Hi,
I would like to have very detailed documentation on how to set up web farm in enterprise scenario which is having Intranet and DMZ zones. We read many articles related to this, (http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/deployment/configuring-server-environments-for-web-deployment/creating-a-server-farm-with-the-web-farm-framework) and after setting up the webfarm we found that, on few secondary web servers the IIS got currupted, and in some cases the web farm stopped working automatically it stopped syncing web content.
Initailly we followed the documentation given at http://www.iis.net/learn/web-hosting/microsoft-web-farm-framework-20-for-iis-7/setting-up-a-server-farm-with-the-web-farm-framework-20-for-iis and build the Farm. The web deployment remote agent service was using port 80. But later we found that, its creating issues with our LB (we are using Citrix Netscalar fro load balancing). The issue we faced was even though we stop IIS on the secondary web server, the corresponding entry in the LB was showing Active and hence few requests were going to the node where IIS is actually stopped, causing the users to get 404 error. Later we found that our LB was listening to port 80 and since the web deployment remote service agent too was using port 80, the LB failed to disable the node upon stopping IIS on that node, as the other service was active,running using port 80.
So we then decided to use another port, but started facing issue, as we didnt added the new port as the firewall exceptions because of the company policy. And afer strugguling much we found the option to sync the content using another port, with Workflow Builder setting within the WFF. But then we found that the WebFarm started currupting IIS on few nodes, and it stopped working correctly in other cases.
So after giving all the details about the issues we faced with WFF, my question is, is it a stable product which can be used reliably? Or is it that we have made some wrong configuration, if so then I would really like to know very very detailed documentation regarding setting up web farm in enterprise scenario which is having both Intranet and Perimeter (DMZ) zone. (by the way, we set up farm on our DMZ using proxy)
Thanks