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Update Summary
General Availability of VM vCore Customization for Azure Virtual Machines adds Disable SMT/HT and Configurable Constrained Cores. It is available in all Azure public regions and supports VMSS Uniform orchestration mode.
Update Details
New Features
- Disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading/Hyper-Threading (SMT/HT) on supported VMs for exclusive access to physical cores.
- Select supported vCPU counts independently of VM size to better match licensing or workload needs.
- Support for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Uniform orchestration mode.
Hints
- Can be configured through the Azure portal, ARM templates, Azure CLI, and PowerShell.
- Support is currently available for first-party Azure operating system images only.
- Marketplace images that include third-party licensing are not supported.
- Available in all Azure public regions.
Product Information
Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Azure
Product type: Other
Platform: Web
Vendor release date: Aug 1, 2026
Original release notes: View on vendor site
Published on updatealert.io: Aug 23, 2026