A Large-scale BizTalk Server Configuration

Typical BizTalk Server-based application integration installations will likely involve multiple servers, even though all the necessary software for a simple BizTalk system can be installed on a single server. Consider the scenario where an organization wants to take advantage of Application Center for BizTalk Server deployment and clustering and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) for BizTalk Server management.

In this scenario, BizTalk Server 2002 and Application Center 2000 are installed on all machines to create a BizTalk Server cluster.

Both BizTalk Server and MOM need access to SQL Server to manage their respective databases. Since both databases could conceivably grow quite large, it is appropriate to keep SQL Server on its own server, and potentially cluster these servers using Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server-based clustering.

MOM will likely be used for organization-wide management, not just for BizTalk Server (although managing BizTalk Server might help justify the use of MOM). Consequently, organizations will typically have one or more dedicated servers for MOM, rather than installing it on a machine with BizTalk Server.