Selling points for Upgrading from BizTalk Standard to Enterprise

Question

Hi,

I am looking for some 5 good points to convince my management from Standard to enterprise.

 

Can some one share

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cas1980

Answer 1

The first reason would be high availability.  You cannot cluster Standard.  The second reason would be the fact that you are limited to only 5 applications.

Answer 2

when you say you can't cluster Standard do you mean you cannot cluster the BizTalk server?

thanks.

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carlos

Answer 3

Hi Carlos,

This option with a single BizTalk server with a cluster of SQL servers can provide some resilience to the implementation in respect of the databases that BizTalk relies on to operate. The clustering of two SQL servers is possible with the standard edition, but to go beyond this would require the enterprise level edition. While this option does implicate a potential single point of failure at the BizTalk server!

Using a single BizTalk server does not provide for the level of performance tuning that is otherwise available when using more than one BizTalk server (Enterprise) in a cluster.

It should be noted however that if future demand requires increased capacity the standard BizTalk edition is limited to scaling up and will not scale out the number of servers in use. You are also unable to take advantage of multiple message boxes, which would allow you to balance the SQL load in the event of any bottlenecks in this area of the implementation. Any need to scale out the solution would require an upgrade to the enterprise edition of BizTalk.

HTH

Steef-Jan Wiggers

MVP & MCTS BizTalk Server 2010

http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/ | @SteefJan

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