Option 3: High Available Application Production Server

Virtual Machine 1 : SQL Server

Minimum Hardware Resources

• Processor 8 vCores 2,4 GHz
• Memory 64 GB
• Disk space per (virtual)drive:
  • OS 100 GB
  • SQL Data 200 GB SSD storage, min. 15.000 IOPS (NTFS cluster size 64 KB)
  • SQL Log 100 GB SSD storage, min. 15.000 IOPS (NTFS cluster size 64 KB)
  • Backup 200 GB

Minimum Software Requirements

• SQL Server 2019 / 2022 Standard or Enterprise (64-bit edition)

Virtual Machine 2 and 3 : Business Central Application

Minimum Hardware Resources

• Processor 8 vCores 2,4 GHz
• Memory 64 GB
• Disk space per (virtual)drive:
  • OS 100 GB

Minimum Software Requirements

• Windows Server 2022 Standard or DataCenter
• SQL Server Management Studio 20.x
• Wildcard TLS / SSL certificate

Virtual Machine 4 : Business Central Application (non Production)

Minimum Hardware Resources

• Processor 4 vCores 2,4 GHz
• Memory 64 GB
• Disk space per (virtual)drive:
  • OS 100 GB

Minimum Software Requirements

• Windows Server 2022 Standard or DataCenter
• SQL Server Management Studio 20.x
• Wildcard TLS / SSL certificate

General requirements

• File-share for Document Storage
  • not on use a SQL Server or Dynamics 365 Business Central Server
  • NOTE Azure Blob Storage is supported

Tip

• Be up-to-date with the latest Windows Updates
• Set Windows Power setting on High Performance for better performance