19.1. Implementing the Web Farm Framework with ARR

The architecture for WFF with ARR is similar to the ARR architecture you worked with in chapter 14. Some important changes have been made to both the terminology and functionality of the servers in the web farm to accommodate the provisioning and scaling features. In this section you’ll install WFF and configure the control server. Once complete, you’ll designate and configure your primary and secondary servers for the web farm.

The control server, shown in figure 19.1, is the server with the WFF and ARR components. This server is used to create and manage the web farm, perform the load balancing, and provide log and tracing information for the web farm. As in chapter 14, this is the server that ...

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