Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Virtual machine hardware

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Posted on by Oleg Abapolov

Hi,

I consider buying new hardware to run virtual machine with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (10.0.9)

Could you please share your experience?

What processor and how much RAM is required for smooth operation for developer.

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Sukrut Parab 71,710 Moderator on at

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In my experience VM with 32 GB of memory perform better for development activities. If you have cost constraint you can try mix of 16GB and 32 GB and see the difference in the performance.

Also check below blog where comparison of Azure D12 v2 vs own dev machine is shown.

waywo.co.uk/.../

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André Arnaud de Cal... 300,911 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Oleg,

I'm running local virtual machines on a Dell XPS 15 with an i7 Intel processor and 16 GB of memory where about 10 GB is allocated to the VM. The virtual hard disk is on an external SSD drive connected via usb 3.1 port. This is running OK for some testing and evaluations. For development, I would suggest to use more memory like also mentioned by Sukrut.

One of the most important factors is the disk speed. There is a lot of I/O during development and namely the build process. Sometimes I do some smaller developments for "fun" on this machine.

I'm also using a cloud hosted environment which is the D12 v2 as also mentioned by Sukrut in his reply. This is affordable and the performance is quite OK, but all after building the initial caches.

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nmaenpaa 101,160 Moderator on at

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16 GB RAM is a practical minimum but 32 GB is better. And you should have at least 4 CPU cores. The most important thing is disk speed, you should use SSD disk. The source code and metadata is scattered in tens of thousands of XML files and the developer experience is not very smooth if disk operations are slow.

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Oleg Abapolov 39 on at

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Sukrut,

thank you very much for the reply.

Somehow I missed this blog post while searching, but it has very useful information.

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Oleg Abapolov 39 on at

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André,

thank you very much for the reply and information.

I tried to run virtual machine on quite old MacBook: i7 processor (4 cores, 8 threads), 12 of 16 GB allocated to the VM, internal SSD. However it is quite slow. AX 2012 R3 virtual machine run pretty well on the same notebook.

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Oleg Abapolov 39 on at

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Nikolaos,

thank you very much for the information.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 300,911 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Oleg,

With my Hyper-V, I do allocate 4 out of the 8 threads. The external SSD option could speed things up as sharing the same SSD for the Windows guest and the VM will slow down due to disk I/O. You can also check the memory allocation for SQL server. It might consume unlimited memory which could also slow down the performance.

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