Description

The following table describes the differences between various Sitecore XP environments for the Sitecore Managed Cloud service as well as related Azure components.

Customers can purchase these configurations under both Production and Non-Production SLAs.

Note: Tiers and topologies are subject to availability. Check the Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard – compatibility tables for the currently supported tiers for provisioning new Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard sets as well as for the Microsoft Azure data center compatibility information. The environment tiers are designed in accordance with Sitecore XP ARM templates with additional changes and clarifications required to deliver Managed Cloud specific service level agreements. Note that Log Analytics is also included through Monitoring.

Experience Management (XM)

	Performance rating
Component	Single	Extra small	Small	Medium	Large	Extra large
Approximate visits per month range	-	0 - 100,000	100,000 - 200,000	200,000 - 1,000,000	1,000,000 - 5,000,000	5,000,000 - 10,000,000
Page views per month	-	500,000	1,000,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Identity Server – Azure Web App	1 x S3 *	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2
Content Management server – Azure Web App		1 x S3	1 x S3	1 x S3	1 x S3	1 x S3
Content Delivery server – Azure Web App		1 x S2	2 x S2	3 x S2	4 x S3	8 x S3
Core database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Master database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Web database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S3
Forms database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S2
Search – Azure Search [1]	1 x S1 (1 RS x 1 P)	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	4 x S1 (2 RS x 2 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)
Search – Solr on SearchStax (Azure)[3][4]	1 x XS	3 x XS	3 x S	3 x M	3 x L	3 x XL
Monitoring – Azure App Insights	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	4 x Enterprise	4 x Enterprise
Session state – RedisCache	-	1 x C1	1 x C1	1 x C1	1 x C1	1 x C2

Experience Platform (XP)

	Performance rating
Component	Single	Extra small	Small	Medium	Large	Extra large
Approximate visits per month range	-	0 - 100,000	100,000 - 200,000	200,000 - 1,000,000	1,000,000 - 5,000,000	5,000,000 - 10,000,000
Page views per month	-	500,000	1,000,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
Identity Server – Azure Web App	1 x S3 *	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2
Content Management server – Azure Web App		1 x S3	1 x S3	1 x S3	1 x S3	1 x S3
Content Delivery server – Azure Web App		1 x S2	2 x S2	3 x S2	4 x S3	8 x S3
xDB Processing service - Azure Web App		1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2
xDB Reporting service – Azure Web App		1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2	1 x S2
Cortex Reporting service – Azure Web App	1 x S1 *	1 x S1 *	1 x S1 *	1 x S2 *	1 x S3 *	2 x S3 *
Marketing Operations – Azure Web App
Marketing Automation reporting – Azure Web App
xConnect Collection search – Azure Web App
Cortex Processing service – Azure Web App		1 x S1 *	1 x S1 *	1 x S3 *	2 x S3 *	4 x S3 *
xConnect Collection – Azure Web App
xConnect Reference data – Azure Web App
Core database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Master database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Web database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S3
Reporting database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2	1 x S3
Pools database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2
Tasks database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1
Cortex processing engine Tasks database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0
Cortex processing engine Storage database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S3	1 x S3
Forms database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S2
EXM database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S2
Marketing Automation database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Reference data database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S3	1 x S3
Shard map management – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0
Shard 0/1 databases – SQL Azure	2 x S0	2 x S0	2 x S1	2 x S2	2 x P1	2 x P2
Search – Azure Search [1]	1 x S1 (1 RS x 1 P)	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	4 x S1 (2 RS x 2 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)
Search – Solr on SearchStax (Azure)[3][4]	1 x XS	3 x XS	3 x S	3 x M	3 x L	3 x XL
Monitoring – Azure App Insights	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	4 x Enterprise	4 x Enterprise
Session state – RedisCache	-	1 x C1	1 x C1	1 x C1	1 x C1	1 x C2
Azure Message Bus - Azure Message Bus	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard

Experience Database (XDB)

	Performance Rating
Component	Single	Extra small	Small	Medium	Large	Extra large
Approximate visits per month range	-	0 - 100,000	100,000 - 200,000	200,000 - 1,000,000	1,000,000 - 5,000,000	5,000,000-10,000,000
Page views per month	-	500,000	1,000,000	5,000,000	10,000,000	50,000,000
xDB Processing service – Azure Web App	1 x S1 *	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2
xDB Reporting service – Azure Web App		1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2	1 x S2
Cortex Reporting service - Azure Web App	1 x S1 *	1 x S1 *	1 x S1 *	1 x S2 *	1 x S3 *	2 x S3 *
Marketing Operations – Azure Web App
Marketing Automation Reporting – Azure Web App
xConnect Collection search – Azure Web App
Cortex Processing service - Azure Web App		1 x S1 *	1 x S1 *	1 x S3 *	2 x S3 *	4 x S3 *
xConnect Collection – Azure Web App
xConnect Reference data – Azure Web App
Core database – SQL Azure	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Master database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Reporting database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S2	1 x S3
Pools database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S2
Tasks database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1
Marketing Automation database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S1
Reference Data database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S2	1 x S3	1 x S3
Shard map management – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0
Shard 0/1 databases – SQL Azure	2 x S0	2 x S0	2 x S1	2 x S2	2 x P1	2 x P2
Cortex processing engine Tasks database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S0
Cortex processing engine Storage database – SQL Azure	1 x S0	1 x S0	1 x S1	1 x S1	1 x S3	1 x S3
Search – Azure Search [1]	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	2 x S1 (2 RS x 1 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)	6 x S1 (2 RS x 3 P)
Search – Solr on SearchStax (Azure) [3][4]	1 x XS	3 x XS	3 x S	3 x M	3 x L	3 x XL
Monitoring – Azure App Insights	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	3 x Basic	4 x Enterprise	4 x Enterprise
Azure Message Bus - Azure Message Bus	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard

* - All services from the left should be deployed on separate web apps

Notes

• [1] Azure Search size refers to a Search Unit (SU), which is the product of replica and partitions used by the Azure Search service (RS X P = SU). At a minimum, every service starts with 1 SU (one replica multiplied by one partition). See search units and SU combinations for more information.
• [2] The size of Azure Search Units for Managed Cloud topologies is double the size of what is defined in the ARM template article. This is due to Microsoft SLA for Azure Search, which requires a minimum of two replicas to guarantee 99.9% availability.
  As a cost saving measure, all customers are initially set up with only 1 partition and then new partitions are added as required. However, from a budgeting point of view, you should expect to increase to the number of partitions listed by the end of the first year.
  The Single sizing is not designed for production usage so it is only set up with 1 Replica Set by default because no SLA should be required.
• [3] The size of Solr instances on SearchStax:
  

  Tier	Specification	Production and Non-Production – Max Requests / Month*
  XS	32 GB storage	1 Million
  S	32 GB storage	2 Million
  M	50 GB storage	10 Million
  L	75 GB storage	20 Million
  XL	75 GB storage	100 Million
  2XL	128 GB storage	100 Million
  3XL	256 GB storage	100 Million

  *- Customers exceeding the monthly entitlement will accrue overages against your contract.
• [4] Solr Support is delivered later for Sitecore XP 9.2 and Sitecore Managed Cloud. Check actual compatibility in the Compatibility Table.