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Posted on by Maverick 180

Hi all,

I have some queries.

I want to set up a VM for the development of D365 for a client. My account has been added to VSTS.

I have asked the client to set up VM in their local server, but they denied it as their local servers are outsourced. Instead they asked me if I want to host VM in azure, which is not cost efficient. Is it possible to host VM in azure?

Can you let me know the system configuration required if I need to install VM in my laptop. I read 16GB RAM is recommended. What about the number of cores, processors and OS?

Also, to download VM from LCS, do I need some license? And if I set up VM on my machine, if I log into Visual Studio with my account that is added to VSTS, all the development that is done by other developers in the environment will be visible to me?

Thanks

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    Sukrut Parab Profile Picture
    Sukrut Parab 71,680 Moderator on at
    RE: VM for D365

    SSD is going to help definitely . Here is details to download PU11 . As mentioned log in with Live id to download

    connect.microsoft.com/.../DownloadDetails.aspx

  • Fedir Kryvyi Profile Picture
    Fedir Kryvyi 1,026 on at
    RE: VM for D365

    Hm, try to navigate to https://connect.microsoft.com/ and log-in with your MS Live Id account. After that, try this link connect.microsoft.com/.../Downloads this should help. If second link wouldn't work, you fan manually search from "Directory" menu of the web site.

    If it was helpful, please don't to mark your question as resolved. Thx!

  • Maverick Profile Picture
    Maverick 180 on at
    RE: VM for D365

    8357.connect.jpg

    Thanks Fedir.

    But I am unable to download from the given url. I am getting the error mentioned above. Any work around?

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    Fedir Kryvyi Profile Picture
    Fedir Kryvyi 1,026 on at
    RE: VM for D365

    Answering your questions one by one one :)

    1. Yes, you can host your VM in Azure and deploy it out of LCS

    2. You can host VM with D365 DEV box on your local PC. I was using 16GB of Ram, Core i5 processor and 256SSD(this is crucial), and was able to work quite smoothly.

    3. You can download VM from connect.microsoft.com (here is a link to the latest version: http://bit.ly/2idj1Cr). It would come with 30day trial for VS, so you would require VS license to use it(The one that comes with MSDN subscription will work just fine)

    Hope that helped

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    Fedir Kryvyi Profile Picture
    Fedir Kryvyi 1,026 on at
    RE: VM for D365

    I was using Core i5 processor + 16GB of RAM, and it was just fine. I would say that HDD is the biggest bottleneck, so I ran VM on 256Gb SSD

  • Sukrut Parab Profile Picture
    Sukrut Parab 71,680 Moderator on at
    RE: VM for D365

    you can host it but development time is going to be slow. Normal build operation is going to take lot of time

  • Maverick Profile Picture
    Maverick 180 on at
    RE: VM for D365

    Thanks for your advice.

    But, my PC is having intel i7-4600u processor. Having 2 cores and 4 logical processors and is currently having 16 GB RAM. If I upgrade RAM to 24 GB, do the development activities run smoothly? I have read some where that 2 cores is enough. I am pretty confused because different blogs tells differently. Have anyone hosted VM in a system with 2 cores?

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    Sukrut Parab Profile Picture
    Sukrut Parab 71,680 Moderator on at
    RE: VM for D365

    You can deploy VM from LCS. Machine with 32GB RAM and 8 cores works great for normal Development activities. As long as you are able to connect to VSTS URL and project all others developing in  ,you should be able to get development done by others.

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