Increased VPN Connection Limit
Many of the recent improvements around SAP Commerce Cloud have been in the management of Commerce Cloud environments. One such improvement is the increase in the number of possible VPN connections. Instead of 10, you can now have up to 20 VPN connections to your system.
Infrastructure Information Review
To simplify the work of system administrators, all environment and service properties are visible on a single Infrastructure page. This page consolidates server infrastructure details (hardware, software, and network) across your subscription, enabling you to manage resources, optimize performance, and estimate costs. You can filter by components/services and service types and export the data as a JSON file to import into the Capacity Unit Estimator.
Create a Data Backup
Beyond better understanding how their Commerce environments are performing, Administrators now also have additional capabilities. Data Backup and Restore now supports Selective Data Backup, enabling you to perform backups of Commerce Databases and Media Storages independently. For more information, please click here.
Hibernate Environments
Hibernation lets you archive inactive environments without deleting their data; reawakening restores them. This is different from terminating/removing, which permanently deletes the environment and its data.
You can manually schedule hibernation; the system prompts for confirmation, and there is a 72-hour grace period during which you can start the process immediately or cancel the scheduled hibernation.
Hibernation time depends on the environment size and complexity; reawakening typically takes under five minutes.
When hibernation begins, components shut down in the following order: Commerce instances are scaled to zero, clusters and databases are switched to serverless (PostgreSQL is paused), and storage disks are detached and downgraded from SSD to standard.
Hibernation status appears on the environment details: None (active), Going to sleep in X days (scheduled), Waking up in X days (scheduled reactivation).
All hibernated environments are locked by default; you can either reawaken them or remove them (including their data). Once reactivated, environments operate as before.
Generating New Passwords
As a Customer System Administrator, you can now also change the current admin credentials of the hcs_admin service for Backoffice and Hybris Administration Console in the Cloud Portal. For more information, see Generating New Passwords.
X-Robots-Tag Response Header
To prevent the possibility of indexing the same content shared across multiple endpoints, we have introduced the X-Robots-Tag header with no index value. It's enabled by default for all new environments. This header blocks Google indexing. To re-enable indexing, delete the X-Robots-Tag header from the affected endpoints in the Cloud Portal.
Customizing Cloud Portal Appearance
To improve interface accessibility and legibility, you can now apply different themes to the interface through the Appearance menu. When you make your selection, the interface updates itself immediately.