Azure Virtual Machine NC v2-series are retiring on 31 August 2023

[azure-deprecation-automation]

Azure Virtual Machine NC v2-series are retiring on 31 August 2023. (originally 31 August 2022)

Deadline: Aug 31, 2023 Impacted Services:

• Azure Virtual Machine

More information:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/nc-v2series-azure-virtual-machines-will-be-retired-by-31-august-2022/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/nc-v2-series-azure-virtual-machines-retirement-extended-to-31-august-2023/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/n-series-migration#nc-v2-series-vms-featuring-nvidia-tesla-p100-gpus

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Azure NC v2-series virtual machines, powered by NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs, have been replaced by newer GPUs which offer increased performance and software functionality, such as the NVIDIA Tesla V100-based NC v3-series. The NC v3-series offers roughly twice the baseline per-GPU performance as the NC v2, and introduces TensorCores, which can accelerate specific types of CUDA operations by a factor of twelve over the P100-based NC v2. NC v2-series virtual machine sizes will be retired on 31 August 2022.

After 31 August 2022, any remaining NC v2 virtual machines on your subscription will be set to a deallocated state, cease to be available, and will no longer incur billing charges.

Note: This VM size retirement only impacts the VM sizes in the original NC, ND, and NC v2-series powered by Keppler and Pascal GPUs. (K80, P40, and P100) This retirement announcement does not apply to the newer NC v3, NC T4 v3, and ND v2-Series virtual machines.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Aug 20, 2021	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Aug 31, 2022	Original deprecation date, but deprecation was extended.
Extended Deprecation	Aug 31, 2023	VMs will be set to a deallocated state, will stop working, and will no longer incur billing charge.

Impact

VMs will be set to a deallocated state, will stop working, and will no longer incur billing charge.

Required Action

Use the official migration guide.

You will need to resize or deallocate your H-series virtual machines. We recommend migrating workloads from original H-series (inclusive of H-series promo) virtual machines to our newer offerings.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

We are retiring NC v2-series VMs on 31 August 2022. All NC v2 VMs will need to be de-allocated by that date. For recommendations on which VMs to migrate your NC v2 workloads to, or for help with the creation of new VMs, please see the migration guide. Visit the Azure Virtual Machine pricing page for additional information.

⚠️ Deprecation is being extended to 31 August 2023, read more in the announcement here.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact the product group through email (email).
• Contact Azure support (link).

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[tomkerkhove]

Deprecation is being extended to 31 August 2023, read more in the announcement here.