Hi,

Is it possible to setup biztalk development and test environment on one
physical biztalk server, just like SQL server which is able to run multiple
instances. Can I use multiple biztalk hosts for this purpose. If not, what's
the recommended solution.

Thanks in advance.

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Sheila - each physical machine can only belong to one biztalk "group" at a
time.

Typically people have different physical servers for dev, test and
production.

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Jon Flanders
http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/

"Sheila" <Sheila@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to setup biztalk development and test environment on one
> physical biztalk server, just like SQL server which is able to run
> multiple
> instances. Can I use multiple biztalk hosts for this purpose. If not,
> what's
> the recommended solution.
>
> Thanks in advance.

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Sheila, you can consider using of Virtual Matchines.


"Jon Flanders[MVP]" wrote:

> Sheila - each physical machine can only belong to one biztalk "group" at a
> time.
>
> Typically people have different physical servers for dev, test and
> production.
>
> --
> Jon Flanders
> http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/
>
> "Sheila" <Sheila@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2E8537B-AEB2-4B82-92F2-1947D4655F9A@microsoft.com... 
>
>
>

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Jon and folks.

I have this interesting question from a customer regarding use of Virtual
servers all accross even for prod?

Apart from the licensing costs and fact that host servers become single
point of failure for multiple virtual server instances would you in any ways
recommend that approach?

Are there applications of this that would make sense or should we revert to
good old physical clustered environment with redundant servers?

Any thoughts, links and case studies appreciated.

"Jon Flanders[MVP]" wrote:

> Sheila - each physical machine can only belong to one biztalk "group" at a
> time.
>
> Typically people have different physical servers for dev, test and
> production.
>
> --
> Jon Flanders
> http://www.masteringbiztalk.com/blogs/jon/
>
> "Sheila" <Sheila@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2E8537B-AEB2-4B82-92F2-1947D4655F9A@microsoft.com... 
>
>
>

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