The 'M' family of VM size series are one of Azure's ultra memory-optimized VM instances designed for extremely memory-intensive workloads, such as large in-memory databases, data warehousing, and high-performance computing (HPC).
The M176ds_3_v3 is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 176 |
| Memory (GB) | 2794 |
| CPU Architecture | x64 |
| Capacity Support | True |
| VM Generations | V2 |
| VM Deployment Types | IaaS |
| Network | Value |
| Accelerated Networking | True |
| Storage | Value |
| Local Temp Storage (MB) | 409600 |
| Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS) | 160000 |
| Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 1600000000 |
| Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) | 130000 |
| Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 4000000000 |
| Premium I/O | True |
| Encryption | True |
| Memory Maintenance | True |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| M12ds_v3 | 12 | 240 |
| M24ds_v3 | 24 | 480 |
| M48ds_1_v3 | 48 | 974 |
| M96ds_1_v3 | 96 | 974 |
| M96ds_2_v3 | 96 | 1946 |
| M176ds_3_v3 | 176 | 2794 |
| M176ds_4_v3 | 176 | 3892 |
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| M208s_v2 | 208 | 2850 |
| M176s_3_v3 | 176 | 2794 |
| M192ids_v2 | 192 | 2048 |
| M128-64bds_3_v3 | 128 | 2794 |
| M128bds_3_v3 | 128 | 2794 |

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