Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard – topologies and tiers for Sitecore XP 9.1


Description

The following table describes 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. Please note that log analytics is also installed as part of monitoring. Sitecore might update the recommended sizes from time to time to ensure the most efficient performance level. For details about specific topology and size applied in a contract, customers can contact their Sitecore sales representatives.

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] 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 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
Messaging database - SQL Azure 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0
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] 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 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
Messaging database – SQL Azure 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0 1 x S0
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] 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

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

Notes