Scaling Server Hardware for Performance

You have already seen how to divide the labor of a BizTalk installation among multiple SQL Server and multiple BizTalk Server machines. This section describes the options for scaling the hardware of individual servers and the network that connects them. “Monitoring BizTalk Server for Performance,” later in this chapter, explains how to monitor the actual performance realized and modify the workload division and server hardware to eliminate any remaining bottlenecks.

Scaling Server Processors

Both BizTalk Server and SQL Server support multiprocessing, so the performance of both can benefit from including multiple fast processors in your system design. However, counting both hardware costs and per-processor ...

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