Scaling options for Managed Cloud PaaS

Version: 10.4

This topic describes the default settings applied to each Managed Cloud tier, and the options for scaling App services, SQL Elastic Pool, and Solr search.

Scale an App service

All app services in Sitecore Managed Cloud are hosted with a dedicated App Service plan. For example, if you deploy your Content Delivery (CD) and Content Management (CM) servers to Azure, this means both the CD and CM servers will each have one App Service plan plus one App Service.

There are two scaling options available on the Azure portal for an App Service plan:

  • Scale up (an App Service plan) – you can scale your price plan performance level up or down on demand, this includes the number of CPU Cores, RAM, storage, number of slots, and more.

  • Scale out (an App Service plan) – you can manually increase your number of instances (additional computers), or enable autoscaling, depending on CPU load, or based on your own performance rules.

    Note

    Scale out is not supported for CM.

Scale SQL Elastic Pool

SQL vCore Elastic Pools on Azure are used to manage Sitecore databases in Managed Cloud, to provide consistent and predictable performance while leveraging the Azure cloud's robustness and security. These pools provide the flexibility to allocate and scale resources dynamically according to your specific workload needs.

Production

The table below lists the settings that Sitecore applies to each of the PaaS tiers that are available for production environments.

SETTING

Single

xSmall

Small

Medium

Large

Extra Large

2x Large

3x Large

XM Pool vCore

-

-

XM Only 2

2

2

4

4

4

XM Min

-

-

XM Only 0.25

0.25

0.25

0.5

0.5

0.5

XM Max

-

-

XM Only 1

1

1

2

2

2

XM Allocated Storage

-

-

XM Only 256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

XP Pool vCore

-

-

-

-

2

4

6

6

XP Min

-

-

-

-

0

0

0

0

XP Max

-

-

-

-

1

2

4

4

XP Allocated Storage

-

-

-

-

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

Shard Pool vCore

-

-

-

-

2

4

6

6

Shard Min

-

-

-

-

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

Shard Max

-

-

-

-

1

2

4

4

Shard Allocated Storage

-

-

-

-

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

General Pool vCore

-

-

2

-

-

-

-

-

General Pool Min

-

-

0

-

-

-

-

-

General Pool Max

-

-

0.5

-

-

-

-

-

General Pool Allocated Storage

-

-

256GB

-

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool vCore

-

-

-

2

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool Min

-

-

-

0

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool Max

-

-

-

0.5

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool Allocated Storage

-

-

-

256GB

-

-

-

-

Non-production

The table below states the settings that Sitecore applies to each of the PaaS tiers that are available for non-production environments.

SETTING

Single

xSmall

Small

Medium

Large

Extra Large

2x Large

3x Large

XM Pool vCore

XM Only 2

XM Only 2

XM Only 2

2

2

2

2

2

XM Min

XM Only 0.25

XM Only 0.25

XM Only 0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

XM Max

XM Only 1

XM Only 1

XM Only 1

1

1

2

2

2

XM Allocated Storage

XM Only 256GB

XM Only 256GB

XM Only 256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

XP Pool vCore

-

-

-

-

2

2

2

2

XP Min

-

-

-

-

0

0

0

0

XP Max

-

-

-

-

1

1

1

1

XP Allocated Storage

-

-

-

-

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

Shard Pool vCore

-

-

-

-

2

2

2

2

Shard Min

-

-

-

-

0.25

0.25

0.25

0.25

Shard Max

-

-

-

-

1

1

1

1

Shard Allocated Storage

-

-

-

-

256GB

256GB

256GB

256GB

General Pool vCore

2

2

2

-

-

-

-

-

General Pool Min

0

0

0

-

-

-

-

-

General Pool Max

0.5

0.5

0.5

-

-

-

-

-

General Pool Allocated Storage

256GB

256GB

256GB

-

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool vCore

-

-

-

2

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool Min

-

-

-

0

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool Max

-

-

-

0.5

-

-

-

-

Analytics Pool Allocated Storage

-

-

-

256GB

-

-

-

-

As the volume of data or the number of users accessing the search system increases, it's necessary to scale Solr to maintain optimal performance and responsiveness. The table below shows the default Solr tiers used for the different Managed Cloud tiers. If necessary, you can request for the default Solr tier to be scaled up to meet additional Solr requests.

SERVICE

Single

Non-prod

Extra Small

Small

Medium

Large

Extra Large

2x Large

3x Large

Sitecore XP (Prod)

-

-

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Sitecore XP (Non-prod)

Non-prod single tier: Single

Non-prod single tier: Single

Non-prod cluster tier: Small

Non-prod cluster tier: Small

Non-prod cluster tier: Small

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Sitecore XP (Disaster Recovery)

-

-

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Sitecore XM (Prod)

-

-

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Sitecore XM (Non-prod)

Non-prod single tier: Single

Non-prod single tier: Single

Non-prod cluster tier: Small

Non-prod cluster tier: Small

Non-prod cluster tier: Small

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Non-prod cluster tier: Medium

Sitecore XM (Disaster Recovery)

-

-

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Small

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Prod cluster tier: Medium

Solr tier properties

The table below describes the storage specifications for each of the Solr tiers. Each tier also includes a request / month limit entitlement. For example, the Medium Solr tier includes 50GB Storage capacity and supports up to a maximum of 10 million requests per month.

Tier

Specification

Production and non-production - max requests per month

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

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