Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines D96a V4 Series
Microsoft Azure D96a V4 Virtual Machines provide powerful, scalable compute resources designed for demanding workloads, offering enhanced performance for your business applications.
- Scalable Compute: Access high-performance virtual machines that can be scaled up or down to meet fluctuating business demands.
- Flexible Capacity: Utilize a D96a V4 series VM for a variety of workloads, from development and testing to production applications.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrate these virtual machines into your existing Microsoft Azure environment for unified management.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize your IT spending by paying only for the compute resources you consume on a subscription basis.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides access to Microsoft Azure's D96a V4 series virtual machines, a powerful compute solution designed for demanding enterprise workloads. These VMs offer a balance of compute, memory, and storage, making them suitable for a wide range of applications requiring significant processing power and fast data access.
Businesses utilizing Microsoft Azure for their IT infrastructure can deploy these virtual machines to support critical applications, development environments, or data-intensive tasks. They are ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals seeking to enhance performance and reliability within their cloud footprint without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
- High Performance Compute: Equipped with Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors, offering up to 3.4 GHz.
- Large Memory Footprint: Features 480 GiB of RAM, suitable for memory-intensive applications.
- Fast Local Storage: Includes 1900 GiB of NVMe SSD local storage for rapid data access.
- Versatile Workloads: Supports a broad spectrum of applications including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and databases.
- Azure Subscription Model: Operates on a pay-as-you-go subscription basis, allowing for flexible cost management.
Azure D96a V4 Virtual Machines are an excellent choice for SMB and mid-market organizations needing robust, scalable compute power within the Microsoft cloud ecosystem.
What This Enables
Deploying High-Performance Applications
Enable teams to run memory-intensive enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle, or SQL Server with dedicated high-performance compute and large memory capacity. Streamline operations by hosting these critical systems in a scalable cloud environment that ensures availability.
cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud environments, virtualized application hosting, business-critical system hosting
Accelerating Development and Testing
Streamline development workflows by providing developers with powerful virtual machines for building, testing, and deploying applications. Automate the provisioning and de-provisioning of environments to accelerate release cycles and improve developer productivity.
agile development pipelines, CI/CD integration, software development lifecycles, application testing environments
Hosting Data Analytics Workloads
Empower data science teams to process and analyze large datasets with fast NVMe SSD storage and ample memory. Automate complex data transformations and reporting tasks by leveraging the scalable compute power of Azure VMs.
big data processing, business intelligence platforms, data warehousing, machine learning model training
Key Features
Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL Processors
Experience superior processing speeds and performance for your most demanding applications and workloads.
480 GiB RAM
Handle large datasets and memory-intensive applications with ease, improving application responsiveness and throughput.
1900 GiB NVMe SSD Local Storage
Achieve rapid data access and I/O operations, significantly reducing latency for applications and databases.
Azure US South Central Region Deployment
Benefit from low latency and high availability for users and applications located in or serving the central United States.
Subscription Billing
Manage IT costs effectively with a flexible pay-as-you-go model that aligns expenses with actual resource consumption.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-performance computing for trading platforms, risk analysis, and large-scale data processing, often with strict uptime and security requirements met by Azure VMs.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers use powerful VMs for running ERP systems, supply chain management software, and complex simulations, benefiting from the scalability and reliability of Azure for operational efficiency.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations leverage Azure VMs for hosting Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems, medical imaging analysis, and research data processing, adhering to stringent compliance and availability standards.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies utilize these VMs for hosting case management software, document management systems, and client data, requiring secure and performant cloud solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the D96a V4 series in Azure?
The D96a V4 series are general-purpose virtual machines in Azure optimized for performance. They feature Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors, large amounts of RAM, and fast NVMe SSD local storage, making them suitable for a wide range of enterprise workloads.
What kind of workloads are best suited for these VMs?
These VMs are ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications like SAP, Oracle, SQL Server, and other business-critical systems. They also perform well for development and testing environments, data analytics, and web servers requiring high performance.
How does the subscription billing work?
Subscription billing means you pay for the virtual machine resources you consume on an ongoing basis, typically billed monthly. This model offers flexibility and cost-efficiency compared to upfront hardware purchases.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.