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Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets ✔️ Uniform scale sets
The 'L' family of VM size series are one of Azure's storage-optimized VM instances. They're designed for workloads that require high disk throughput and I/O, such as databases, big data applications, and data warehousing. Equipped with high disk throughput and large local disk storage capacities, L-series VMs support applications and services that benefit from low latency and high sequential read and write speeds. This makes them particularly well-suited for handling tasks like large-scale log processing, real-time big data analytics, and scenarios involving large databases that perform frequent disk operations, ensuring efficient performance for storage-heavy applications.
Workloads and use cases
Big Data Applications: L-family VMs are perfect for big data applications that need to process, analyze, and manipulate large datasets stored directly on local disks, benefiting from the high I/O performance.
Database Servers: L-family VMs provide the necessary local disk performance for SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other database servers that benefit from fast access to disk storage.
File Servers: L-family VMs can be used effectively as file servers within a network, handling large files and serving them with high throughput, especially useful in environments with large media files.
Video Editing and Rendering: The high disk throughput and capacity of L-family VMs are beneficial for video editing and rendering tasks, where large video files are frequently read and written to disk.
Series in family
Lsv2-series
The Lsv2-series features high throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage running on the AMD EPYC™ 7551 processor with an all core boost of 2.55GHz and a max boost of 3.0GHz. The Lsv2-series VMs come in sizes from 8 to 80 vCPU in a simultaneous multi-threading configuration. There is 8 GiB of memory per vCPU, and one 1.92TB NVMe SSD M.2 device per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2TB (10x1.92TB) available on the L80s v2.
View the full Lsv2-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 8 - 80 vCPUs | AMD EPYC 7551 (Naples) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 64 - 640 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 Temp Disk 1 - 10 NVMe Disks |
80 - 800 GiB Temp Disks 1.92 TiB NVMe Disks |
| Remote Storage | 16 - 32 Disks | 8,000 - 80,000 IOPS 160 - 1,400 MBps |
| Network | 2 - 8 NICs | 3,200 - 16,000+ Mbps Interfaces: NetVSC, ConnectX |
| Accelerators | None |
Lsv3-series
The Lsv3-series of Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs) features high-throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage. These VMs run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This new processor features an all-core turbo clock speed of 3.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. The Lsv3-series VMs are available in sizes from 8 to 80 vCPUs. There are 8 GiB of memory allocated per vCPU, and one 1.92TB NVMe SSD device allocated per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2TB (10x1.92TB) available on the L80s_v3 size.
Note
The Lsv3-series VMs are optimized to use the local disk on the node attached directly to the VM rather than using durable data disks. This method allows for greater IOPS and throughput for your workloads. The Lsv3, Lasv3, Lsv2, and Ls-series VMs don't support the creation of a host cache to increase the IOPS achievable by durable data disks.
The high throughput and IOPS of the local disk makes the Lsv3-series VMs ideal for NoSQL stores such as Apache Cassandra and MongoDB. These stores replicate data across multiple VMs to achieve persistence in the event of the failure of a single VM.
View the full Lsv3-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 8 - 80 vCPUs | Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 64 - 640 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 Temp Disk 1 - 10 NVMe Disks |
80 - 800 GiB Temp Disks 1.92 TiB NVMe Disks |
| Remote Storage | 16 - 32 Disks | 12,800 - 80,000 IOPS 290 - 2,160 MBps |
| Network | 4 - 8 NICs | 12,500 - 32,000 Mbps Interfaces: NetVSC, ConnectX |
| Accelerators | None |
Lasv3-series
The Lasv3-series of Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VMs) features high-throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage. These VMs run on an AMD 3rd Generation EPYC™ 7763v processor in a multi-threaded configuration with an L3 cache of up to 256 MB that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. The Lasv3-series VMs are available in sizes from 8 to 80 vCPUs in a simultaneous multi-threading configuration. There are 8 GiB of memory per vCPU, and one 1.92 TB NVMe SSD device per 8 vCPUs, with up to 19.2 TB (10x1.92TB) available on the L80as_v3 size.
Note
The Lasv3-series VMs are optimized to use the local disk on the node attached directly to the VM rather than using durable data disks. This method allows for greater IOPS and throughput for your workloads. The Lsv3, Lasv3, Lsv2, and Ls-series don't support the creation of a local cache to increase the IOPS achievable by durable data disks.
The high throughput and IOPS of the local disk makes the Lasv3-series VMs ideal for NoSQL stores such as Apache Cassandra and MongoDB. These stores replicate data across multiple VMs to achieve persistence in the event of the failure of a single VM.
View the full Lasv3-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 8 - 80 vCPUs | AMD EPYC 7763v (Genoa) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 64 - 640 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 Temp Disk 1 - 10 NVMe Disks |
80 - 800 GiB Temp Disks 1.92 TiB NVMe Disks |
| Remote Storage | 16 - 32 Disks | 12,800 - 80,000 IOPS 200 - 1,400 MBps |
| Network | 4 - 8 NICs | 12,500 - 32,000 Mbps Interfaces: NetVSC, ConnectX |
| Accelerators | None |
Lasv5-series
The Lasv5-series of Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) features high-throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage. These VMs utilize AMD's fifth Generation EPYC™ 9005 processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz. The Lasv5-series VMs are available in sizes from 2 to 160 vCPUs, with 8 GiB of memory allocated per vCPU and 240 GB of local NVMe temp disk capacity allocated per vCPU, with up to 30.7 TB (8x3.84 TB) of local temp disk capacity available on the largest size.
Lasv5-series VMs are well suited for scale-up or scale-out storage workloads that need a balance of SSD capacity, compute, and memory. These VMs are perfect for big data, relational, NoSQL databases, data analytics, and data warehousing workloads. Examples include Cassandra, MongoDB, Cloudera, Spark, Elastic Search, Redis, and other data-intensive applications.
Lasv5-series VMs support Standard SSD, Standard HDD, and Premium SSD remote disk types. You can also attach Ultra Disk storage based on its regional availability. Remote Disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines. For more information, see pricing for disks.
View the full Lasv5-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, and other details |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 2 - 160 vCPUs | AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 16 - 1,280 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 - 8 Disks | 480 - 3,840 GB 150,000 - 9,600,000 IOPS 750 - 48,000 MBps |
| Remote Storage | 10 - 64 Disks | 4,000 - 400,000 IOPS 118 - 12,000 MBps Disk Types: Standard SDD/HDD, Premium SSD, Premium SSD v2 |
| Network | 2 - 15 NICs | 16,000 - 200,000 Mbps Interfaces: NetVSC, MANA |
| Accelerators | None |
Laosv5-series
The Laosv5-series of Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) features high-throughput, low latency, directly mapped local NVMe storage. These VMs utilize AMD's fifth Generation EPYC™ 9005 processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz. The Laosv5-series VMs are available in sizes from 2 to 160 vCPUs, with 8 GiB of memory allocated per vCPU and 720 GB of local NVMe temp disk capacity allocated per vCPU, with up to 138 TB (9x15.36 TB) of local temp disk capacity available on the largest size.
These VMs are perfect for distributed, scale-out workloads that require high amounts of local storage capacity per vCPU and the ability to move that data quickly over the network or to an Azure remote storage backend. Workloads like storage caching layers, Elasticsearch, distributed file systems, big data analytics, relational and NoSQL databases, and data warehouses all benefit from the dense storage capabilities of Laosv5 VMs.
Laosv5-series VMs support Standard SSD, Standard HDD, and Premium SSD remote disk types. You can also attach Ultra Disk storage based on its regional availability. Remote Disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines. For more information, see pricing for disks.
View the full Laosv5-series page.
| Part | Quantity Count Units |
Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 2 - 160 vCPUs | AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin) [x86-64] |
| Memory | 16 - 1,040 GiB | |
| Local Storage | 1 - 9 Disks | 1,440 - 15,360 GB 215,625 - 20,700,000 IOPS 1,220 - 117,000 MBps |
| Remote Storage | 10 - 64 Disks | 4,400 - 400,000 IOPS 150 - 12,000 MBps Disk Types: Standard SDD/HDD, Premium SSD, Premium SSD v2 |
| Network | 3 - 15 NICs | 25,000 - 200,000 Mbps Interfaces: NetVSC, MANA |
| Accelerators | None |
End of Life L family series
For End of Life sizes, see End of Life sizes.
Other size information
List of all available sizes: Sizes
Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator
Information on Disk Types: Disk Types
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