Hardware Guide for Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV 4.0 (Version 4)

The whitepaper provides hardware sizing for Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV (version 4.0) installations.

The whitepaper goes into specific detail as to the exact hardware requirements for a variety of Dynamics™ NAV configurations.

Change log between version 3 and version 4:
• Added information on using multiple *.FDB files on multiple RAID 1’s for large C/Side database.
• Updated references to SATA drives to SAS drives. SATA drives have a top speed of 7200 RPM this is not fast enough. SAS drives have a top speed of 15,000 RPM.
• Included Windows Vista as a supported client platform
• Included the recommendation to use internal server storage for small installs
• Introduced a section on processor cores
• Introduced a section on SQL 2005 Standard Edition vs. Enterprise Edition
• Introduced a section discussing x86 vs. x64 platforms
• Updated the “Server” specs for SQL 2005
• Updated the “Storage” specs for SQL Server
• Introduced a section on Terminal Server sizing

Change log between version 2 and version 3:
• Introduce a recommendation using Small Business Server (SBS) for less than 5 users (SQL 2005 section)
• Introduce a recommendation for installation up to 25 users (SQL 2005 section)
• Update the limitations of Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV running with SQL 2005 with the latest fixes (SQL 2005 section)
• Introduce RAID 10 as an alternative to RAID 0+1 (Storage section)
• Remove references to 18GB disks. 18GB disks can hardly be found (Storage section)
• Increase the size of the disks for the SQL Transaction Log and reduce their number. It aligns the number of disks with the storage bays commonly available (Storage section)
• Introduce a sub-section on configuring Logical Units (Storage section)
• Introduce the Database Resource Kit (References section)

Change log between version 1 and version 2:
• Change the document title to “Hardware Guide”
• Modify the section “Purpose, Terms & Conditions” to add the official positioning for Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV
• Remove the section “Executive Summary”
• New section “Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV Client”
• New section “References”
• Remove the recommendations for above 100 concurrent users - except for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Clarify the limitations of the Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV Database Server (clustering, RAM and CPU)
• Clarify the use of dual-core processors
• Increase the memory recommendati ons for Microsoft SQL Server
• Modify the recommended drive letters for storage for all servers
• Modify the RAID recommendations and increase the storage requirements for the Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs (all database sizes)
• Clarify and detail the storage requirements for all servers