NVIDIA vGPU, customers can select from virtual machines with one-sixth of an A10 GPU and scale all the way up to two full A10 GPU configurations. This offers cost-effective entry-level and low-intensity GPU workloads on NVIDIA GPUs, while still giving customers the option to scale up to powerful full-GPU and multi-GPU processing power. Each GPU partition in the NVads A10 v5 series virtual machines includes the full NVIDIA RTX(GRID) license and customers can either deploy a single virtual workstation per user or offer multiple sessions using the Windows Enterprise multi-session operating system. Our customers love the integrated license validation feature as it simplifies the user experience by eliminating the need to deploy dedicated license server infrastructure and provides customers with a unified pricing model.

"The NVIDIA A10 GPU-accelerated instances in Azure with support for GPU partitioning are transformational for customers seeking cost-effective cloud options for graphics- and compute-intensive workloads. Now, enterprises can access powerful RTX Virtual Workstation instances accelerated by NVIDIA Ampere architecture-based A10 GPUs—sized to meet the performance requirements of creative and technical professionals working across industries such as manufacturing, architecture, and media and entertainment."— Anne Hecht, Senior Director, Product Marketing, NVIDIA.

NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations include the latest enhancements in AI, ray tracing, and simulation to enable incredible 3D designs, photorealistic simulations, and stunning visual effects—at faster speeds than ever.

Pick the right-sized GPU virtual machine for any workload

The NVads A10 v5 virtual machine series is designed to offer the right choice for any workload and provide the optimum configurations for both single-user and multi-session environments. The flexible GPU-partitioned virtual machine sizes enable a wide variety of graphics, video, and AI workloads—some of which weren’t previously possible. These include virtual production and visual effects, engineering design and simulation, game development and streaming, virtual desktops/workstations, and many more.

“In the world of CAD design, cost performance and flexibility are of prime importance for our users. Microsoft has completed extensive testing with Siemens NX and we found significant benefits in performance for multiple user scenarios. With GPU partitioning, Microsoft Azure can now enable multiple users to use Siemens NX and efficiently utilize GPU resources offering customers great performance at a reasonable hardware price point.”—George Rendell, Vice President Product Management, Siemens NX.

High performance for GPU-accelerated graphics applications

The NVIDIA A10 Tensor core GPUs in the NVads A10 v5 virtual machines offer great performance for graphics applications. The AMD EPYC™ 74F3 vCPUs with clock frequencies up to 4.0 GHz offer impressive performance for single-threaded applications.

Next steps

For more information on topics covered here, see the following documentation:

NVads A10 v5 virtual machine documentation
Virtual machine pricing
Learn more about Azure HPC + AI
Read about visualization workloads on Azure

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