Performance
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How is this perf testing thing actually working?
This post is #3 in a series of posts about performance testing. Post #1 was all about setting up an instance of NAV on Azure and get perf tests up running. Post #2 was all about scaling the number of users and running multi-tenancy. But what actually happens when running perf tests? When running a perf test called OpenCustomerList it doesn’t take a lot of thinking to figure out what the test does, but how does it do it? The...
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Perf testing with multiple users
This post is #2 in a series of posts about performance testing, please make sure you have read this post first. In the previous post, you created a NAV Virtual Machine, installed Visual Studio, install Git, Cloned the NAV 2017-Sample repository from the NAVPERF organization, configured the settings and ran the test scenarios. Now, we need to add users. Users and Tenants When testing your solution it is important to run your tests in an environment as close to real-life as...
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Word Management
As with the release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, I was also deeply involved in the TAP for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1. My primary role in the TAP is to assist ISVs and partners in getting a customer live on the new version before we ship the product. During this project we file a lot of bugs and the development team in Copenhagen are very responsive and we actually get a lot of bugs fixed – but… not all...
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More SSD testing
If you haven’t read my post about Running Microsoft Dynamics NAV on SSD’s – you should do so first. After having posted the initial results, I was contacted by other vendors of SSD’s wanting to see whether we could do some additional testing on other hardware. In the interest of the end user, I accepted and once more allocated a slot in the performance lab in Copenhagen. The new drives to test were: STEC 3½” Zeus IOPS SSD 146GB STEC...
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Running Microsoft Dynamics NAV on SSD’s (Solid State Drives)
Solid State Drives are here. Laptops are sold with SSD’s (a bit expensive) and also the server market is seeing SSD’s coming out promising incredible performance from your storage. But what does this mean for NAV? I contacted FusionIO (www.fusionio.com), one of the major players in the high end SSD market and borrowed a drive for my server. The purpose of this was to test the performance of the drive in our NAV performance lab in Copenhagen. I also wanted...
