Hi Joe,
I've been supporting Dynamics GP for the last 14 years... and virtualized GP servers for the past 10 years.. VMWare, Citrix & Windows Terminal server.. All configs that are supported by GP.
13 GP companies is by no means a big deal, however, I'm wondering about the 340Gb of data accross your GP system.. Does that include only the GP DB's or also MR 2012 ?
That's an average of 28Gb per company (as the DYNAMICS system DB doesn't ususally grow very large) ! Which module are you using in GP that makes up for so much data ? are you using Manufacturing and generating a lot of forecasting ? I've seen this in my past company where the GP company was around 27GB, but before implementing the MfG module & forecasting, it was around 10-12Gb.. the size was double the original after Mfg was implemented.
Which 3-rd party modules / ISV products are you using ?
Our current config hosts about 15 active GP companies (not talking about TEST & archive data) and our GP server has 12Gb of RAM, 2 dual-core CPU's, and about 200GB of hard-drives (3 in total) split up for system & SQL data. All is virtualized with VMWare. The largest company DB is about 14Gb and holds >10 yrs of data.
We have multiple systems gravitating around GP, and most VM's are sized around that.
Send me a DM if you want more details..
Hope this helps to start your project.
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Beat Bucher
Business Analyst, Dynamics GP MVP
Ultra-Electronics Forensic Technology Inc.
Montreal QC/Canada
@GP_Beat
http://dyngpbeat.wordpress.com/Montreal QC GPUG Chapter Leader
GP2013R2 / MR2012 CU14
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-28-2017 03:55 PM
From: Joe Guyton
Subject: Running Dynamics GP 2016 on VMware
Hello,
I'm looking for guidance and assistance in planning for our GP 2016 upgrade that will happen in Q1 of 2018. I'm looking for someone who has extensive VMWare and GP experience. I really need some help in getting realistic hardware specifications to our IT team for the SQL server and terminal servers. The GP 2016 web client might be an option for some of the users; but, most of team that access GP will require access to the client on a terminal server. I've reviewed the requirements for GP 2016 that Microsoft provides and the minimum is well..... the minimum, it's not going to cut it.
Currently we are using GP 2013 R2.
FRx is being replaced with BI-360 and not in the scope of this project. It will be complete before.
Managment Reporter will be replaced with BI-360 and not in the scope of this project.
We have many third party products.
Our production installation has 13 company databases. The GP company and Dynamics databases total about 340 Gig.
We use SSRS in native mode for some reporting.
Our system is licensed for 93 GP users and we are running anywhere from 65 to 80 concurrent users
Currently we have 7 terminal servers for production GP end user access
We have a test system that can replicate production.
I can provide more detail upon request. Please message me if you are interested.
Thanks
Joe
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Joe Guyton
Accounting Systems Administrator
Elior, North America
Ridgeland MS
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