What is a Professional 2 SCpbMD 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 a greater number of people network access for content modification.

Much like the Professional topology, the Professional 2 deployment may have issues if there is high xDB activity, because 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 can scale horizontally with additional servers. The reporting role is housed on the CM server, and each CD server has the processing service activated.

Server but this time in the Delivery network. There is an instance of the Transaction service housed on each CD server, with each Sitecore site talking to its own local instance.

ScpbMD can currently only be licensed in a Professional+ or Enterprise Edition topology. If you require a different topology, please inquire via your local Sitecore office.