Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 8: Software and Hardware Requirements

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

Sitecore XP Clients:

Browser:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 10
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
• Mozilla Firefox 17+
• Google Chrome 25+
• Apple Safari 6 for Mac OS (Windows is not supported by Apple)

Silverlight, Adobe Flash 

• for certain applications like xDB, AppCenter. 

Hardware for XP Client:

• Processor: Intel Pentium 4, 2GHz or faster processor.
• RAM: 512 MB minimum, 1GB – recommended.
• TCP/IP connection at 512Kbps or faster to the Sitecore XP host.
• 1024x768 or greater screen resolution required for advanced operations.

More details can be retrieved from dev.sitecore.net.