AX2012 R3 Financial Benchmark Detailed Results

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This document provides a set of detailed results from benchmark testing of
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3.
November 2014
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Contents
Overview ....................................................................................................... 6
Benchmark load profile ............................................................................... 7
Online financial transactions load profile............................................................................................................................... 7
General ledger journal batch posting ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Management Reporter load profile .......................................................................................................................................... 7
Year-end closing process.............................................................................................................................................................. 7
Consolidation process.................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Benchmark logical architecture.................................................................. 8

Transactional processing, batch processing, and Management Reporter ................................................................ 8
Microsoft Dynamics AX system architecture ............................................ 9

Results summary Online transactional processing ................................ 9
Throughput measurements ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Response time measurements ................................................................................................................................................ 10
Utilization summary ..................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Detailed utilization statistics Online transactional processing........... 10

Typical AOS utilization statistics ............................................................................................................................................. 10
Overall AOS characteristics .................................................................................................................................................. 10
Representative AOS utilization ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Database utilization statistics ................................................................................................................................................... 11
Database server characteristics .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Database server utilization ................................................................................................................................................... 12
Input/output operations per second................................................................................................................................ 12
Database server IOPS ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
Database server batch requests per second ................................................................................................................. 14
Table counts affected by the benchmark ............................................................................................................................ 14
Results summary Batch posting of general journal entries ................ 16

Detailed utilization statistics Batch posting of general journal entries
..................................................................................................................... 16
Batch AOS utilization statistics ................................................................................................................................................ 16
Overall batch AOS characteristics ...................................................................................................................................... 16
Batch AOS utilization .............................................................................................................................................................. 17
IOPS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
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MICROSOFT DYNAMICS AX 2012 R3 FINANCIAL BENCHMARK DETAILED RESULTS

Table counts affected by batch posting of the general journal ................................................................................. 20
Results summary Management Reporter ............................................. 21

Throughput measurements ...................................................................................................................................................... 21
Response time measurements ................................................................................................................................................ 22
Detailed utilization statistics Management Reporter ......................... 22

Management Reporter server utilization statistics .......................................................................................................... 22
Management Reporter server characteristics Initial integration ....................................................................... 22
Management Reporter server utilization Initial integration ................................................................................ 23
Management Reporter server characteristics Periodic integration .................................................................. 23
Management Reporter server utilization Periodic integration ........................................................................... 24
Management Reporter server characteristics Balance sheet .............................................................................. 24
Management Reporter server utilization Balance sheet ....................................................................................... 25
Management Reporter server characteristics Income statement ..................................................................... 25
Management Reporter server utilization Income statement .............................................................................. 26
Management Reporter server characteristics Detail trial balance .................................................................... 26
Management Reporter server utilization Detail trial balance ............................................................................. 27
Management Reporter server characteristics Summary trial balance ............................................................. 27
Management Reporter server utilization Summary trial balance...................................................................... 28
Database server characteristics Initial integration ................................................................................................... 28
Database server utilization Initial integration ........................................................................................................... 29
IOPS Initial integration ....................................................................................................................................................... 29
Database server IOPS Initial integration ...................................................................................................................... 30
Database server batch requests per second Initial integration .......................................................................... 31
Database server characteristics Periodic integration ............................................................................................. 31
Database server utilization Periodic integration ...................................................................................................... 32
IOPS Periodic integration .................................................................................................................................................. 32
Database server IOPS Periodic integration ................................................................................................................ 33
Database server batch requests per second Periodic integration .................................................................... 34
Database server characteristics Balance sheet .......................................................................................................... 34
Database server utilization Balance sheet .................................................................................................................. 35
IOPS Balance sheet .............................................................................................................................................................. 35
Database server IOPS Balance sheet ............................................................................................................................. 36
Database server batch requests per second Balance sheet ................................................................................ 37
Database server characteristics Income statement ................................................................................................. 37
Database server utilization Income statement ......................................................................................................... 38
IOPS Income statement ..................................................................................................................................................... 38
Database server IOPS Income statement .................................................................................................................... 39
Database server batch requests per second Income statement........................................................................ 40
Database server characteristics Detail trial balance ................................................................................................ 40
Database server utilization Detail trial balance ........................................................................................................ 41
IOPS Detail trial balance .................................................................................................................................................... 41
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Database server IOPS Detail trial balance ................................................................................................................... 42

Database server batch requests per second Detail trial balance....................................................................... 43
Database server characteristics Summary trial balance ........................................................................................ 43
Database server utilization Summary trial balance ................................................................................................. 44
IOPS Summary trial balance ............................................................................................................................................. 44
Database server IOPS Summary trial balance ........................................................................................................... 45
Database server batch requests per second Summary trial balance ............................................................... 46
Management Reporter table counts affected by initial integration ......................................................................... 46
Management Reporter table counts affected by periodic integration ................................................................... 47
Microsoft Dynamics AX table counts affected by periodic integration .................................................................. 47
Results summary Year-end closing process ......................................... 48

Detailed utilization statistics Year-end closing process ...................... 48
IOPS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 50
Microsoft Dynamics AX table counts affected by the year-end closing process ................................................ 52
Results summary Consolidation ............................................................ 53

Detailed utilization statistics Consolidation ......................................... 53
IOPS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Microsoft Dynamics AX table counts affected by the consolidation process ...................................................... 57
Organization and chart of accounts......................................................... 58

Organization structure ................................................................................................................................................................ 58
Chart of accounts structure ...................................................................................................................................................... 58
Benchmark methodology ......................................................................... 59

Core online transaction scenarios .......................................................................................................................................... 59
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Batch processing ........................................................................................................................................................................... 59

Management Reporter ............................................................................................................................................................... 59
Scripting mechanism ................................................................................................................................................................... 59
How the benchmark client emulates the rich client ....................................................................................................... 59
Benchmark run-time architecture .......................................................................................................................................... 60
Batch jobbased workloads ...................................................................................................................................................... 60
Hardware layout and configuration ........................................................ 60

Two online AOS instances specification .............................................................................................................................. 60
Batch AOS instance specification ........................................................................................................................................... 60
Management Reporter server specification ....................................................................................................................... 61
Management Reporter software ............................................................................................................................................. 61
Database server specification .................................................................................................................................................. 61
Database software ........................................................................................................................................................................ 61
Visual Studio Ultimate controller and client specification ............................................................................................ 61
Controllers................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
Agents ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 61
Visual Studio Ultimate software .............................................................................................................................................. 62
Database disk configuration..................................................................................................................................................... 62
Microsoft Dynamics AX database data volume ........................................................................................................... 62
Microsoft Dynamics AX database transaction log volume ...................................................................................... 62
TempDB database data and transaction log volume ................................................................................................ 62
Microsoft Dynamics AX tuning on a non-customized installation ....... 62

Basic tuning ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 62
Tuning specific to this benchmark ......................................................................................................................................... 62
Disclaimer ................................................................................................... 63
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Overview
In August 2014, Microsoft conducted a financial benchmark of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 to
measure the applications performance and scalability characteristics for core financial functionality.
Multiple different workloads were simulated:
A set of financial transactions was run concurrently.
A batch of 500 general ledger (GL) journals of 1,000 journal lines each was posted in a separate test.
A set of management reporter reports and scenarios was executed.
A year-end closing process was run in a separate test.
A consolidation process was run in a separate test.
The benchmark was modeled by using two financial periods, previous period and current period. It
assumed that the customer was in a closing state for the previous period while entering regular business
transactions in the current period. For the closing process (for example, the summary trial balance), some
transaction data was created in the previous period before the benchmark run.
The defined scenarios were run with 500 concurrent financial users who generated load on the
Application Object Server (AOS) instances by using the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Benchmark SDK.
With this concurrent workload, a 16-core database server with 256 gigabytes (GB) of memory ran at
29.5 percent CPU utilization during the benchmark run, whereas the AOS instances, each of which had 12
cores and 16 GB of memory, were both at 10 percent CPU utilization. User experience measures were
below 2 to 4 seconds for intensive posting operations, and line save operations averaged sub-second
response times.
General journal batch posting was performed with a total of 500K journal lines. The posting was
completed within 13 minutes.
Management Reporter was tested with several scenarios, including initial integration, periodic integration,
and financial reports. The integrations showed that Management Reporter can create 236.8K Fact records
per minute. The reports also showed a good running time with 13M Fact records.
The year-end closing process finished within 64 minutes, with 5.7M general journal lines. This process
included closing journal entry creation, opening journal entry creation, and balance update.
Consolidation used two subsidiaries and one consolidation company. The total number of general journal
lines from the subsidiaries was 3.6M, and the consolidation was done within 3 hours, 24 minutes.
The overall benchmark results show the ability of Microsoft Dynamics AX and Management Reporter to
handle core financial scenarios with volume data while maintaining good performance measures.
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Benchmark load profile

This benchmark is intended to simulate large financial transactions and a set of reports generated by
Management Reporter.
Online financial transactions load profile

Module
GL
20.5%
AP
30.5%
AR
49%
Scenario name
General journal create and post
Trial balance Summary
Vendor invoice create and post
Percentage
20%
0.5%
22%
Vendor payment journal create

and post
Sales invoice create and post
8.5%
Free text invoice create and post

Customer payment journal create
and post
7%
12%
30%
Comment
Only an invoice is created and posted. The

purchase order (PO) has already been
created and confirmed.
The payment proposal feature is used.
Only an invoice is created and posted. The
sales order (SO) has already been created
and confirmed.
The payment proposal feature is used.
General ledger journal batch posting

A set of 500 journals with 1,000 lines per journal was posted in a separate test.
Management Reporter load profile

Scenario group
Integration
Financial statements
Scenario name
Initial integration
Periodic integration
Balance sheet
Comment
1.35M general journal lines were already
created, and 1.05M journal lines were also
created during periodic integration.
The default Management Reporter reports
are used for financial statements.
Income statement
Detail trial balance report
Summary trial balance report
Year-end closing process
A year-end closing process with general journal data created from the financial and Management
Reporter benchmark ran in a separate test.
Consolidation process
A consolidation from two subsidiaries to one parent company ran in a separate test.
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Benchmark logical architecture

Transactional processing, batch processing, and Management
Reporter
Figure 1 Logical benchmark architecture
The architecture for the transactional and batch processing includes the following:
AOS for the rich client (red)

AOS for batch processing (light blue)
Database server (green)
Management Reporter (yellow)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate load generator (dark blue)
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Microsoft Dynamics AX system architecture
Figure 2 System architecture
Components used in the benchmark include the following:

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 hosting the Microsoft Dynamics AX and Management Reporter database
AOS instances
.NET Business Connector for Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics AX workflows running through Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and
Windows Workflow Foundation
Services and Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Integration Framework (AIF)
Batch servers
For more information about the hardware and configuration layout, see the Hardware layout and
configuration section.
Results summary Online transactional processing

This scenario was focused on core financial business transactions.
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Throughput measurements
Transaction type
Ledger journal post
Purchase order invoice
Account payable payment journal transfer and post
Sales order invoice
Free text invoice post
Accounts receivable payment journal transfer and post
Total
Lines per hour

3,377
3,816
1,435
5,111
1,298
2,128
13,885
Response time measurements

Name
Ledger journal post
Purchase order invoice
Account payable payment journal transfer and post
Sales order invoice
Free text invoice post
Account receivable payment journal transfer and post
Trial balance
Response time (seconds)

0.94
4.21
1.79
2.09
2.63
1.33
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Utilization summary
Utilization measure
Number of concurrent users
Number of AOS instances supporting rich clients
Utilization of rich client AOS instances
Utilization of database server
Result
500
2
10.1%
29.5%
Detailed utilization statistics Online transactional processing

Typical AOS utilization statistics
This section shows the performance characteristics of one of the two AOS instances that were used to
support rich client interaction. These results describe the processor utilization of the AOS instance, and
also its memory characteristics.
Overall AOS characteristics
Measure
Average CPU utilization
Private bytes for working set memory
Benchmark value
10%
8,581 MB
10
Representative AOS utilization
Database utilization statistics

Database server characteristics
Processor
Percentage of processor time
SQL Server: SQL statistics
Batch requests/second
SQL compilations/second
SQL recompilations/second
29.5%
6,065
85.9
9.45
The following table lists the ranges of utilization for specific resources.
Resource
SQL Server total memory (KB)
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
88,579,006
241,572
88,724,776
241,544
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Database server utilization
Input/output operations per second

Disk Transfers/sec represent IOPS.
Counter
Minimum
Maximum
Average
Disk Transfers/sec Data
3.4
722
164
Disk Transfers/sec Log
68
168
114
Disk Write Bytes/sec Data
0
24,277,900
2,770,076
Disk Write Bytes/sec Log
801,435
2,378,444
1,420,177
Disk Read Bytes/sec Data
208,743
3,060,758
1,065,229
Disk Read Bytes/sec Log
0
4,367
17
Important: TempDB values within a controlled lab environment should not be used for sizing purposes.
For a production system, we recommend that you assume that you must support at least 80 percent of
the transaction log file input/output operations per second (IOPS) shown in this benchmark.
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Database server IOPS
13
Database server batch requests per second
Table counts affected by the benchmark
The following table lists the rows that were added to each table during benchmark runs.
Table
DIMENSIONFOCUSUNPROCESSEDTRANSACTIONS
GENERALJOURNALACCOUNTENTRY
TAXTRANSGENERALJOURNALACCOUNTENTRY
SUBLEDGERJOURNALACCOUNTENTRYDISTRIBUTION
TAXTRANS
SOURCEDOCUMENTLINE
INVENTSUMLOGTTS
ACCOUNTINGDISTRIBUTION
SUBLEDGERJOURNALACCOUNTENTRY
GENERALJOURNALENTRY
SUBLEDGERVOUCHERGENERALJOURNALENTRY
INVENTREPORTDIMHISTORY
INVENTTRANSPOSTING
SMMTRANSLOG
LEDGERJOURNALTRANS
Before
3,711,432
19,514,411
27,898,504
54,112,876
26,342,493
57,147,319
1,186,385
10,134,597
19,078,705
6,148,835
6,148,838
2,134,105
26,698,112
2,575,870
22,142,079
After
4,369,188
19,739,497
28,105,904
54,297,194
26,481,063
57,252,957
1,289,735
10,204,621
19,134,076
6,203,286
6,203,289
2,185,780
26,749,787
2,622,026
22,186,219
Delta
657,756
225,086
207,400
184,318
138,570
105,638
103,350
70,024
55,371
54,451
54,451
51,675
51,675
46,156
44,140
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Table
TAXUNCOMMITTED
CUSTINVOICETRANS
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTELEVELVALUE
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUEGROUPCOMBINATION
CUSTINVOICEPACKINGSLIPQUANTITYMATCH
SALESPARMLINE
ACCOUNTINGEVENT
SOURCEDOCUMENTLINERELIEVING
SOURCEDOCUMENTLINERELIEVINGAMOUNT
VENDINVOICEINFOLINE
VENDINVOICEINFOLINE_ASSET
VENDINVOICEMATCHINGLINE
VENDINVOICEPACKINGSLIPQUANTITYMATCH
VENDINVOICETRANS
TRANSACTIONLOG
CUSTTRANSCASHDISC
CUSTTRANS
CUSTTRANSIDREF
CUSTSETTLEMENT
VENDTRANS
VENDTRANSCASHDISC
VENDSETTLEMENT
SOURCEDOCUMENTHEADER
LEDGERTRANSVOUCHERLINK
DIMENSIONFOCUSBALANCE
MARKUPTRANS
LEDGERJOURNALTABLE
LEDGERENTRYJOURNAL
CUSTINVOICEJOUR
CUSTINVOICELINE
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUECOMBINATION
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUEGROUP
CUSTINVOICESALESLINK
RETAILCUSTINVOICEJOURTABLE
SALESPARMSUBTABLE
SALESPARMTABLE
SALESPARMUPDATE
SUBLEDGERJOURNALENTRY
BANKACCOUNTTRANS
DIMENSIONFOCUSLEDGERDIMENSIONREFERENCE
PURCHPARMUPDATE
VENDINVOICEINFOMARKUPMATCHINGTOLERANCE
VENDINVOICEINFOSUBTABLE
VENDINVOICEINFOTABLE
Before
4,943,905
11,534,080
3,961,610
2,669,106
1,272,605
6,298,798
5,597,656
1,530,933
1,530,933
2,531,646
2,531,620
2,531,590
1,530,261
6,533,589
225,906
4,612,256
4,641,611
4,641,603
71,576
3,675,047
3,920,449
92,190
6,927,209
64,137
15,804,118
6,463,304
2,174,740
2,438,092
2,307,899
5,256,435
876,849
1,307,001
1,256,154
1,254,522
2,863,801
2,862,676
2,859,649
2,714,743
4,629,589
122,820
3,358,813
1,106,034
1,307,040
1,306,766
After
4,981,431
11,570,780
3,997,905
2,701,314
1,302,145
6,328,338
5,625,650
1,553,068
1,553,068
2,553,781
2,553,755
2,553,725
1,552,396
6,555,724
245,469
4,626,936
4,656,281
4,656,273
86,238
3,689,338
3,933,730
105,342
6,939,019
75,599
15,815,544
6,473,596
2,182,781
2,445,888
2,315,239
5,263,761
884,114
1,314,260
1,262,062
1,260,430
2,869,709
2,868,584
2,865,557
2,720,602
4,635,321
127,548
3,363,240
1,110,461
1,311,467
1,311,193
Delta
37,526
36,700
36,295
32,208
29,540
29,540
27,994
22,135
22,135
22,135
22,135
22,135
22,135
22,135
19,563
14,680
14,670
14,670
14,662
14,291
13,281
13,152
11,810
11,462
11,426
10,292
8,041
7,796
7,340
7,326
7,265
7,259
5,908
5,908
5,908
5,908
5,908
5,859
5,732
4,728
4,427
4,427
4,427
4,427
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Table
VENDINVOICEJOUR
VENDINVOICEPURCHLINK
CUSTTRANSOPEN
CUSTINVOICETABLE
VENDTRANSOPEN
SYSCLIENTSESSIONS
SRSREPORTQUERY
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUECOMBINATIONSTATUS
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUEGROUPSTATUS
SYSEXCEPTIONTABLE
SYSUSERLOG
Before
1,308,181
1,307,902
4,586,400
1,051,924
3,583,071
1,053
28
8,422,154
820,659
1,266
203
After
1,312,608
1,312,329
4,588,852
1,053,399
3,584,210
1,190
136
8,422,184
820,689
1,290
218
Delta
4,427
4,427
2,452
1,475
1,139
137
108
30
30
24
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Results summary Batch posting of general journal entries

Name
500 journals with 1,000 lines per journal
Running time (mm:ss)

12:29
Detailed utilization statistics Batch posting of general journal

entries
Batch AOS utilization statistics
This section shows the performance characteristics of the batch AOS instance. These results describe the
processor utilization of the batch AOS instance, and also its memory characteristics.
Overall batch AOS characteristics
Measure
Benchmark value
31.88%
1.19 GB
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Batch AOS utilization

Processor
31.92%
12,099
5.634
0.103
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
29,240,797
240,259
30,930,432
281,040
17

Counter
Minimum
5.4
0
0
0
0
0
Maximum
3659
751
61,415,288
14,029,462
48,015,914
27,527,113
Average
745
220
10,463,403
6,226,342
9,137,541
818,204
18
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Table counts affected by batch posting of the general journal

The following table lists the rows that were added to each table during batch posting of the general
journal.
Table
TAXTRANS
BANKACCOUNTTRANS
SMMTRANSLOG
CUSTTRANS
CUSTTRANSIDREF
CUSTTRANSOPEN
GENERALJOURNALENTRY
VENDTRANS
Before
7,839,805
20,768,213
29,053,664
27,108,413
4,661,682
2,832,622
4,722,486
4,722,478
4,600,826
6,451,262
6,451,265
3,755,248
After
8,588,305
21,466,813
29,452,864
27,308,013
4,761,482
2,932,422
4,772,386
4,772,378
4,650,726
6,501,162
6,501,165
3,805,148
Delta
748,500
698,600
399,200
199,600
99,800
99,800
49,900
49,900
49,900
49,900
49,900
49,900
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Table
VENDTRANSOPEN
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUEGROUPSTATUS
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUECOMBINATIONSTATUS
LEDGERJOURNALPARMPOST
LEDGERENTRYJOURNAL
TRANSACTIONLOG
BATCHHISTORY
BATCH
BATCHJOB
BATCHJOBALERTS
BATCHJOBHISTORY
EVENTINBOX
EVENTINBOXDATA
Before
3,588,864
821,349
8,422,580
2
2,481,203
334,220
30,494
16,437
13,899
13,894
24,886
26,953
26,952
After
3,638,764
851,108
8,441,990
502
2,481,702
334,719
30,749
16,438
13,900
13,895
24,887
26,954
26,953
Delta
49,900
29,759
19,410
500
499
499
255
1
1
1
1
1
1
Results summary Management Reporter

Throughput measurements
The initial integration was processed by one task. For the periodic integration scenario, 1.35M journal lines
were created before periodic integration, and another 1.05M journal lines were created during the
periodic integration. There are two periodic integration tasks - both integrate general ledger transactions.
Task 1 is integrating pre-created records. This is necessary when we work with an artificial dataset. Task 2
integrates records which are created by the benchmark itself. Each task checks for changes at an interval
of 60 seconds. If changes are detected, it starts the integration. **
Scenario
Number of Fact
records created
Running time
(second = mm:ss)
Number of Fact
records created per
minute
Initial integration
51,727,954
13,211 (= 220:11)
235,127
Periodic integration (Task 1)
2,131,848
541 (= 9:01)
236,872*
Periodic integration (Task 2)
2,744,000
1,669 (= 27:49)
98,000*
* The throughput per minute is different because of the general journal creation speed. Periodic
integration task 1 handles already-existing journal lines. Periodic integration task 2 handles part of the
existing journals and the journals created during periodic integration.
** The following table is the default interval (second) of each transaction. General Ledger Transactions to
Fact is the main transaction during Periodic integration.
Name
Interval
AX 2012 Accounts to Account
300
AX 2012 Account Categories to Account Category
300
AX 2012 Dimensions to Dimension
300
AX 2012 Dimension Combinations to Dimension Combination
60
AX 2012 Dimension Values to Dimension Value
300
AX 2012 Exchange Rates to Exchange Rate
300
AX 2012 General Ledger Transactions to Fact
60
AX 2012 Fiscal Years to Fiscal Year
60
21
AX 2012 Companies to Organization
300
AX 2012 Scenarios to Scenario
300
AX 2012 Companies to Company
300
AX 2012 Organization Hierarchies to Tree
300
Response time measurements
The following table describes the running time of financial statements that included 13M Fact records.
Name
Response time (mm:ss)
Balance sheet
3:56
Income statement
1:57
Detail trial balance
9:05
Summary trial balance
22:34*
* The summary trial balance is slower than the detail trial balance because the summary trial balance
brings in beginning balance information and therefore aggregates all year-to-date (YTD) entries (less the
current period) for the calculation of the opening balance amount. By contrast, the detail trial balance
only reports against a single period.
Detailed utilization statistics Management Reporter

Management Reporter server utilization statistics
This section shows the performance characteristics of the Management Reporter server. These results
describe the processor utilization of the server instance, and also its memory characteristics, for each
scenario.
Management Reporter server characteristics Initial integration
Measure
Benchmark value
3.89%
2,704 MB
22
Management Reporter server utilization Initial integration
Management Reporter server characteristics Periodic integration

Measure
Benchmark value
20.84%
12.8 GB
23
Management Reporter server utilization Periodic integration
Management Reporter server characteristics Balance sheet

Measure
Benchmark value
2.28%
3,891 MB
24
Management Reporter server utilization Balance sheet
Management Reporter server characteristics Income statement

Measure
Benchmark value
2.47%
4,091 MB
25
Management Reporter server utilization Income statement
Management Reporter server characteristics Detail trial balance

Measure
Benchmark value
2.00%
4,449 MB
26
Management Reporter server utilization Detail trial balance
Management Reporter server characteristics Summary trial balance

Measure
Benchmark value
2.10%
4,166 MB
27
Management Reporter server utilization Summary trial balance

Database server characteristics Initial integration
Processor
9.52%
23.379
2.611
0.268
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
137,212,145
365,180
140,061,280
366,424
28
Database server utilization Initial integration
Input/output operations per second Initial integration

Counter
Minimum
5.4
1
0
478
0
0
Maximum
11,730
263
38,041,844
148,707,386
403,654,689
9,016
Average
136
14
1,006,801
1,485,225
4,356,594
39
29
Database server IOPS Initial integration
30
Database server batch requests per second Initial integration
Database server characteristics Periodic integration

Processor
31.13%
6,002
5.739
0.757
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
168,478,320
430,368
172,894,056
430,368
31
Database server utilization Periodic integration
Input/output operations per second Periodic integration

Counter
Minimum
0
0.07
0
68
0
0
Maximum
12,789
416
73,235,874
15,023,858
459,301,154
10,180,329
Average
1,369
120
7,600,101
5,194,866
29,308,428
208,689
32
Database server IOPS Periodic integration
33
Database server batch requests per second Periodic integration
Database server characteristics Balance sheet

Processor
13.12%
23.821
4.586
0.545
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
9,066,164
13,566
9,511,440
14,264
34
Database server utilization Balance sheet
IOPS Balance sheet

Counter
Minimum
5.4
1
0
580
0
0
Maximum
434
157
4,308,606
9,913,806
28,826,607
26,748
Average
49
12
544,415
647,936
3,669,553
1,306
35
Database server IOPS Balance sheet
36
Database server batch requests per second Balance sheet
Database server characteristics Income statement

Processor
14.3%
31.877
6.867
0.808
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
10,136,633
15,723
10,228,856
15,816
37
Database server utilization Income statement
Input/output operations per second Income statement

Counter
Minimum
0.5
1.26
0
887
0
0
Maximum
115
51
2,475,548
2,455
19,476,411
4,367
Average
30
9
547,163
322,478
3,208,154
546
38
Database server IOPS Income statement
39
Database server batch requests per second Income statement
Database server characteristics Detail trial balance

Processor
13.46%
23.431
3.327
0.602
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
16,272,738
16,384
20,923,400
16,416
40
Database server utilization Detail trial balance
IOPS Detail trial balance

Counter
Minimum
Maximum
0
1
0
478
0
0
212
35
1,869,051
148,707,386
42,368,115
4,367
Average
33
3
399,166
1,485,225
7,946,245
224
41
Database server IOPS Detail trial balance
42
Database server batch requests per second Detail trial balance
Database server characteristics Summary trial balance

Processor
13.5%
22.228
3.444
0.575
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
32,002,433
17,885
35,894,584
18,200
43
Database server utilization Summary trial balance
Input/output operations per second Summary trial balance

Counter
Minimum
Maximum
0
1
0
478
0
0
321
196
3,540,557
13,225,606
24,370,273
9,826
Average
37
5
365,949
161,193
3,552,329
161
44
Database server IOPS Summary trial balance
45
Database server batch requests per second Summary trial balance
Management Reporter table counts affected by initial integration

The following table lists the rows that were added to each Management Reporter table during initial
integration.
Table
Fact
FactAttributeValue
ConvertedAmount
DimensionCombinationArchive
DimensionCombination
DimensionValue
DimensionValueAttributeValue
DimensionsPeriodBalance
Account
Period
DimensionDefinition
ExchangeRate
Before
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
After
51,727,954
51,727,954
25,760,057
13,427,949
7,680,914
769,864
768,730
698,671
8,455
2,349
491
469
Delta
51,727,954
51,727,954
25,760,057
13,427,949
7,680,914
769,864
768,730
698,671
8,455
2,349
491
469
46
Table
DimensionValueCriterion
FiscalYear
Scenario
AccountCategory
AttributeDefinition
Organization
ExchangeRateType
TableStatus
AccountType
UnitOfMeasure
PostingLayer
Before
After
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Delta
305
204
129
57
39
20
13
12
8
8
3
305
204
129
57
39
20
13
12
8
8
3
Management Reporter table counts affected by periodic integration

The following table lists the rows that were added to each Management Reporter table during periodic
integration.
Table
FactAttributeValue
Fact
ConvertedAmount
DimensionCombinationStaging
FactStaging
DimensionsPeriodBalance
DimensionCombination
Before
51,727,954
51,727,954
25,760,057
0
0
698,671
7,680,914
After
56,603,802
56,251,336
28,197,981
414,176
352,466
927,467
7,706,800
Delta
4,875,848
4,523,382
2,437,924
414,176
352,466
228,796
25,886
Microsoft Dynamics AX table counts affected by periodic integration
The following table lists the rows that were added to each Microsoft Dynamics AX table during periodic
integration. The tables are not affected by periodic integration itself; instead, they are affected by general
journal creation that feeds data for periodic integration.
Table
TAXTRANS
BANKACCOUNTTRANS
SMMTRANSLOG
CUSTTRANSOPEN
VENDTRANSOPEN
VENDTRANS
CUSTTRANSIDREF
GENERALJOURNALENTRY
CUSTTRANS
Before
20,974,618
27,138,817
29,836,864
27,500,013
6,960,625
4,857,482
3,028,422
4,249,828
4,698,726
7,382,499
3,686,764
3,853,148
4,820,378
7,382,496
4,820,386
After
22,117,018
28,204,741
30,445,512
27,804,337
7,119,408
5,009,802
3,180,742
4,387,774
4,774,886
7,458,659
3,762,924
3,929,308
4,896,538
7,458,656
4,896,546
Delta
1,142,400
1,065,924
608,648
304,324
158,783
152,320
152,320
137,946
76,160
76,160
76,160
76,160
76,160
76,160
76,160
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Table
LEDGERENTRYJOURNAL
TRANSACTIONLOG
BATCHHISTORY
SYSTRACETABLESQLTABREF
SYSLASTVALUE
EVENTINBOX
BATCHJOB
BATCHJOBHISTORY
BATCH
NUMBERSEQUENCELIST
EVENTINBOXDATA
SYSUTILELEMENTSLOG
SYSTRACETABLESQL
BATCHJOBALERTS
Before
2,074,967
1,250,904
3,315,516
1,168,533
31,941
47
256
26,958
13,904
24,891
17,284
0
26,957
103
273
13,899
After
2,111,235
1,276,790
3,316,468
1,169,485
32,423
50
258
26,959
13,905
24,892
17,285
1
26,958
104
274
13,900
Delta
36,268
25,886
952
952
482
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Results summary Year-end closing process

Name
Year-end closing process
Number of input journal lines

5,739,722
Running time (hh:mm:ss)

1:04:16
Detailed utilization statistics Year-end closing process

This section shows the performance characteristics of the batch AOS instance during the year-end closing
process. These results describe the processor utilization of the batch AOS instance, and also its memory
characteristics.
Measure
Benchmark value
4.04%
6,672 MB
48

Processor
15.67%
2,099
0.606
0.113
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
132,268,653
2,864,727
132,279,072
2,969,632
49

Counter
Minimum
Maximum
0
0
0
0
0
0
3,358
2,132
133,027,258
52,979,325
161,640,319
4,372
Average
195
169
3,744,060
3,020,397
4,405,915
39
50
51
Microsoft Dynamics AX table counts affected by the year-end closing

process
The following table lists the rows that were added to each Microsoft Dynamics AX table during the yearend closing process.
Table
BATCHCONSTRAINTSHISTORY
BATCHHISTORY
SYSEXCEPTIONTABLE
BATCH
SYSUSERLOG
Before
4,517,877
7,376,737
11,104,987
2,240,807
1,406,359
11,332
32,507
3,479,001
1,410
17,291
266
After
4,855,818
7,711,169
11,381,531
2,311,257
1,468,602
11,497
32,612
3,479,091
1,422
17,293
268
Delta
337,941
334,432
276,544
70,450
62,243
165
105
90
12
2
2
52
Table
EVENTINBOX
BATCHJOB
BATCHJOBHISTORY
EVENTINBOXDATA
TRANSACTIONLOG
GENERALJOURNALENTRY
BATCHJOBALERTS
Before
7,458,662
26,962
13,908
24,895
26,961
1,169,488
1,658,656
13,903
After
7,458,663
26,963
13,909
24,896
26,962
1,169,489
1,658,657
13,904
Delta
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Results summary Consolidation

The consolidation was tested by using two subsidiaries and one parent company.
Name
Number of journal lines per
Running time (hh:mm:ss)
subsidiary
Consolidation process
1,961,072 (Subsidiary 1)
3:24:38
1,647,450 (Subsidiary 2)
Detailed utilization statistics Consolidation

This section shows the performance characteristics of the batch AOS instance during consolidation. These
results describe the processor utilization of the batch AOS instance, and also its memory characteristics.
Measure
Benchmark value
1.40%
2,433 MB
53

Processor
7.16%
1,034
0.412
0.030
Resource
Lock memory (KB)
Average
Maximum
138,368,579
2,969,670
146,054,144
2,969,760
54

Counter
Minimum
Maximum
0
0
0
0
0
0
1,905
1,363
229,421,369
59,358,546
114,996,418
4,372
Average
75
40
2,623,348
1,892,870
1,647,133
5
55
56
Microsoft Dynamics AX table counts affected by the consolidation

process
The following table lists the rows that were added to each Microsoft Dynamics AX table during the
consolidation process.
Table
LEDGERENTRY
LEDGERCONSOLIDATEHISTREF
DIMENSIONATTRIBUTEVALUE
MAINACCOUNT
Before
3,479,091
7,711,169
209,916
11,381,531
30
2,311,257
1,468,602
4,855,818
409,334
4,241
After
4,873,665
7,787,155
276,044
11,447,659
66,158
2,351,233
1,508,578
4,895,794
409,979
4,885
Delta
1,394,574
75,986
66,128
66,128
66,128
39,976
39,976
39,976
645
644
57
Table
GENERALJOURNALENTRY
LEDGERCONSOLIDATESOURCEDIMENSION
SYSEXCEPTIONTABLE
SYSLASTVALUE
BATCHHISTORY
LEDGERCONSOLIDATEHIST
TRANSACTIONLOG
BATCHCONSTRAINTSHISTORY
SYSUSERLOG
EVENTINBOX
BATCHJOB
BATCHJOBHISTORY
BATCH
EVENTINBOXDATA
BATCHJOBALERTS
Before
7,458,663
1,658,657
26
1,422
262
32,612
2
1,169,489
11,497
268
26,963
13,909
24,896
17,293
26,962
13,904
After
7,458,722
1,658,716
52
1,434
266
32,616
4
1,169,491
11,499
270
26,964
13,910
24,897
17,294
26,963
13,905
Delta
59
59
26
12
4
4
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Organization and chart of accounts

Organization structure
Parent
company
Subsidiary
CEC
CEED
CEU
Chart of accounts structure
Main
account
Department
Cost center
Business
unit
Project
Purpose
Worker
Dimension name
Number of dimension values
Main account
1,076
Department
142
Cost center
4,752
Business unit
70
Project
81
Purpose
11
Worker
326
More than 1.5M chart of account combinations (DimensionAttributeValueCombination) are created and
used for transactions.
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Benchmark methodology
Core online transaction scenarios
Visual Studio Ultimate was used as a load driver to simulate concurrent users through .NET Business
Connector.
Measurements were recorded on the servers used for the benchmark and were measured when the
concurrency reached a steady state. The steady state was maintained for a minimum of 60 minutes, with
repeat runs that were within acceptable deviation for throughput and response times.
Batch processing
The processing included batch general journal posting, year-end closing, and consolidation. The existing
Microsoft Dynamics AX features were used to start the batch process, and the measurements were
captured through the Microsoft Dynamics AX batch framework and performance monitor.
Management Reporter
The existing Management Reporter features were used to run the scenarios. Management Reporter task
viewer was used to monitor the scenario status. Measurements were captured through the Management
Reporter log system and performance monitor.
Scripting mechanism
Benchmark scripts were created by using the Microsoft Dynamics AX wrapper generator for individual
Application Object Tree (AOT) objects. The wrapper generator exposes relevant Microsoft Dynamics AX
metadata through Visual Studio. The Add-in Framework provides the capability to generate code around
classes and tables, and it creates wrappers intelligently around any class or table and its interfaces.
How the benchmark client emulates the rich client
The benchmark client runs through .NET Business Connector and goes through the same class flow as a
rich clientbased form. These scripts were built to replicate the behavior of a business process being
performed on a rich client that is connected to an AOS instance.
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Benchmark run-time architecture
The following rules were followed for the benchmark:
Benchmark runs had a minimum steady state of one hour.

The ramp-up duration was approximately 15 minutes.
Batch jobbased workloads
The AX 2012 R3 batch framework and WCF service calls were used to simulate batch workloads.
Hardware layout and configuration

Online simulation: 2 AOS instances
Batch AOS: 1 AOS instance
Visual Studio controller: 1
Visual Studio agents: 10
The following sections provide detailed information.
Two online AOS instances specification
2-processor, 6-core (12 cores)

2.67-gigahertz (GHz) Intel Xeon CPU X5650
16 GB of random access memory (RAM)
64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
Batch AOS instance specification

2.67-GHz Intel Xeon CPU X5650
16 GB of RAM
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64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
Management Reporter server specification

Used the same computer as the batch AOS instance.
Management Reporter software
Management Reporter 2.1.10001.101

Management Reporter task viewer 2.9.0.0
Database server specification

2194-megahertz (MHz) AMD Opteron Processor 6174
256 GB of RAM
Database software

64-bit version of SQL Server 2012 (Build 11.0.2100.60)
Visual Studio Ultimate controller and client specification

Controllers
Rich client simulation

16 GB of RAM
Agents
Two agents
2.13-GHz Intel Xeon CPU L5630
16 GB of RAM
Four agents
16 GB of RAM
Two agents
1-processor, 2-core
2.60-GHz Intel Xeon CPU E5-4650L
8 GB of RAM
64-bit version of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
Two agents
1-processor, 8-core
2.60-GHz Intel Xeon CPU E5-4650L
16 GB of RAM
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64-bit version of Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
Visual Studio Ultimate software

64-bit version of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Database disk configuration
HP logical volume SCSI disk drive

RAID 10 disk volumes
Microsoft Dynamics AX database data volume
40 physical disks, 15K RPM, 146-GB, SAS, 2.5-inch, RAID 10 (HP DAS)
2.67-TB volume
510-GB data file
Microsoft Dynamics AX database transaction log volume
4 drives, 15K RPM, 146-GB, SAS, 2.5-inch, RAID 10 (HP DAS)

273-GB volume
24.3-GB transaction log file
TempDB database data and transaction log volume
6 physical disks, 15K RPM

410-GB volume
16 2-GB data files
4-GB transaction log file
Microsoft Dynamics AX tuning on a non-customized installation

Basic tuning
All general tuning recommendations posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/axperf have been applied. Number
sequences have been optimized.
Tuning specific to this benchmark

The following main tuning is applied to improve performance.
Object
SubledgerJournalAccountEntry
CustInvoiceSalesLink
LedgerTransVoucherLink
CustTransCashDisc
VendTransCashDisc
Tuning
The TransactionCurrency column is added as an included column on
the SubledgerJournalEntryIdx index.
A new index is created that has SalesId and OrigSalesId columns.
A new index is created that has Voucher and TransDate columns.
A new index is created that has RefRecId and RefTableId columns.
A new index is created that has RefRecId and RefTableId columns.
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Disclaimer
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Benchmark logical architecture.................................................................. 8

Microsoft Dynamics AX system architecture ............................................ 9

Detailed utilization statistics Online transactional processing........... 10

Results summary Batch posting of general journal entries ................ 16

Database server IOPS ............................................................................................................................................................. 19

Results summary Management Reporter ............................................. 21

Detailed utilization statistics Management Reporter ......................... 22

Database server IOPS Detail trial balance ................................................................................................................... 42

Results summary Year-end closing process ......................................... 48

Results summary Consolidation ............................................................ 53

Organization and chart of accounts......................................................... 58

Benchmark methodology ......................................................................... 59

Batch processing ........................................................................................................................................................................... 59

Hardware layout and configuration ........................................................ 60

Microsoft Dynamics AX tuning on a non-customized installation ....... 62

Benchmark load profile

Online financial transactions load profile

Vendor payment journal create

Free text invoice create and post

Only an invoice is created and posted. The

General ledger journal batch posting

Management Reporter load profile

Year-end closing process

Benchmark logical architecture

Figure 1 Logical benchmark architecture

AOS for the rich client (red)

Microsoft Dynamics AX system architecture

Figure 2 System architecture

Components used in the benchmark include the following:

Results summary Online transactional processing

Lines per hour

Response time measurements

Response time (seconds)

Detailed utilization statistics Online transactional processing

Representative AOS utilization

Database utilization statistics

Database server utilization

Input/output operations per second

Database server IOPS

Database server batch requests per second

Table counts affected by the benchmark

MICROSOFT DYNAMICS AX 2012 R3 FINANCIAL BENCHMARK DETAILED RESULTS

MICROSOFT DYNAMICS AX 2012 R3 FINANCIAL BENCHMARK DETAILED RESULTS

Results summary Batch posting of general journal entries

Running time (mm:ss)

Detailed utilization statistics Batch posting of general journal

Batch AOS utilization

Database utilization statistics

Database server utilization

Input/output operations per second

Database server IOPS

Database server batch requests per second

Table counts affected by batch posting of the general journal

MICROSOFT DYNAMICS AX 2012 R3 FINANCIAL BENCHMARK DETAILED RESULTS

Results summary Management Reporter

AX 2012 Account Categories to Account Category

AX 2012 Dimensions to Dimension

AX 2012 Dimension Combinations to Dimension Combination

AX 2012 Dimension Values to Dimension Value