Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Service Pack 1 Performance Benchmark on Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 2016

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Contents Applies to ....................................................................................................................... 4 Overview ......................................................................................................................... 4 Objective......................................................................................................................... 4 Results summary ............................................................................................................ 4 Data load ........................................................................................................................ 5 Organization structure .................................................................................................. 6 Customizations ............................................................................................................... 7 User data......................................................................................................................... 7 Infrastructure and environment configuration............................................................ 9 Environment topology ......................................................................................................................... 9 Microsoft SQL Server ........................................................................................................................... 9 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server ........................................................................................................10

Testing method ............................................................................................................ 10 Setup configuration ...........................................................................................................................10 Tuning and optimizations ..................................................................................................................10

Test results ................................................................................................................... 11 Test run details ..................................................................................................................................11 Processor utilization ...........................................................................................................................11 Web servers .......................................................................................................................................11 SQL Server .........................................................................................................................................12 Available memory (Megabytes) ..................................