WSV 304 – Deploying and Managing Scalable Web Server Farms with IIS7 – Faith Allington

My focus here is on replication of webs between servers.

Tools for Web Farms

Creating a Simple Web Farm – using Shared Config

Under the management section of the UI.  Export the configuration of the settings of your server to an area of an UNC share.  Read at startup.  Does not replicate content. 

• Simple redirection to a UNC share – consolidate

Web Deployment Tool – Synchronizes web servers, IIS, content, SSL certs, GAC and more.  Not integrated into SharePoint.  Not automated (yet) like Application Center.  Could create scheduled tasks to run the command line.

• msdeply – sync between source and target . 

Application Request Router – ships out of band - eleasrically scale your capacity ; intelligently route traffic in your farm

• Extending the Web Farm – Creating a server farm will optionally create an URL redirect rule.  Seven options for load balancing.  Can take a server offline gracefully, immediately, or disallow new connections.  You can create a health test so that the server could be taken offline if it was deemed to be unhealthy.

Scaling the Web Farm

Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta

 

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