Microsoft Azure's New GS-Series VMs, D-Series Price Cuts Are Good News for Dynamics AX Customers

Measuring throughput on a GS-series (Source) 

Microsoft has rolled out the new GS-series of Azure virtual machines, broadening its range of computing-intensive IaaS offerings for larger enterprises. Microsoft Dynamics AX customers looking for higher levels of performance and Premium Storage from Azure could benefit from the new VM, wrote Christian Pedersen, general manager for Microsoft Dynamics AX, in a blog post about the new VMs.

"The capabilities offered by the new GS-series give even more choice to our customers to deploy Dynamics AX on Microsoft Azure - capabilities such as supporting high volume transaction volumes [sic] to enable real-time inventory and BI capabilities that any global, world class enterprise requires to run their business critical applications," according to Pedersen.

The GS series of VMs offers a level that could be more than many Dynamics AX customers will need, says Tim Harris, vice president of strategy and solutions at Arbela, a veteran AX partner.

"There will be scenarios under the lower end of the GS series - likely in the GS-2 or GS-3 range - which will support high transaction volumes in some AX scenarios for large distributers or high volume manufactures," says Harris. He adds that many of the other uses for the GS-series machines will likely be in scenarios that involve next level disk throughput for heavy applications ...