I was testing out the Intel 905P and getting the benchmark numbers, I also went ahead and installed HyperV, set it up correctly, and then created a Windows 2016 VM running and decided to run the same CrystalDiskMark benchmarks again, in the HyperV host as well as inside the VM. I only had the one …
Today I’ve got some benchmarks on the Intel 905P SSD 960GB card. For reference, this is a PCIe add in card (4x lanes) that uses the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint (or Optane) memory instead of the usual NAND flash. The promise is really high random performance at low queue depths. For these benchmarks the server config is: …
One month I found myself in a situation where I had to take over an ERP vendor price file update that happens every two weeks. The actual import into the ERP system was fairly straight forward, as the prices have a built in “price not effective until such and such date” but due to reasons …
Recently I had the opportunity arise where I was able to test a few CPU core configurations on an unused host. My gold here is to see if a CPU virtualization penalty exists and secondarily to see what effect hyperthreading has on CPU performance in a single VM setting. Specs of the host: Dual Xeon …
In a recent post, I listed a benchmark using Cinebench R15 on a pair of Xeon Gold 6144 CPU’s. In that post, I mentioned that hyperthreading was enabled. How much of a difference did that make? To recap, here’s the full 16 physical/32 logical benchmark: And now, hyperthreading disabled: And there we go. Hyperthreading adds …
Recently I had a chance to introduce a new server into our environment spec’d out to use two CPU’s from Intel’s Xeon Gold family with the same amount of cores as the server it was replacing. Could their be an increase in CPU performance? Let’s find out, using a quick and easy way to measure: …
It’s AX code update time, and you’re needing to clear out everyone’s AX client side cache on your RDS host servers. That’s a lot of user folders to do through. Here’s what I do: Let’s start with some assumptions. You have the AX client deployed using Remote Desktop Services (RemoteAPP) You are not using User …
“You should clear that person’s AX cache”. How many times have you heard that? If you are running Dynamics 2012 (R2 in my case), this post may help. Let’s start with some assumptions. You have the AX client deployed using Remote Desktop Services (RemoteAPP) You are not using User Profile Disks You have multiple RDS …
As anyone who is an admin for Dynamics AX 2012 (R2 in my case) can attest, assigning user security roles can be a monotonous chore, especially if you have a high number of users that need specific roles. Initially when my company implemented AX, user security roles were added via the AX client. User to …