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Minimum Software Requirements

Microsoft Azure supports a wide variety of sizes and options for deployed Azure virtual machines (VMs). For vMX, choose Standard_F8 size.

Table 1 outlines the recommended system requirements for a vMX instance, Standard_F8 size VM.

Table 1: System Requirements for vMX - Standard_F8 VM

Component

Specification

Size

Standard_F8

CPU cores

8

Memory

16 GB

Maximum number of data disks

32

Maximum temporary storage throughput: IOPS / Read MBps / Write MBps

24,000 / 375 / 187

Maximum data disks / throughput: IOPS

32 / 32x500

Maximum number of NICs / network bandwidth (Mbps)

8 / 6,000