Specifications for the Microsoft Azure tests

Test environment

The FlexiCapture servers and the Database Server were installed on virtual machines rented from Microsoft Azure. The configuration was that of the typical On-Premises installation. At one point in the test, performance reached its maximum due to the limitations of the disk subsystem. Replacing the low-performing disk with the fastest disk available did not improve performance significantly. The new disk’s potential was soon used up as well.

Machine specifications

Machine role	Requirements
ABBYY FlexiCapture Servers: Application Server Processing Server Licensing Server	Azure Instance: F16 v2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 (SkyLake), 2.7 GHz 16 virtual CPU Cores 32.00 GiB Windows 2016
Database Server	Microsoft SQL Server Developer 2017 Azure Instance: E16 v2 Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell), 2.3 GHz 16 virtual CPU Cores 128.00 GiB Windows 2016
FileStorage	Premium SSD Managed Disk, attached to Virtual Machine Azure Instance: P30 Throughput per disk: 200 MB/s Azure Instance: P40 Throughput per disk: 250 MB/s
Processing Station	Azure Instance: F8 v2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 (SkyLake), 2.7 GHz 8 virtual CPU Cores 16.00 GiB Windows 2016
Workload generator	Azure Instance: F2 v2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 (SkyLake), 2.7 GHz 2 virtual CPU Cores 4.00 GiB Windows 2016
Backend	Shared SMB network folder where processing results are exported Azure Instance: F8 v2 Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 (SkyLake), 2.7 GHz 8 virtual CPU Cores 16.00 GiB Premium SSD Managed Disk, attached to Virtual Machine Azure Instance: P30 Throughput per disk: 200 MB/s Windows 2016

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Test environment

Machine specifications