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Box 1: Ev3 series M Azure virtual machines
The Ev3 series pricing is starting from $58.40 /per month.
The E-series Azure VMs are optimized for heavy in-memory applications such as SAP HANA. These VMs are configured with high memory-to-core ratios, which makes them well-suited for memory-intensive enterprise applications, large relational database servers, in-memory analytics workloads etc.
The Ev3-series VMs range from 2 to 64 vCPUs and 16-432 GiB of RAM, respectively.
Example workloads include SAP HANA (e.g., E64s v3, E20ds v4, E32ds v4, E48ds v4, E64ds v4), SAP S/4 HANA application layer, SAP NetWeaver application layer, and more broadly memory-intensive enterprise applications, large relational database servers, data warehousing workloads, business intelligence applications, in-memory analytics workloads, and additional business-critical applications, including systems that process financial transactions of various nature...
Note: The M-series family of Azure virtual machines are memory optimized and are ideal for heavy in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA. The M-Series offer up to 4 TB of RAM on a single VM. In addition, these VMs offer a virtual CPU count of up to 128 vCPUs on a single VM to enable high performance parallel processing.
Example workloads include SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, SQL Hekaton and other large in-memory business critical workloads requiring massive parallel compute power.
Box 2: Hana on Azure (Large Instances)
The storage used in HANA Large Instances has a file size limitation. The size limitation is 16 TB per file.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-storage-architecture
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/series/