Creating two different instances on one Sitecore Commerce Server

Question

Is it possible to have various Sitecore instances/versions with the same installed Commerce Server?

Answer 1

I believe it can be done.

Below things need to take care:

1. Change commerce databases (Shared and global) name
2. Change commerce related indexes name (Commerce, catalog and customer)
3. Change default port used for commerce roles

For more details please have a look below blog:

https://vipinbankablog.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/install-multiple-sitecore-commerce-instances-on-single-machine/

Hoping this will help you.

Answer 2

No, it's not possible.

Each Sitecore Commerce version must be compatible with Sitecore version based on Sitecore Commerce compatibility tables:

• https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/316437 - shows the Sitecore CMS/XP 8.2 and older versions compatibility with different versions of Sitecore Commerce and Sitecore Commerce Connect.

• https://kb.sitecore.net/articles/804595 - for Sitecore XP 9.0 and Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 releases compatibility information.