It has been possible on our existing Alteon LB's that are now out of support to forward all traffic to Server 1 but failover to Server 2 if Server 1 is no longer available. Can this Active : Passive style setup be configured in ARR? i.e. Use Healthcheck Failover functionality but have no classic load balancing in place?
Scenario - We have a small number of applications that make amendments to site configuration/file content within the sites own structure. Although we would like to run these sites in a high availability setup we would like to have only one server accessed at any one time. DFS Replication will be used to mirror amendments to Server 1's config/files over to Server 2 in realtime. However, If Server 1 goes down then the LB Solution would forward all traffic to Server 2 which is running on a Mirrored copy of the files. If users were accessing both Server 1 and Server 2 in a classic round robin LB setup then config and file changes could be getting made to both servers.