Deploying and Managing Microsoft .NET Web Farms

by Bloom, Barry BA

• ISBN13: 9780672320576
• ISBN10: 0672320576
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-15
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

Microsoft .NET Web Farms describes the life cycle of Microsoft .NET e-business applications and the steps an organization will take as they grow their online presence.Detailed descriptions of technology choices an organization makes will save time, effort, and money. In-depth analysis of software technologies used includes Application Center, Network Load Balancing Services (NLBS), Component Load Balancing (CLB), COM+, Firewalls, Cluster Server, useful 3rd party technologies and other key Microsoft .NET components. Finally a hardware roadmap will explore technologies like caching servers, load balancing devices, and others. These hardware and software roadmaps will culminate in a detailed topology of a successful e-business application deployment based on real-world experience.

Author Biography

Barry Bloom (MCP) has worked in the Information Technology field for over five years

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Microsoft .NET: Today and Tomorrow	5	(14)
.NOT: Web Farms the Wrong Way	19	(20)
Scalability and Availability of Web Farms	39	(18)
Planning a Web Farm Network	57	(30)
Using Microsoft Network Load Balancing in a Web Farm	87	(36)
Using Hardware Load Balancing in a Web Farm	123	(22)
Dissecting Web Farm Application Architectures	145	(30)
Designing Web Farm Application Deployment Environments	175	(22)
Using Internet Information Services in a Web Farm	197	(60)
Using Component Services (COM+) in a Web Farm	257	(32)
Introducing Application Center 2000	289	(22)
Deploying Application Center 2000 Web Clusters	311	(44)
Deploying Application Center 2000 COM+ Clusters	355	(28)
Monitoring a Web Farm with Application Center 2000	383	(26)
Performing Common Health Monitor Tasks	409	(48)
Performing Advanced Application Center 2000 Tasks	457	(22)
Introducing Windows Server Clusters	479	(16)
Creating a Windows 2000 Server Cluster	495	(20)
Clustering Application Resources	515	(20)
Architecting Databases for Web Farms	535	(26)
Clustering SQL Server 2000	561	(10)
Maintaining a Cluster	571	(10)
Securing a Web Farm	581	(34)
A Preparing for ASP.NET	615	(4)
B Addressing Custom Code Problems in ASP 3.0	619	(4)
C Hardware Load Balancing Vendors	623	(4)
D Scaling Out SQL Server 2000	627	(2)
E Using the WLBS.EXE Command-Line Interface	629	(4)
F Well Known Certificate Authorities	633	(4)
G Supported IIS 5.0 HTTP Error Responses	637	(4)
H Configuring Shared Disk Technologies	641	(4)
I Application Center Command-Line Reference	645	(24)
Index	669