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Microsoft Previews New Mbv4 Virtual Machines for SAP Workloads on Azure

Microsoft has announced the public preview of its new Mbv4 virtual machines for Azure, expanding infrastructure options for organizations running SAP workloads in the cloud. We are excited to introduce the next-generation Mbv4 series, Mbsv4 and Mbdsv4, now available in public preview. This new release delivers both storage-optimized and memory-optimized configurations, combined with enhanced security features and powered by the latest Azure Boost technologies for improved performance efficiency, enabling customers to run data-intensive and mission-critical workloads with greater confidence, scalability and cost-effectiveness.

The Mbv4 series is optimized for memory-intensive enterprise applications, including SAP environments that require high performance, scalability and reliability. The new virtual machines are intended to support production deployments as well as large databases and mission-critical business applications.

The memory-optimized and storage-optimized Mbv4 VM (Mbsv4 and Mbdsv4) series are based on the 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, scale for workloads up to 4TB and deliver higher remote disk storage performance, new VM sizes offer up to 780,000 IOPS, new VM sizes also offer up to 16GBps of remote disk storage bandwidth, increased remote storage performance of these VMs is ideal for storage, improved local storage performance with up to 3,200,000 IOPS and 16GBps throughput to local NVMe temp disk, designed from the ground up for increased resilience against failures with memory, disks and networking.

Microsoft said the Mbv4 instances build on Azure's portfolio of SAP-certified infrastructure, giving customers additional choices for migrating, modernizing and operating SAP systems in the cloud. The company expects the new VM family to help organizations improve workload efficiency while supporting evolving performance requirements. The public preview on Mbv4 is free and the preview is available in East US 2 and East US.

Posted by Redmondmag.com Editors on 07/02/2026

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