Performance tuning is a methodology of identifying performance issues and solving them. It is important to conduct performance and load testing and tuning before going live to eliminate the issues which can impact the business negatively. It does not matter whether you have high volumes or not; you still need performance testing. At this stage of the project, the infrastructure has been configured and reviewed to match the best practices. The development of custom features is complete and functional testing is in progress. This is the time to validate the overall performance of your Dynamics AX solution. The primary goal is to make sure that the solution will accept peak load without any major issue.
The key objective of this exercise is to establish a baseline for the key business scenarios and to test and execute performance tuning and optimization to achieve the following:
Create a baseline of your core business scenarios.
Simulate users and transactions in...