How to install BizTalk Server in a windows cluster to achieve high availability (HA) – A Summary
This post is a wrapper post of several individual post. If you read them all together, you will learn how to install a clustered BizTalk group to achieve high availability in your environment.
List of posts to read – How to install BizTalk Server in a windows cluster to achieve high availability (HA)
The posts are listed in a recommended order to read them:
- How to Create a SQL Cluster – A Summary: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/04/15/how-to-create-a-sql-cluster-a-summary/ (Read all the articles listed in this post).
- How to add shared storage to an already created Windows Failover Cluster: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/04/15/add-shared-storage-to-failover-cluster-iscsi-vhdx/.
- About MSDTC: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/04/28/about-msdtc-and-troubleshooting-it/ .
- How to Cluster MSDTC: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/05/01/msdtc-how-to-cluster/.
- AD Groups and Users for BizTalk and SQL: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/05/05/biztalk-ad-groups-and-users/.
- Other settings before installing BizTalk: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/05/19/other-settings-before-installing-biztalk/.
- Install BizTalk 2016 Servers on a Windows Failover Cluster: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/06/10/install-biztalk-2016-servers-on-a-windows-failover-cluster/.
- How to cluster host instances in BizTalk: https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/08/10/how-to-cluster-host-instances-in-biztalk/.
Enjoy!
References
Most of the information in this guide is based on a paper written by Sandro Pereira. I wrote my own guide to cover parts I was missing in the paper: more images, the cluster aspects and how to set up virtual servers on my laptop to be able to test features in BizTalk.
You can find Pereira’s paper here:
- https://www.biztalk360.com/installing-biztalk-server-2016-in-a-basic-multi-computer-environment/ [2019-09-16]
or here: