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JonSidnell_ClusterUK
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Dec 14, 2021

MultiSubnetFailover for BizTalk 2020

Hi,   We're implementing an HA installation of BizTalk Server 2020 on Azure with Always On Availability Group for SQL Server. We are trying to work out whether we need to use a Load Balancer in fro...
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NiklasE
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Apr 28, 2022
BizTalk currently does not use this option. Personally for the quickest (reduce locks as well) and most highly available I would recommend SQL Failover Cluster Instance (FCI), classic Active/Passive cluster. SQL FCI only use one shared storage which is faster than having to wait for SQL AO AG primary and secondary nodes to do the sync operation (CPU and network overhead). In Azure you can use the newer Azure Shared Disk as shared storage for SQL FCI and MSDTC.