Today we are announcing the validation of Azure Stack systems with the new family of Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, also known as “Purley”. With Azure Stack running on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, customers can expect a boost in performance and capacity. Please note that results will vary based on configuration. Intel Xeon Scalable Processors offer new IO stack improvements, support up to 28 cores per CPU, and offer a 50% improvement in memory bandwidth, up to 1.5TB.
Availability dates of these new systems will vary by hardware vendor, including Cisco, Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Lenovo, and Wortmann/Terra, starting in November 2017 and continuing through February 2018. Details can be obtained by reaching out to those hardware vendors directly.
Even with these new systems, customers can confidently continue current Azure Stack purchases and deployments. Availability of Azure Stack systems with Intel Xeon E5 v4 family, also known as “Broadwell”, will continue for up to 12 months, depending on the hardware vendor. The scaling architecture for Azure Stack accounts for multi-generational hardware in the same instance by enabling scale units using different hardware. As a consequence, when this capability is added, customers can increment capacity with multi-generational hardware under the same cloud end point.
Quelle: Azure
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