Public Preview: 7th generation Intel-based VMs – Dlsv7/Dsv7/Esv7

Public Preview: 7th generation Intel-based VMs – Dlsv7/Dsv7/Esv7

Announcing the preview of new Azure Dlsv7/Dsv7 General Purpose and Esv7 Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processors (Granite Rapids).

The latest Azure Intel-based v7 VMs are designed to power ever increasing compute demands in today’s data center environment and deliver exceptional performance across a wide range of workloads, from traditional enterprise applications to cutting edge AI.

These VMs deliver several important features and improvements compared previous generation (v6) Intel-based VMs including:

• Up to 15% better general compute performance, powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 CPUs with turbo frequencies up to 4.2 GHz and up to 2x higher memory bandwidth
• Expanded sizes and memory capacity: Dsv7 and Esv7 VMs now scale up to 372 vCPUs with Esv7 VMs enabling up to 2.8TiB of memory
• Increased networking and remote storage performance driven by latest Azure Boost capabilities:

1. Up to 400 Gbps networking bandwidth with the largest size
2. Up to 800k IOPS and 20 GBps throughput to Premium v2 and Ultra Disk remote storage with the largest size

Join the Preview
Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VM sizes with and without local NVMe temp disks will be available to test in preview in the East US 2 region. To request access to the preview, please fill out the survey form here. We look forward to hearing from you.

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support in OpenShift Virtualization
Azure NetApp Files now enables fast virtual machine (VM) provisioning, instant cloning, and live migration in OpenShift Virtualization. It offers seamlessly scalable storage with predictable performance and enterprise data management for VM workloads from infrastructure VMs to business-critical databases. Support for Azure NetApp Files in OpenShift Virtualization is now in preview and is available in all Azure regions where Azure NetApp Files and Azure Red Hat OpenShift are offered.

Public Preview: Azure Command Launcher for Java
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we announced the Public Preview of the Azure Command Launcher for Java, a new JVM launcher optimized specifically for Azure. This tool provides better default ergonomics for Java applications running in containers and virtual machines, ensuring more efficient use of resources right from the start.
By using Azure Command Launcher for Java to automatically set JVM parameters tailored for cloud deployments, your workloads have reduced wasted memory and CPU cycles, improving first-deploy performance, and enhancing cost efficiency. This is ideal for developers, Ops, and SREs, who want better JVM defaults without diving deep into JVM tuning guides, and develop and deploy cloud-native microservices.

Key Features

1. Automatically benefits from battle-tested defaults for cloud-native and container workloads.
2. Optimizes resource utilization by setting JVM parameters tailored for cloud deployments.
3. Improves likelihood of first-deploy performance and cost efficiency.