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VM-Series Models on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Azure VM Families, VM Types, and VM Sizes

Microsoft Azure has a variety of Virtual Machines (VMs), which it categorizes into VM families—General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Accelerate Compute, and Storage Optimized—to fit different use cases and application profiles. Each VM family consists of multiple VM Types such as Dv2, Dv3, DSv2, DSv3 that offer different compute, memory, and storage capabilities. To address your workload requirements, each VM type is also available in different instance sizes such as D3_v2, D4_v2, and D5_v2.

Refer to the following table to learn about the different options that are available for the VM-Series firewall license types and Azure VM families, types, and sizes.

In addition to the following instances, all s (premium storage), d (large local storage), and a (AMD based variants) are also supported. For example, if D3_v2 is supported, so are DS3_v2 and DSa3_v2.

Family	VM Type	VM Size	vCPU	Memory (GiB)	Network Bandwidth (Gbps)	Maximum Network Interfaces	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall Bundle 1*	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall Bundle 2*	VM-Series Next-Generation Firewall (BYOL and ELA)**
General Purpose	Dv2	D3_v2	4	14	3	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-100, VM-300, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv2	D4_v2	8	28	6	8	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv2	D5_v2	16	56	12	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv2	DS3_v2	4	14	3	4	VM-300	VM-300	VM-100, VM-300, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv2	DS4_v2	8	28	6	8	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv2	DS5_v2	16	56	12	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv2	DS13_v2	8	56	6	8	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv3	D4_v3	4	16	2	2	VM-300	VM-300	VM-100, VM-300, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv3	D8_v3	8	32	4	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv3	D16_v3	16	64	8	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv3	D8s_v3	8	32	4	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv3	D16s_v3	16	64	8	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv4	D4_v4	4	16	10	2	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv4	D4s_v4	4	16	10	2	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv4	D4ds_v4	4	16	10	2	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv4	D8_v4	8	32	12.5	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Dv4	D16_v4	16	64	12.5	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv4	D8s_v4	8	32	12.5	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	DSv4	D16s_v4	16	64	12.5	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
Optimized for memory-intensive applications	Eav4	E4a_v4	4	32	1.6	2	VM-300	VM-300	VM-100, VM-300, Software NGFW Credits
	Eav4	E8a_v4	8	64	3.2	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
	Eav4	E16a_v4	16	128	6.4	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	Easv4	E8as_v4	8	64	8	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	Easv4	E16as_v4	16	128	10	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
	Easv4	E32as_v4	32	256	16	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits
Compute Optimized	Fsv2	F8s_v2	8	16	12.5	4	VM-500	VM-500	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, Software NGFW Credits
Compute Optimized	Fsv2	F32s_v2	32	64	16	8	VM-700	VM-700	VM-100, VM-300, VM-500, VM-700, Software NGFW Credits

*When you launch the VM-Series firewall corresponding to this plan, it automatically learns the underlying Azure VM's compute resources and unlocks itself to the right VM-Series model (VM-300, VM-500, or VM-700).

**You can launch the VM-Series firewall model corresponding to this plan on an Azure VM size that provides more resources than the minimum requirements. However, the firewall will not be able to take advantage of additional memory or CPU cores. If you launch the firewall model on an Azure VM size that does not meet the minimum requirements, the firewall will boot in maintenance mode.

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