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 as well as guidance for deploying applications to a Windows Server AppFabric farm.
When managing a Windows Server AppFabric farm environment, it is important that each server in the farm uses the standalone SQL Server database server for monitoring and persistence, which ensures that the application servers are allocated to do what they do best, leaving the persistence and monitoring chores to the dedicated SQL instance. This ensures that all WF instances are managed in one logical location and that you can get full visibility to all metrics and tracked events for all servers in the farm from any server in the farm.
In this recipe, we'll look at how to ensure that each server's persistence and monitoring store is configured correctly and walk through the AppFabric Dashboard and Tracked...