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Minimum infrastructure requirements for Dynamics 365 on-premises

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Posted on by hoang.nguyen83 275

Hi guys,

According to Microsoft the number of server is quite high. I do not get the idea of it like: 3 AD servers, 2 pre-production environment servers, 3 production servers, 3 orchestrator servers for each environment.

Is it really mandatory? i mean it said "minimum"

There are also 1 DEV environment and 1 BUILD environment on LCS. Seems like it is not so on-premises, only for business data

Can someone tell me what orchestrator? some where in that article it said 3 is mandatory

I am planning to have 2 physical servers with Windows Server Data center 2016 so i can have as much as it requires for number of VMs and mix those VMs on physical servers so if 1 physical server is down, another one can still handle (like 2 production VMs could be on Physical server 1 (2 VMs) and on physical server 2 (1 VMs) ). Is it OK to do so?

How about PowerBI? is it supported Dynamics 365 on-premises edition in the way with on cloud edition? is there any downside?

FCI and AG are supported for SQL Server? Should i go with FCI as i have SAN devices and license can be Standard, no need SQL enterprise edittion

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  • hoang.nguyen83 Profile Picture
    hoang.nguyen83 275 on at

    Hi guys,

    I really appreciate if i can have your opinions on this. That is big help for me

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    Community Member on at

    Hi,

    if you want the minimum of the minimum you couls install all on one server (CRM app server + sql database), but that's really not recommended. The basic for each environment is one sql server and 1 crm application server.

    technet.microsoft.com/.../hh699831.aspx

  • hoang.nguyen83 Profile Picture
    hoang.nguyen83 275 on at

    Thank you for your comments but i actually am talking about Dynamics 365 Operation on-premises

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Community 2020 Profile Picture
    Microsoft Dynamics ... 5 on at

    Hi Mark,

    Can you share with us your experience about the minimumm Hardware for F&O.

    thx

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    Rahul Mohta Profile Picture
    Rahul Mohta 21,046 on at

    Hope you have reviwed

    docs.microsoft.com/.../system-requirements-on-prem

    in my summary

    Min. 9 VM 4to8 cores each

    Cost Cloud LBD Local business data

    1..2m 4.2m

    To sell cloud, calculate 10 yr cost & then compare onprem

    For unreliable internet, get express route

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    cfernandez Profile Picture
    cfernandez 40 on at

    We have a sandbox environment with the below spec (runs on 2 physical servers in a fail-safe mode with VM migration)

    The performance is just barely bearable!.

    Role Node Count Total
    Cores    		 Total
    Memory
    AOS, Data management, Batch 2 4 12
    Management Reporter 1 2 8
    SQL Server Reporting Services 1 2 8
    Orchestrator 3 3 8
    SQL Server
    (or use the production SQL Servers)    		 1 4 16

    Do NOT use it for production though!; your users would be after your scalp.

    - and yes, 3 ORCs are mandatory even on a sandbox.see this post for a setup on the cheap -> D365 on the cheap

    regards

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    nmaenpaa Profile Picture
    nmaenpaa 101,172 Moderator on at

    In addition to at least one Sandbox and one Prod system, you still need development systems and a build system, just like with the cloud version. Each concurrent developer needs their own VM, and on top of that you need one build VM.

    For dev/build you use exactly the same systems as in cloud version = onebox environments which you can host locally or in Azure.

    You might also need more than one test system but that you need to discuss with your customer. Additional test systems can be sandboxes hosted on Service Fabric, or oneboxes, depending of your scenario.

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