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What Azure subscription should I purchase for Development and testing? (On-Premises)

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Posted on by Waller Walker 345

Hi all, I was trying to figure out what Azure subscription I should buy to support the D365 On Premises application. I mean what products on azure? what is necessary? We are setting-up the development and testing environments (not for a customer but in our own Domain).

thanks in advance.

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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 307,345 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi Waller,

    If you do have client machines (or a server) being able to host the downloadable VMs, there is no Azure subscription required; only a license for Visual Studio.

    If you don't have own hardware, you can consider Azure. In that case follow the proposed VM size to have acceptable performance. Usually I change it for myself to allow for slower performance as it is cheaper in computing hours. A DEV/Test environment can be shut down every night to save credits/costs.

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    It is up to you how you do it. The VMs could be hosted on your own hardware if you want, but a decent server from an enterprise-grade manufacturer costs somewhere between 25 to 45.000 GBP depending on the CPU/RAM/Disk setup each, capable of hosting 10-20 VMs.

    You could do a costing depending on the selected hardware during the deployment of an Azure-based workstation on the LCS site depending on using a shared or dedicated development environment.

    Also for on-prem factor in the other IT- and maintenance-related costs.

    That would be a good comparison starting point to see if financially you are better off running it in the cloud or in-house.

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