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Any Known Problems with Virtualizing AX?

Last post 10-29-2008 14:39 by Harish. 3 replies.
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  • 06-27-2008 17:23

    • CJones
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    Any Known Problems with Virtualizing AX?

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    Hi

     Has anyone experience of virtualizing Ax in a production environment? Currently run a 3Tier config with one AOS and SQL 2002, there are 70 + users.  Has anyone heard of any performance/stability problems with doing this?

    Any info would be appreciated.
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  • 06-30-2008 14:54 In reply to

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    Re: Any Known Problems with Virtualizing AX?

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    Hello,

    AFAIK MS do not recommend running Ax production system in virtual environment.  In any case could you let us know version details please?

    On another note - I have extensive experience running Ax in virtual environments.  But I run only development and testing systems.  Overall the performance is not that great.

    Regards,

     

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  • 09-03-2008 17:25 In reply to

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    Re: Any Known Problems with Virtualizing AX?

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    We run AX on a VMware ESX Server.  The AOS instances are hosted on the ESX server, while the database server is a separate physical server.  The only way I would go with hosting the database server in a virtual environment is if it was connected to a SAN over fiber (ideally) or iSCSI.  

    We haven't had any perf/stability issues (knock on wood).  We have around 50 concurrent users.

    HTH

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  • 10-29-2008 14:39 In reply to

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    Re: Any Known Problems with Virtualizing AX?

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    To update -

    Recently MS released a KB article on Dynamics Ax vs virtual environment.

     From this article, MS announced that Ax will be supported in Hyper V as well as products from third party vendors who participate in the Server Virtualization Validation (SVV) program.

    For more info, refer here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615

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