Friday, August 2, 2013

Dynamics AX 2012 performance boost tip: Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Management (PPM) feature

I've been asked about 'tricks' to increasing performance of AX instances. While there are several things that can be looked at, part of this to look at the server itself to see how things can be configured to make the machine itself run faster.

One super easy trick is to look at the Power Management setting on the server (Figure 1). If its set to 'Balanced', the server has known degradation issues. I first found this out here Microsoft Support - Degraded overall performance on Windows Server 2008 R2 back in late 2011.

By default, the 'Balanced' settings is used instead of 'High performance'. Why? Most computers will operate with highs and lows during the day instead of constantly being pegged at a high load. Windows Server dynamics performance scaling functionality is only active when in 'Balanced' so the power to performance ratio is optimized and is the 'greener' choice. As I understand, its a battle of efficiency vs being top of the game all the time and utilizing a lot of power unnecessarily. For a server like an AOS, I would almost always recommend 'High Performance.

About power manager feature:
MSDN - PPM in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server Blog - Power Management in Windows Server 2008 R2 – Improving your “gas mileage”

Some more ways to enhance performance on the server

Figure 1 - The PPM selection feature in Windows Server 2008 R2


4 comments:

  1. In my company i am facing performance issue, we are using AX 2012 r2, it is very slow, can I have your email id or skype id, I need your help, we have 50gb ram and we have active users 30+ but very bad performance, I request you help on this or give us some inputs,
    My skype id is ncalebkiran my email id is ncalebkiran@gmail.com, kindly give us your email id or skype id

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    1. Caleb, I just shot you an email. It shouldn't go to your spam folder but if you don't see it, let me know.

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  2. We are also facing the slowness issue in our company. Our user is more than 45 and hard dist is still free for 90GB and 10GB RAM. But its very slow. Please let me know any good solution. or send me skype id or email address. MY address is farhan.naseer236@gmail.com

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