ND-H100-v5 sizes series

The ND H100 v5 series virtual machine (VM) is a new flagship addition to the Azure GPU family. This series is designed for high-end Deep Learning training and tightly coupled scale-up and scale-out Generative AI and HPC workloads.

The ND H100 v5 series starts with a single VM and eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. ND H100 v5-based deployments can scale up to thousands of GPUs with 3.2 Tbps of interconnect bandwidth per VM. Each GPU within the VM is provided with its own dedicated, topology-agnostic 400 Gb/s NVIDIA Quantum-2 CX7 InfiniBand connection. These connections are automatically configured between VMs occupying the same virtual machine scale set, and support GPU Direct RDMA.

Each GPU features NVLINK 4.0 connectivity for communication within the VM, and the instance has 96 physical fourth Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor cores.

These instances provide excellent performance for many AI, ML, and analytics tools that support GPU acceleration ‘out-of-the-box,’ such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, Caffe, RAPIDS, and other frameworks. Additionally, the scale-out InfiniBand interconnect supports a large set of existing AI and HPC tools that are built on NVIDIA’s NCCL communication libraries for seamless clustering of GPUs.

Host specifications

Part	Quantity ^{Count Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.}
Processor	96 vCPUs	Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64]
Memory	1900 GiB
Local Storage	1 Disk	1024 GiB
Remote Storage	32Disks
Network	8 NICs
Accelerators	8 GPUs	Nvidia H100 GPU (80GB)

For features supported by this series, see the Feature support section.

Sizes in series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name	vCPUs (Qty.)	Memory (GB)
Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5	96	1900

VM Basics resources

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Local (temp) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Temp Storage Disks (Qty.)	Temp Disk Size (GiB)	Max NVMe Disks (Qty.)	NVMe Disk Size (TiB)
Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5	1	1024	8	28

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Temp disk speed often differs between RR (Random Read) and RW (Random Write) operations. RR operations are typically faster than RW operations. The RW speed is usually slower than the RR speed on series where only the RR speed value is listed.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Remote (uncached) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.)	Uncached Disk IOPS	Uncached Disk Speed (MBps)
Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5	32	40800	612

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.
²Special Storage refers to either Ultra Disk or Premium SSD v2 storage.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Network interface info for each size

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)	Max Bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5	8	80000

Networking resources

Table definitions

Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Size Name	Accelerators (Qty.)	Accelerator-Memory (GB)
Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5	8	640

Feature support

Feature name	Support status
Premium Storage	Supported
Premium Storage caching	Supported
Live Migration	Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates	Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs	Supported
Generation 1 VMs	Not Supported
Accelerated Networking	Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk	Supported
Local temporary storage	Supported
Nested Virtualization	Not Supported
Infiniband	Supported

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

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Last updated on 2026-03-10

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