Hardware prerequisites
Guidelines on selecting the correct hardware for your SDL Tridion Sites implementation. The platform supports basic, single-machine implementations and elaborate, scaled-out implementations, each with different hardware requirements.
- DTAP infrastructure
SDL recommends running multiple instances of SDL Tridion Sites in parallel to manage the development process and clearly separate the project implementation phases and use Content Porter to port data from one SDL Tridion Sites environment to another. Development, Test, Acceptance and Production (DTAP) is the recommended infrastructure for an SDL Tridion Sites implementation. - Hardware acquisition plan
Acquiring hardware is a phased activity: buy hardware that meets minimal prerequisites or higher to acquire the Development and Testing machines; implement the product; and use your implementation to measure which (and how much) hardware to acquire for your Acceptance and Production machines. - Minimal hardware prerequisites for Development and Testing environments
Both for the Development and the Testing environment, SDL recommends a single-machine setup, with the Content Manager, Content Manager database and Presentation Server on the same machine. - Performance variables for Acceptance and Production
The performance of the main areas of your SDL Tridion Sites implementation depends on a large number of performance variables, many of which are determined by your implementation choices. This topic enumerates for each performance area which variables you might measure or examine. - Hard disk size variables for Acceptance and Production environments
Both your Content Manager and Content Delivery database servers need a hard disk that can accommodate the managed content size or published content size, respectively. - Performance measurement for Acceptance and Production
After completing your implementation of SDL Tridion Sites and before going live, measure the performance of the various areas of your implementation in the Acceptance and Production environments to find any performance problems.