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How can you Host CRM for 1,000 organizations? VMs?

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Posted on by Allan20112 1,025

Hi,

Has anyone tried to host Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for hundreds or thousands of organizations on the same server at the same root server URL (e.g. https://*.HOSTINGFIRM.com)? If so, how have you gone about this on the server side? Do you have one Virtual Machine per organization to divide up the organizations for troubleshooting and/or tracing purposes?

 

The problem with hosting it all on the same server is that it makes server-side CRM tracing extremely verbose because the trace picks up the 999 other organizations on the same server.  For example, if you did server tracing for a few seconds for 100 hosted organizations it would create dozens of log files at 10.5MB each, with activities from every organization. This makes for extremely time consuming troubleshooting if you're digging through hundreds of huge server-side log files. It makes server-side tracing beyond a few seconds virtually useless since it would mean data overload.

 

Does anyone have any ideas of how you might host CRM 2011 for multiple organizations in a cost effective way, so that as the hosting organization you can do server-side tracing for just one specific organization?

Thanks!

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    Gus Gonzalez Profile Picture
    Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

    Cost Effective = VMs.

    I would probably host multiple CRM servers (with multiple organizations each) on Virtual Machines.

  • Allan20112 Profile Picture
    Allan20112 1,025 on at

    Thank you Gus!

    A few questions about this:

    1) Would you have a VM service provider you'd recommend?

    2) So the structure you'd recommend is multiple CRM servers on virtual machines, for example, where you divide it up by using 10 CRM servers on a total of 10 virtual machines with 10 organizations on each?  

    3) Do you think 1 VM per organization is cost effective or reasonably feasible from a CRM administrator perspective if you host for example 50 organizations?

    Thanks,

    Allan

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    Gus Gonzalez Profile Picture
    Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

    Yes on number 2.

    I think that would be the best.

  • Allan20112 Profile Picture
    Allan20112 1,025 on at

    Thanks Gus!

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    Allan20112 1,025 on at

    An alternative solution would be to find or create a log file parser program that could find the most relevant text and return it to a smaller, single text file.

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