The 'FX' family of VM size series are one of Azure's specialized compute-optimized VM instances, designed primarily workloads that require significant CPU capabilities.
The FX36mds is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 36 |
| Memory (GB) | 756 |
| CPU Architecture | x64 |
| Capacity Support | True |
| VM Generations | V2 |
| VM Deployment Types | IaaS |
| Network | Value |
| Accelerated Networking | True |
| Storage | Value |
| Local Temp Storage (MB) | 1548288 |
| Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS) | 490500 |
| Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 3085959168 |
| Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) | 60000 |
| Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 943718400 |
| Premium I/O | True |
| Encryption | True |
| Memory Maintenance | True |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| FX32-8mds_v2 | 32 | 672 |
| FX32-16ms_v2 | 32 | 672 |
| FX32-8ms_v2 | 32 | 672 |
| NV36adms_A10_v5 | 36 | 880 |
| FX32-16mds_v2 | 32 | 672 |

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