Prerequisites for WebSphere Commerce and ICP


WebSphere Commerce prerequisites

Minimum hardware requirements...

on ICP WebSphere Commerce application requirements
Number of VMs / Hosts >=1

High availability for the application cluster, use >=2.

Core 16 or more
RAM (GB) 32 or more
Disk space (GB) >=1000
CPU (GHz) >=2.4

The minimum hardware specifications listed in the table are for WebSphere Commerce, and do not include the IBM Cloud Private system requirements. For information about performance tuning, see Docker performance tuning.


IBM Cloud Private prerequisites

Network prerequisites

Network traffic must be distributed through proxy, which includes external requests and inter-cluster communication. To avoid bottlenecks, deploy the appropriate number of proxy nodes for the environment. Deploy these proxy nodes separately; do not deploy the proxy nodes with master nodes. If possible, keep operation and maintenance traffic separate from user traffic.


WebSphere Commerce and ICP assemblies

We can download the following software from Passport Advantage. Search for the eAssembly identifier located at the top of the tables (CX#XXXX) to list all parts of the eAssembly. Alternatively, we can also use the values in the Part number column of the table to search and download a specific part. Use the values in the Checksum column to verify that the eAssembly parts were not corrupted during the download process.

(Enterprise) (CJ4S3ML) HCL Commerce Enterprise for IBM Cloud Private V9.0.1.1 for Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly

Part number Description File name MD5 Checksum value
CNYF7ML HCL Commerce Enterprise for IBM Cloud Private V9.0.1.1 WC_ICP_9011_Ent.tgz 2d0af2c5f92f1e4857eb472f4ed8cfbc

Note: WebSphere Commerce Developer can be downloaded from IBM Fix Central.

(Professional) (CJ4S4ML) HCL Commerce Professional for IBM Cloud Private V9.0.1 for Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly

Part number Description File name MD5 Checksum value
CNYF8ML HCL Commerce Developer Enterprise & Developer Professional V9.0.1.1 WC_ICP_9011_Pro.tgz f9ebed486ad1b3715fb8c1051b36fdbe

Note: WebSphere Commerce Developer can be downloaded from IBM Fix Central.


See

WebSphere Commerce on IBM Cloud Private