In this chapter, we will cover:
Creating an initial base configuration
Adding and removing servers from the farm
Application deployment on the farm
Configuration and management on the farm
Automating deployment with scripts
Windows Server AppFabric was designed to support a variety of customer scenarios, ranging from small shops with a handful of developers to larger, more sophisticated environments that require support for scalable and highly available hosting and management of mission critical composite applications and services.
While designing for high availability could fill several chapters of this book, a good starting point is to demonstrate an approach for scaling Windows Server AppFabric with Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB). NLB is a capability that is battle proven since its release with Windows NT 4.0 and provides a relatively simple way to scale Windows Server AppFabric.