What is a Professional 2 SCpbCS deployment?

The Professional 2 deployment removes the independent CM server and merges it with the CD servers in the delivery network. If you have content that rarely changes, this role may meet your needs.

There are risks with this topology, including that there is no environment to test changes, and if you are only using one Commerce Server site, any changes made in master site will be immediately available in the web site. There are also potential security risks to the delivery network, because you need to allow access to a greater number of people for content modification.

Much like the Professional topology, the Professional 2 deployment may have issues if there is a high level of xDB activity, as the processing service may start to consume too much CPU as it reduces gathered data. If the load on the content delivery servers becomes an issue, you could always scale horizontally with additional servers. The reporting role is housed on the CM server, and each CD server has the processing service activated.

SCpbCS can currently only be licensed in an Enterprise Edition topology. If you require a different topology, please inquire via your local Sitecore office.