Supporting Web Farms

Features that help performance, availability & scale

 WebFarm is supported scenario,
but has no UI tooling

 Scripting configuration to:

 push settings out to all machines
in farm
 Push setting out to new nodes

 Get content out with WebDeploy

 Package entire server
 Individual IIS applications
 Script deployment
Initializes the worker process before the first message is received
 Client

Server A Server B

Host A Host B
WF Service WF Service
Instance Instance
(Running) (Running)

Workflow
Management
Service

Lockto
Locked
Host A
Expires
B
 Client A Client B

Workflow Host Workflow Host

A B

Unlocked
Locked
 Defines pattern for time interval
(exponential or linear) between retries
after failing due to instance lock
exception.

How long a host

holds a lock.

Controls the interval

between successive
polls of the instance
store.
Instance Restart
Lock Retry
AutoStart
AppFabric in the Enterprise