Multi-tenancy
is a principle in software architecture where a single instance of the
application runs on a server (or group of servers) and serves multiple clients
or tenants. Multi-tenant hosting for Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 is available to be
run on both Azure cloud and partner-hosted deployments.
“Multi-tenancy
is all about having a lot of customers running the same application,”
The
multi-tenancy architecture in NAV 2013 R2 consists of a single application
database and multiple data databases. The application database only serves as a
source for metadata and source code,”. “Data is separated in tenant databases.
One NAV Server Tier (NST) can serve one application database and multiple
tenant databases. [On] the other hand the application database and tenant
databases can be opened by multiple servers. They even can sit on different SQL
servers. This makes the model very flexible and scalable.”
