Vyatta NOS will run on most of the offered Azure machines that Microsoft offers. The one hard requirement is that the chosen Azure machine must have support for SSE3.

The F series has been tested, and we note that the Fv2 VMs are currently being recommended by Microsoft as they are both the cheapest and fastest option. We believe that the 8 vCPU option will give the fastest performance for a two interface device. For the target environment, CPU clock speed will have a direct effect on packet throughput and that should be a strong consideration when considering the machine types.

For details of the F and Fv2 series, see the Microsoft documentation.