System requirements
This section describes the system requirements for a Sitecore XC 9.2 hosting environment.
You need a Braintree sandbox account to enable web payment functionality through the Commerce Engine. Follow the instructions on the Braintree website to set up an account, and note the MerchantID, Public Key and Private Key information. You need to specify the values for those parameters in the Sitecore XC deployment script.
Hardware requirements
The minimum hardware configuration requirements for running a single Sitecore XC installation are:
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4 core processor
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16 GB of RAM
The recommended hardware requirements for running the software on a single computer. For more information about running Sitecore XC on different kinds of hardware, consult your Sitecore partner or technical sales representative.
Hosting environment requirements
The following table lists the software requirements for Sitecore XC 9.2 hosting environment.
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Operating system |
Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows 10 Professional (64-bit) |
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.NET Framework |
.NET Framework 4.7.1 Developer Pack (including available updates) ASP.NET MVC 5.2 or later ASP.NET Core 2.1 .NET Core Windows Server Hosting 2.1.3 or later versions of 2.1 OData 7.2.0 |
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Database |
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2 Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Microsoft Azure SQL Redis data store Note Sitecore recommends using Redis for Linux for production installations. The version for Windows should only be used for development or non-production single machine deployments. |
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Web server |
IIS 10.0 FC: (XPO 9.2) Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6 URL Rewriter |
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Development |
Visual Studio 2017 + latest updates Visual Studio 2017 Tooling .NET Core 2.1.7 Windows Hosting module MSBuild Microsoft Visual Studio Web targets (available from Nuget) Git client |
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Deployment |
PowerShell 5.1 or later |
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Runtime |
.Net Core Runtime 2.1. Node.js OData Connected Service (available from Visual Studio Marketplace) |
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Search indexing |
Solr 7.5 |
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Sitecore software |
Sitecore Experience Platform 9.2 (available on dev.sitecore.net) Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 1.9.0 (available on dev.sitecore.net) Sitecore PowerShell Extensions 5.0 for Sitecore 9.2 (available with SXA dowloads on dev.sitecore.net) Note Sitecore SXA and Sitecore PowerShell Extensions are installed when you run the Sitecore Experience Commerce deployment script, as part of the XC installation process. |
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Web browsers |
Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer 11 Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Apple Safari |