The
new Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 8 has lot of changes from the previous
Sitecore version. There is a need of latest Software and Hardware to run a new
SXP instance. The detailed explanation is available in dev.sitecore.net.
Here is the quick overview of the requirements.
Requirements for Sitecore Experience
Platform:
Internet
Information Services (IIS):
- IIS 8.5
- IIS 8.0
- IIS 7.5
- IIS 7.0
Operating
System (OS):
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) SP1+
- Windows Server 2008 (32/64-bit) SP2+
- Windows Vista (32/64-bit) SP2+ (Business, Ultimate, Enterprise)
- Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit) (Enterprise, Professional, Core)
- Windows 8 (32/64-bit) (Enterprise, Professional, Core)
- Windows 7 (32/64-bit, Home Premium and higher) SP1+ (Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional)
.NET
Framework:
- .NET Framework 4.5
Visual
Studio:
- Visual Studio 2012 or later
Database:
(supports
corresponding express edition)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014
- MongoDB Database 2.6.1 or later (for Sitecore xDB)
Hardware:
- Minimum: 4 core processor (4 threads), 8GB of RAM
- Recommended by Sitecore: 4 core processor (8 threads), 16GB of RAM
