Industry best practices and recommendations
The following are a few industry best practices and recommendations for Dynamics AX infrastructure planning.
Planning
- Once you have the infrastructure design in place, you need to ensure that you have a plan to deliver the environments as per other milestones.
- There could be a long lead time in getting the budget approvals, the procurement process including lead time from Vendor, OS installation, and so on.
- Add tasks for infrastructure deliverables to the overall plan and have the lead time defined for the infrastructure team to deliver those tasks for your project.
The SQL server
Most of the performance issues arise from bottlenecks on SQL:
- Utilize the latest supported SQL Server version for Dynamics AX databases to utilize the latest SQL Server features.
- The Dynamics AX database has intense storage requirements and it should not be mistaken for any other OLTP database. Utilize the Microsoft recommendations on storage planning and configuration. The...
