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Stand-alone instances running from a clustered environment
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| Steve Metz 2005-10-05, 9:01 pm |
| Hello,
We have two Win2k boxes which are clustered for reasons totally unrelated to
Biztalk. We're trying to Biztalk from each of the physical nodes, not from
the cluster, and we are noticing that the service will only start on the node
which owns the MSDTC cluster resource. Is there a way around this?
Thanks,
Steve Metz
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| Chris Cichocki 2005-10-24, 10:32 am |
| BizTalk depends on the MSDTC service to be running on the box in order to
commit transactions to the databases. If you have MSDTC set up as a cluster
resource, it's probably only running on the active node - meaning the
inactive node will not be able to support BizTalk.
The "BizTalk Server 2004 Technical Guide for High Availability" says that
you can set up BizTalk on cluster nodes, so long as it is set up as a
non-clustered resource. Here's an exerpt from the document:
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We recommend separating the Microsoft® BizTalk® Server 2004 runtime
resources (host instances) from the database resources, and providing high
availability for these resources separately. For example, you might use two
computers for a database server cluster and two BizTalk Server computers for
the host instances.
However, if BizTalk Server is running on the same computer as a resource
that has to be clustered (for example, Windows Message Queuing or a custom
adapter), or if hardware constraints force you to install BizTalk Server on
the same computers as your Microsoft SQL Server™ cluster, you cannot
configure BizTalk Server as a cluster resource in a server cluster. You must
install BizTalk Server as a stand-alone resource on each cluster node.
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Chris
"Steve Metz" wrote:
> Hello,
> We have two Win2k boxes which are clustered for reasons totally unrelated to
> Biztalk. We're trying to Biztalk from each of the physical nodes, not from
> the cluster, and we are noticing that the service will only start on the node
> which owns the MSDTC cluster resource. Is there a way around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Metz
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