Configure ESB on cluster

Question

Hi all

Is there any guidance on configuring ESB toolkit and portal in the clustered environment? the portal installation seems to apply on standalone server where Biztalk and SQL server installed on a single server (I guess, but not sure...). I have 2 clusters each contains 2 servers, one clustered for SQL and one clustered for Biztalk. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

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Answer 1

Dear Matt,

You are having 2 clusters means the SQL Servers are in Active-Passive configuration and the BizTalk servers are network load balanced having Active-Active configuration. The ENTSSO is installed on the SQL servers.

Now if you are using WCF adapters / SOAP adapters only with your ON-RAMPS then no problem. But if you intend to use FTP or MSMQ or POP3 then there is a problem as NLB does not support them.

As far as the ESB Portal is concerned it would be using HTTP or SOAP and hence no problem with Active-Active load balanced BT Server configuration.

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Please mark as answer if this helps you. Thanks and warm regards Ambar Ray EAI Architect - Microsoft Technologies

Answer 2

As requested here is a good resource:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9c697e02-d1bc-4684-8748-28b3a292d5bf

look for the document called: Installing BizTalk Server 2009 in a Multicomputer Environment.docx

Regards,
Matthew

Answer 3

Thanks Matthew

this document does not include ESB installation.

Answer 4

Hi Matt,

Do you want to load balance the ESB Management portal via NLB as well?

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Answer 5

Hi Matt,

You just need to install the toolkit core msi on each of the biztalk machines. If you also want to deploy the management portal on the nlb cluster, some specific changes need to be made in its web.config files.

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Answer 6

Hi

I have failover cluster not nlb. I installed the core already, I need to install management portal. is there any specific changes I need to make?

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