Azure Virtual Machine vCore Customization is Generally Available
Azure has announced the general availability of VM vCore Customization, introducing capabilities to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT/HT) and configure constrained vCPU counts. This allows customers to optimize performance by giving workloads exclusive access to physical cores and reduce software licensing costs by aligning vCPU counts with specific requirements. The feature is available in all Azure public regions, including support for Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Uniform orchestration mode. It can be configured via Azure portal, ARM templates, Azure CLI, and PowerShell for first-party Azure OS images.
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- vCore Customization for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure VM vCore Customization is now generally available, enabling users to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT/HT) and configure constrained vCPU counts. These capabilities allow for exclusive core access for consistent performance and cost optimization by decoupling active core count from VM size, particularly beneficial for licensed software workloads like SQL Server, Oracle, and SAP.
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=569051
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