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Preparing the Disaster Recovery BizTalk Servers

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Install BizTalk Server run-time servers at the disaster recovery site. Configure these BizTalk Server run-time servers using the BizTalk Configuration Wizard to join them to the production BizTalk group. When configuring the BizTalk Server run-time servers at the disaster recovery site (including the disaster recovery Enterprise Single Sign-On Master Secret server) make sure to:

  • Select No to the question “Is this the master secret server?”

  • Select Join to the question “Do you want to create or join a BizTalk Server group?”

    After configuring the BizTalk Server run-time disaster recovery servers, create BizTalk host instances on the disaster recovery site that correspond to the production site host instances, but do not start these host instances. For example, if the production site has three Hosts Send, Receive, and Orchestration with instances on server1, server2, and server3, create three corresponding host instances on DRserver1, DRserver2, DRserver3.

Note

All BizTalk Server-related Windows services such as the BizTalk Host Instance and Rules Engine Service at the disaster recovery site should be set to “disabled” in the Services Manager to prevent the disaster recovery site from performing any processing.

You can install and configure a different number of BizTalk Server run-time servers in the disaster recovery site than are running in production. Use caution when taking this approach however, so as to avoid overloading the servers in the disaster recovery site if a disaster recovery event occurs. Once the BizTalk group as represented by the set of databases is fully restored, and all required system changes are performed for the BizTalk group, scripts can be run to join the BizTalk Server run-time servers to the BizTalk group.