Good News, for all IT's, Microsoft announce Accelerated Networking, both on Windows and Linux OS.

This feature can provide up to 30Gbps in networking throughput.

Table of Contents

Support VM Instances

  • SQLGL, SQLGLCore
  • Standard_D12_v2, Standard_D12_v2_ABC, Standard_D12_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D13_v2, Standard_D13_v2_ABC, Standard_D13_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D14_v2, Standard_D14_v2_ABC, Standard_D14_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D15_v2, Standard_D15_v2_ABC, Standard_D15_v2_Nested, Standard_D15_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D16_v3, Standard_D16s_v3
  • Standard_D3_v2, Standard_D3_v2_ABC, Standard_D3_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D32_v3, Standard_D32-16s_v3, Standard_D32-8s_v3, Standard_D32s_v3
  • Standard_D4_v2, Standard_D4_v2_ABC, Standard_D4_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D40_v3, Standard_D40s_v3
  • Standard_D5_v2, Standard_D5_v2_ABC, Standard_D5_v2_Promo
  • Standard_D64_v3, Standard_D64-16s_v3, Standard_D64-32s_v3, Standard_D64s_v3
  • Standard_D8_v3, Standard_D8s_v3
  • Standard_DS12_v2, Standard_DS12_v2_Promo
  • Standard_DS13_v2, Standard_DS13_v2_Promo, Standard_DS13-4_v2, Standard_DS13-4_v2_Promo
  • Standard_DS14_v2, Standard_DS14_v2_Promo, Standard_DS14-4_v2, Standard_DS14-4_v2_Promo, Standard_DS14-8_v2, Standard_DS14-8_v2_Promo
  • Standard_DS15_v2, Standard_DS15_v2_Nested, Standard_DS15_v2_Promo
  • Standard_DS3_v2, Standard_DS3_v2_Promo
  • Standard_DS4_v2, Standard_DS4_v2_Promo
  • Standard_DS5_v2, Standard_DS5_v2_Promo
  • Standard_E16_v3, Standard_E16s_v3
  • Standard_E32_v3, Standard_E32-16s_v3, Standard_E32-8s_v3, Standard_E32s_v3
  • Standard_E64_v3, Standard_E64-16s_v3, Standard_E64-32s_v3, Standard_E64s_v3
  • Standard_E8_v3, Standard_E8s_v3
  • Standard_F16, Standard_F16_ABC, Standard_F16s, Standard_F16s_v2
  • Standard_F32s_v2
  • Standard_F4, Standard_F4_ABC, Standard_F4s
  • Standard_F64s_v2,
  • Standard_F72s_v2
  • Standard_F8, Standard_F8_ABC, Standard_F8s, Standard_F8s_v2
  • Standard_L16s_v2,
  • Standard_L32s_v2
  •  Standard_L64s_v2
  • Standard_L8s_v2
  • Standard_L96s_v2
  • Standard_M128-32ms, Standard_M128-64ms, Standard_M128ms, Standard_M128s
  • Standard_M64-16ms, Standard_M64-32ms, Standard_M64ms, Standard_M64s
  • Standard_NC12s_v2, Standard_NC12s_v3
  • Standard_NC24rs_v2, Standard_NC24rs_v3, Standard_NC24s_v2, Standard_NC24s_v3
  • Standard_NC6s_v2, Standard_NC6s_v3
  • Standard_ND12s
  • Standard_ND24rs, Standard_ND24s
  • Standard_ND6s


Accelerated Networking Diagram

Benefits

The benefits of accelerated networking are:
  • Utilization of CPU will be decreased because the virtual switch is bypassed.
  • Lower latency, by removing the virtual switch from the datapath removes the time packets spend in the host for policy processing.
  • Reduced jitter, offloading the policy enforcement to the hardware removes that variability by delivering packets directly to the VM.

Limitations

There are three limitations for this capability :
  • It cannot be enabled for an existing NIC, we need to create a new one
  • We cannot attach the NIC on an existing VM, we need to deploy a new one.
  • This capability is only available for ARM deployments