The preceding recipes have covered how to prepare and configure servers running Windows Server AppFabric for high availability and scale using a 2+1 design topology with Microsoft NLB.
By adding two application servers, high availability, scalability, and redundancy are introduced as your WCF and WF services are now virtualized via a logical endpoint exposed by the NLB cluster.
In addition to properly configuring your application servers and database server as covered in this chapter, care must be taken to ensure that all applications are synchronized on each host in the cluster, along with any changes to configuration.
Fortunately, the Microsoft Web Deployment tool (also known as Web Deploy) covered in Chapter 4, Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals, and the ability to import the packages it generates to IIS/Windows Server AppFabric in a standard and consistent manner, makes the process of keeping the applications deployed to each application server...