1. Feb 6-7, 2104 Hyatt Residency Bellevue

2. Yabin Liu Program Manager

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5. Need to PUSH the limits

6. WAN Store HQ Smart Phone Retail Server 3rd Party Plugins 3 P E x t. 3 P E x t. ODATA/REST CRT APIs 3 rd Party Extensio ns 3 rd Party Extensio ns 3 rd Party Extensio ns Private WIFI Private LAN Back-office workstation Back-office workstation Private LAN Dynamics AX Retail Server (in store) Modern POS Private LAN Hardware station Store database Enterprise POS Microsoft Confidential

7. WAN/LAN E-Commerce Storefront HQ Commerce AJAX services 3rd Party Plugins 3 P E x t. 3 P E x t. CRT APIs 3 rd Party Extensio ns 3 rd Party Extensio ns Back-office workstation Back-office workstation Private LAN Dynamics AX Private LAN Channel database Microsoft Confidential SharePoint Connector Job 3rd Party Plugins 3 P E x t. 3 P E x t. CRT APIs 3 rd Party Extensio ns 3 rd Party Extensio ns Private LAN SharePoint storefront SharePoint Product Catalog SharePoint Search Index Internet

10. CDX Real-time ServiceCDX Async Server

12. Mode 1Mode 2Mode 3 Time Frame Target -->30 Days90 Days180+ Days # Stores30050010,000 Customers1,000,000 4,000,000 SKUs (Products + Variants)3,000,000 10,000,000 Trade Agreements500,000 10,000,000 Assortments1,000,000 7,500,000 Discounts1,000,000 6,000,000 Transactions1,000,000 3,000,000 Lines / transaction1025250 Staff per store1050300

13. Role # of Units Server RolesServer Type Target CPU (Cores) Target Mem (GB) Target Disk (GB) Processor Speed (GHz) Nextgen POS1 Phyiscal Surface RT/ VM Windows 8 1 HQ3SQL: AXDBsPhysical163220481.585 SharepointOnlineStore1SQL: SP+CRT DBsPhysical326420481.585 SharepointOnlineStore3SP: SP App ServerPhysical162420481.2 SharepointOnlineStore7SP: SP App ServerPhysical164820481.2 HQ2AX AOS with 16 threadsVM8323001.2 HQ1HQ-SCVM41210481.2 HQ1TS ServiceVM4123001.2 POS Online1Online DB, POS - SC ClientVM4125001.2 POS Online1POS Client (Smaller machine for Online DB)VM145001.2 POS Offline1POS Client, Offline Sync Service, Offline DBVM4125001.2 Retail Server1CRT DB, RS/SC ClientVM4165001.2 Retail Server1Retail Server WebServiceVM4165001.2 SharepointOnlineStore7SP: SP Frontend Server 2VM81620481.2

17. Retail topology role Virtual machine (VM) or physical Number of VMs for 100 stores configuration Number of processors Processor speed (GHz) Memory size allocated (GB) Disk capacity (GB) AOSVM342.13316300 HQ/Synch ServiceVM242.13316300 POS/Synch ServiceVM682.13332500 Microsoft Dynamics AX client VM122.1338300 Microsoft Dynamics AX database Physical1242.266642,048 Store database (POS online mode) Physical2242.266642,048 Real-time ServiceVM242.13316300 Store database (online mode) VM122.1334200 POS client, offline service, offline database VM112.1332150 Microsoft SharePoint database/Commerce Run-time (CRT) database Physical1242.266642,048 SharePoint application server Physical1242.266642,048 Topology notes In each VM for POS/Synch Service, up to 17 instances are running at any given time. One POS/Synch Service instance is set up per store for 100 stores. One hundred POS/Synch Service instances are distributed among six VMs. In each Synch Service VM, up to five instances are running at any given time. In each VM, eight AOS threads per instance are running at any given time. Two physical machines are hosting 100 store databases. The lab environment uses 10-GB network switches. SQL Server 2008 R2 is used as the database server.