{"id":683,"date":"2011-03-05T02:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T02:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/2011\/03\/05\/web-farm-framework-2-0-for-iis\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T02:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T02:27:26","slug":"web-farm-framework-2-0-for-iis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cesardelatorre\/web-farm-framework-2-0-for-iis\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Farm Framework 2.0 for IIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very interesting stuff for managing scalable web farms based on your own IIS servers, in a better way .<\/p>\n<p>The <em><strong>Microsoft Web Farm Framework<\/strong><\/em> is a free, fully supported, Microsoft product that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers.&#160; It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them.<\/p>\n<p>It supports integration with load balancers, and enables you to automate updates across your servers so that your site\/application is never down or unavailable to customers (it can automatically pull servers one-at-a-time out of the load balancer rotation, update them, and then inject them back into rotation).<\/p>\n<p>You can create a web farm like the following (or many more servers, of course):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ruslany.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WFF_diagram1-400x236.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Underneath it can be relying on the (free) <strong><em>IIS Application Request Routing (ARR)<\/em><\/strong> module,&#160; <strong><em>Microsoft NLB (Network Load Balancing)<\/em><\/strong> or even Hardware load balancers.<\/p>\n<p>See how simple is to create a WebFarm:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ruslany.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WebFarm1.png\" width=\"414\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>&#160;<\/h5>\n<p>For more info see:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.net\/download\/WebFarmFramework\">http:\/\/www.iis.net\/download\/WebFarmFramework<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2010\/09\/08\/introducing-the-microsoft-web-farm-framework.aspx\">Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.net\/download\/WebFarmFramework\">Download the Web Farm Framework V2 Release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learn.iis.net\/page.aspx\/905\/microsoft-web-farm-framework-20-for-iis-7\/\">Read the Web Farm Framework 2.0 Documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.iis.net\/1167.aspx\">Web Farm Framework Forum<\/a> (which the team monitors)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aditionally, info about <strong><em>IIS Application Request Routing (ARR)<\/em><\/strong> module and <strong><em>Microsoft NLB (Network Load Balancing)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learn.iis.net\/page.aspx\/511\/achieving-high-availability-and-scalability---arr-and-nlb\/\">http:\/\/learn.iis.net\/page.aspx\/511\/achieving-high-availability-and-scalability&#8212;arr-and-nlb\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very interesting stuff for managing scalable web farms based on your own IIS servers, in a better way . 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