Recommended Azure VM Types

Vertica supports a range of Microsoft Azure virtual machine (VM) types, each optimized for different purposes. Choose the VM type that best matches your performance and price needs as a user.

The GS VMs are not available in all regions, or from the Azure Marketplace.

You can use them by following the manual deployment steps described in Manually Deploy Vertica on Microsoft Azure.

For the best performance in most common scenarios, use one of the following VMs:

Virtual Machine Types Virtual Machine Size
Memory optimized

DS13_v2

DS14_v2

DS15_v2

D8s_v3

D16s_v3

D32s_v3
High memory and I/O throughput

GS3

GS4

GS5

E8s_v3

E16s_v3

E32s_v3

L8s

L16s

L32s