BizTalk Server: High Availability Survival Guide

BizTalk Server: High Availability Survival Guide

Introduction

A key non-functional requirement for a BizTalk Server deployment can be availability. When you want BizTalk to be able to receive, process and send messages 24x7 you will need to design a deployment that provides high availability. This requires implementing redundancy for each functional component involved in an application integration or business process integration scenario. Running multiple host instances and clustering the BizTalk Server databases high availability can be achieved (separating data from the hosts that process the data). High availability for BizTalk Server means:

  • Separate hosts and run multiple host instances: Different hosts for receiving messages, processing orchestrations, sending messages and tracking completed transactions. BizTalk automatically distributes workload across multiple instances, so clustering hosts is not required. However, hosts running the receive handler for the HTTP, SOAP, and BizTalk Message Queuing (MSMQT) adapters require a load-balancing mechanism such as Network Load Balancing (NLB) to provide high availability.
  • Clustering the BizTalk Server databases: Clustering of BizTalk databases typically consists of two database instances on separate machines configured in an active/passive server cluster configuration. Both sharing a common disk resource (such as a RAID5 SCSI disk array or storage area network) and use Windows Clustering to provide backup redundancy and fault tolerance.

This article will further provide resources to enable you to efficiently plan, deploy and validate a high available BizTalk environment.

MSDN

MDSN is a huge online repository for Microsoft documentation. This should be your primary source for information on BizTalk availability:   

Articles

The following articles provide more information on High Availability for BizTalk:

Blogs

The following blog posts by community provide more background information and experience on High Availability for BizTalk:

Webcasts

The following web casts by community provide more background information on High Availability for BizTalk:


See Also

Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.

Read suggested related topics:


Leave a Comment
  • Please add 4 and 8 and type the answer here:
  • Post
Wiki - Revision Comment List(Revision Comment)
Sort by: Published Date | Most Recent | Most Useful
Comments
  • Maheshkumar S Tiwari edited Revision 24. Comment: Minor formatting around See also

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 23. Comment: Added link MSDN

  • Lex Hegt edited Revision 22. Comment: Minor edit

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 21. Comment: Changed title

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 20. Comment: Minor edit

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 19. Comment: Minor edit

  • Carsten Siemens edited Revision 17. Comment: fixed typo

  • Carsten Siemens edited Revision 15. Comment: typos fixed

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 11. Comment: Added resource link to see also

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 10. Comment: Added resource links

Page 1 of 2 (20 items) 12
Wikis - Comment List
Sort by: Published Date | Most Recent | Most Useful
Posting comments is temporarily disabled until 10:00am PST on Saturday, December 14th. Thank you for your patience.
Comments
  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Original. Comment: Added text to introduction

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 1. Comment: Added text to introduction

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 2. Comment: Added resource links to blogs topic

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 3. Comment: Added resource link to See Also topic

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 4. Comment: Added resource link to blogs

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 5. Comment: Added resource links to Webcasts topic

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 6. Comment: Added resource link

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 7. Comment: Added resource link to article topic

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 8. Comment: Added resources to MSD topic

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 9. Comment: Added resources to MSDN topic

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 10. Comment: Added resource links

  • Steef-Jan Wiggers edited Revision 11. Comment: Added resource link to see also

  • Thanks Steef for such an informative post on BizTalk -High Availability. Everything about BizTalk-High Availability on a single post.  Very nice!!!

  • Thanks

  • Carsten Siemens edited Revision 15. Comment: typos fixed

Page 1 of 2 (24 items) 12