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"Microsoft is committed to providing you with technical information on how to better integrate Microsoft and SAP solutions, reduce complexity, and have a continued focus on TCO. The SAP certified Sales and Distribution three-tier standard application benchmark, using SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server 2003 running on HP and Intel hardware, delivered record-breaking results with 93,000 concurrent users."
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Results Summary

The benchmark was conducted around three core scenarios:

Scenario 1: Mixed Workload

• Description: Scenario to showcase ability to run mixed workloads, including sales order processing, purchase order processing, and ledger posting, without hitting scalability or response time outage issues.
• Goal:Provide a good sizing data point for customers/partners for the AOS and database servers, with representative functionality.

Scenario 2: Complex Sales Order Processing

• Description:Scenario provides an additional data point by processing complex sales orders alone. This scenario excludes purchase orders and general ledger postings, which are far lighter.
• Goal:Provide a good sizing data point for customers around AOS and database servers, with representative functionality.

Scenario3:Simple Sales Orders,Industry Compare

• Description:This scenario has the following functional elements disabled to reduce the functional footprint by approximately half: credit limit checking, markup transactions, automatic reservations, commission calculation, and trade agreements.
• Goal:
  • Industry benchmarks often test limited functionality. This scenario is a comparison point with industry benchmarks around Order to Cash / Sales & Distribution Scenarios.
  • Provide a data point on core technology platform scalability for simple well optimized transactions.

High Level Results Summary

Benchmark Transaction Profile – Scenario 1: Mixed Workload

The workload consists of the transactions described in the following table. The ratio represents the user breakdown in addition to the overall transaction rate breakdown.

Scenario Mix

Benchmark Transaction Profile – Scenario 2: Complex Sales Orders

This workload is sales orders only. It resembles Scenario 1, but without the purchase orders or the General Ledger postings. Sales orders are larger and more processing-intensive transactions and are benchmarked separately to provide an additional data point.

Scenario Mix

Benchmark Transaction Profile – Scenario 3: Simple Sales Orders for Industry Compare

This workload is sales orders only. It differs from Scenario 2 in the following ways:

• Functionality is significantly reduced to enable comparing Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 with other industry benchmarks that test limited functionality.
• This scenario is not suitable for sizing core sales order functionality for production runs, unless the functional settings are similar.
• The following functionality from Scenario 1 and 2 was disabled:
  • Trade Agreements
  • Credit Limit Checking
  • Markup Transactions
  • Automatic Reservations
  • Commission Calculation
  • Shipping Information for Order

Scenario Mix

Benchmark Methodology

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System was used as the load driver, simulating concurrent users through Microsoft Dynamics AX .NET Business Connector. A business transaction was simulated at an average rate of once every six minutes for each concurrent user. Measurements were recorded on all servers and were measured when the concurrency reached steady state. Steady state was maintained for a minimum of 60 minutes with repeat runs within acceptable deviation of throughput and response times.

Notes:

• All runs had a minimum steady state of 1 hour.
• Ramp up durations were between 20 and 45 minutes depending on the scenario.
• Scenarios were considered successful when deviations between runs were within 3% in terms of response time and system utilization.
• A benchmark user logs on through a business connector. Every effort has been made to simulate standard client behavior. Some differences exist between standard client and business connector users.

Hardware Layout and Configuration

All scenarios were run using the same hardware configuration of 8 homogeneous AOS servers communicating with a single instance Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 database:

AOS Server Specification

Model HP DL385
Processor 2 x 2.6 gigahertz (GHz) AMD64
Memory 4 GB ECC
HardDisk (BootDrive) 2 x 72 gigabyte (GB) 15K RPM
Raid1
HardDisk (PageFile) 1 x 36 GB 15K RPM
Network HP NC7782 Gigabit Ethernet

AOS Software Settings

3 GB Switch
32-bit version of Microsoft Windows Server® 2003
with Service Pack SP1 (SP1), Enterprise Edition
Single AOS instance per server

Visual Studio Team System Client Specification

Model HP DL145
Processor 2 x 1.8 GHz AMD64
Memory 2 GB ECC
HardDisk Maxtor 40 GB IDE
Network Broadcom NetXtream Gigabit Ethernet

Visual Studio Team System Software Settings

32-bit version of Windows Server 2003 with SP1,
Standard Edition

Database Server Specification

Model HP DL585 Processor 4 x 2.6 GHz AMD64
Memory 16 GB ECC
HardDisk (BootDrive) 2 x 72 GB 15K RPM Raid1
HardDisk (PageFile) 1 x 36 GB 15K RPM
Network Broadcom NetXtream Gigabit Ethernet

Database Software Settings

3 GB Switch
64-bit version of Windows Server°2003 with SP1,
Enterprise Edition
32-bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with
Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Database Disk Configuration

EMC CX600 /w 4 GB 50/50
Raid Group 0 14 x 73 GB 10K RPM Raid 0 (Database)
Raid Group 1 04 x 73 GB 10K RPM Raid 0 (Log)
Raid Group 2 14 x 73 GB 10K RPM Raid 0 (Database)
Raid Group 3 10 x 73 GB 10K RPM Raid 0 (TempDB)

Benchmark Data Composition

The benchmark was run on a 177 GB base database. The system was configured as follows:

• 50,000 customers across 100 customer groups
• 100,000 items across 100 item groups
• 20,000 vendors across 100 vendor groups
• Pricing enabled for all items ( Quantity >10 gets 5% line discount or total sale > $ 150 gets 2% discount )
• Chart of Accounts set up to generate 12 to 22 entries per 5 line sales order
• 6 Sales Tax Codes set up for orders
• 10 different Miscellaneous Charges per company
• Commission calculation set up
• Shipment enabled for core scenarios
• History:
  • 2.5 million invoiced sales orders, 12.5 million lines
  • 100,000 purchase orders, 500,000 purchase order lines invoiced

Disclaimer

These benchmark results were returned in a controlled lab environment, without other applications running during execution. The benchmark was executed on optimized hardware, using the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 SYS layer without reporting activity during execution. This benchmark is accurate only for the listed hardware, non-customized version of Microsoft Dynamics AX, transaction mix, data composition, and indexes. Microsoft Dynamics is publishing a Benchmark Toolkit for Microsoft Dynamics AX before the end of 2006 on PartnerSource and CustomerSource. Any customer or partner running benchmarks on their own system should expect varying results based on their hardware, customizations, transaction mix, data composition, and indexes. Transaction mix and data composition will have an effect on sizing and hardware requirements.

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