D-series VMs are designed to run applications that demand higher compute power and temporary disk performance. To achieve this, a D-series VM provides better processor performance with higher limits than the A-series, a higher memory-to-core ratio, and a SSD for the temporary disk.
They are built for operating systems such as Windows Server 2012 R2 or later. These VMs can easily handle workloads from file servers, databases, applications, and web servers.
Microsoft has already updated the D and DS-series to version 2, which are represented by Dv2 or DSv2. They feature more CPUs. The Dv2-series CPU is about 35% faster than the D-series CPU. It is based on the 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 V3 (Haswell) processor, and with the Intel® Turbo Boost Technology (TBT) 2.0, can go up to 3.1 GHz. The Dv2-series has the same memory and disk configurations as the D-series.