Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard – topologies and tiers for Sitecore XP 9.0+

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  • Description

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    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.

  • Experience Management (XM)

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    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
    Content Management server – Azure Web App 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3
    Content Delivery server – Azure Web App 1 x B2 2 x B2 3 x B2 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][2] 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 (SearchStax)
    		 1 x XS
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		  2 x XS
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)    		 2 x S
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		 2 x M
    (4GB RAM, 50GB storage)     		 2 x L
    (8GB RAM, 75GB storage)     		 2 x XL
    (8GB RAM, 75GB storage) 
    Monitoring – Azure App Insights 1 x Basic
    		 1 x Basic 1 x Basic 1 x Basic 1xEnterprise 1xEnterprise
    Session state – RedisCache - 1 x C1 1 x C1 1 x C1 1 x C1 1 x C2

  • Experience Platform (XP)

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    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
    Content Management server – Azure Web App 1 x B3
    		 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3 1 x B3
    Content Delivery server – Azure Web App 1 x B2 2 x B2 3 x B2 4 x S3 8 x S3
    xDB Processing service – Azure Web App
    		 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B2 1 x B2
    xDB Reporting service – Azure Web App
    		 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B2 1 x B2 1 x B2
    Marketing Operations – Azure Web App
    		 1 x S1 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B2 1 x B3 2 x S3
    Marketing Automation reporting – Azure Web App
    xConnect Collection search – Azure Web App
    xConnect Collection – Azure Web App
    		 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B3 2 x S3 4 x S3
    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
    Forms 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][2] 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 (SearchStax)
    		 1 x XS
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		  2 x XS
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)    		 2 x S
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		 2 x M
    (4GB RAM, 50GB storage)     		 2 x L
    (8GB RAM, 75GB storage)     		  2 x XL
    (8GB RAM, 75GB storage)
    Monitoring – Azure App Insights 1 x Basic
    		 1 x Basic 1 x Basic 1 x Basic 1xEnterprise 1xEnterprise
    Session state – RedisCache - 1 x C1 1 x C1 1 x C1 1 x C1 1 x C2

  • Experience Database (XDB)

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    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 B1 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B2 1 x B2
    xDB Reporting service – Azure Web App
    		 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B2 1 x B2 1 x B2
    Marketing Operations – Azure Web App
    		 1 x S1 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B2 1 x B3 2 x S3
    Marketing Automation Reporting – Azure Web App
    xConnect Collection search – Azure Web App
    xConnect Collection – Azure Web App
    		 1 x B1 1 x B1 1 x B3 2 x S3 4 x S3
    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
    Web database – SQL Azure 1 x S0
    		 1 x S1 1 x S1 1 x S1 1 x S2 1 x S3
    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
    Search – Azure Search [1][2] 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 (SearchStax)
    		 1 x XS
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		 2 x XS
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		 2 x S
    (4GB RAM, 32GB storage)     		 2 x M
    (4GB RAM, 50GB storage)     		 2 x L
    (8GB RAM, 75GB storage)     		 2 x XL
    (8GB RAM, 75GB storage) 
    Monitoring – Azure App Insights 1 x Basic
    		 1 x Basic 1 x Basic 1 x Basic 1xEnterprise 1xEnterprise

  • Notes

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    • [1] Azure Search size refers to 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.

Applies to:

CMS 9.0+, Managed Cloud 1+

October 31, 2017
April 11, 2019

Keywords: 

  • Azure,
  • Managed Cloud