System Requirements

Minimum hardware and software requirements for Commerce Server 11.4 .

Note: Existing Sitecore customers who want to use Commerce Connect and Commerce Server features will need to request an updated license from Sitecore if issued prior to April 1, 2015.

The supported versions of BizTalk Server are 10, 2013 and 2013 R2.

Hardware Requirements

Hardware requirements listed in the following table apply to Commerce Server 11.4.

Table 1. Hardware Requirements
Component Requirement
Computer and processor

Server with processor speed of 2.5 GHz or higher.

Dual processor, 3 GHz or faster recommended
RAM

8 GB for developer or evaluation use

8 GB for production use
Storage NTFS file system-formatted partition with a minimum of 3 GB of free space
Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Service Pack 1

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2

Software Requirements

Software requirements listed in the following table apply to Commerce Server 11.4. Any operating system used must be a 64-bit version.

If you have a previous version of Commerce Server installed on your system, for example, Commerce Server 2009 R2, you must uninstall that version before installing Commerce Server 11.4. It is strongly recommended that Commerce Server is installed on a system that has not previously had a Commerce Server installation.

Note: NOTE: If you already have an existing Sitecore license file, you may want to check with your Sitecore regional offices whether you need to get a new license file to enable features related to Commerce Server.
Table 2. Software Requirements
Component Requirement
Operating System
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with R2 SP1
  • Microsoft Windows 10 (development workstation, non-production environments only)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (development workstation, non-production environments only)
  • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (development workstation, non-production environments only)
Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2
Data Tier, Application Tier and Presentation Tier Servers Operating System One of the following:
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with R2 SP1
Note: Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) must be enabled on data tier and application tier servers. If you are running in an Azure Cloud Service with Azure SQL then you should set the enableTransaction=”false” on the Orders element of your Commerce Server configuration section. MSDTC is not supported in Azure, so setting the enableTransactions attribute to false will stop Commerce Server from trying to use MSDTC.
Note: For Commerce Server Standalone customers using Commerce Foundation, Web Deploy 3.5 is required on the application server hosting the Commerce Foundation. To download the Web Deploy 3.5, go to http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy
Data Tier Server Database One of the following:
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP2
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2
Presentation Tier Server One of the following:
  • Sitecore XP 8.0
  • Other .NET based presentation solutions (CMS, ASP.NET, MVC)
Developer Workstation
  • Visual Studio 2013
  • Visual Studio 2012

Integration with Sitecore

Pre-requisites for Commerce Server 11.4 , are Sitecore 8.0 or later and Sitecore Commerce Connect 8.0

By default, MSDTC support is still enabled in Commerce Server, but you can disable it by adding enableTransactions="false" to the Orders element in your CommerceServer config section. For example, for SCpbCS deployment inside \Website\App_Config|CommerceServerCore.config: <orders honorStatus="true" newOrderStatus="NewOrder" enableTransactions="false"> ... </orders>