IIS 7 Web Farm High Availability and Redundancy using ARR, Network Load Balance and MySQL

IIS 7 has proven to be a solid web server that can be easy to manage yet powerful at the same time. In this post I wanted to show how easy it can beto set up a redundant load balanced scalable server farm using IIS 7 using Application Request Routing. This isn’t intended to be a step by step guide but more a high level over view of what pieces you’ll need and how to assemble them. The plan is to use 7 Windows 2008 R2 servers to accomplish this. With this configuration up to 3 servers can go down and the farm stay up and operational.

1 x AD Domain Controller
2 x ARR Controllers in NLB
2 x IIS Web servers
2 x MySQL DB Servers

Check out the post to go along with the video on my site:
http://robwillis.info/2013/04/iis-7-web-farm-basics-with-arr-nlb-and-mysql/