Walkthrough: Applying Constraints to a Logical Datacenter
This walkthrough guides you through adding an existing logical datacenter diagram to your solution and applying constraints against the applications that might be hosted in the datacenter modeled on this diagram. In a later walkthrough, you will use this diagram to test deployment by binding applications in your system to hosts in the datacenter.
In this walkthrough, you will complete the following tasks:
Load an existing logical datacenter diagram.
Specify communication and application hosting constraints.
A sample that demonstrates the outcome of this walkthrough is available on the Microsoft Download Center at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=40867.
To open an existing logical datacenter diagram
Navigate to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=40867 and save the eCommercecenter.sln solution to your hard disk.
Add the eCommercecenter.ldd logical datacenter diagram to Catalog.sln. For more information, see How to: Add Logical Datacenter Diagrams to Solutions.
The diagram opens in Logical Datacenter Designer, which is used to create a logical representation of a target datacenter.
This diagram contains three zones (PerimeterNetwork, Intranet, and SecureData). Each of these zones represents different communication boundaries in the datacenter. Web, Windows, and database servers that can host the applications in Catalog.sln are contained in these zones.
Now that you have a representation of the datacenter, you can specify constraints on the communication pathways and hosting relationships within it. For example, you could constrain the HardenedIIS Web server so that it could not host Web service applications.
To specify and configure constraints
Right-click ApplicationServer in the Intranet zone, click Settings and Constraints to view the Setting and Constraints Editor.
Two groups of constraints are provided. The top-level group represents a set of hosting constraints. For example, by selecting ASP.NETWebApplication, you are allowing this logical server to host ASP.NET Web applications. Clearing this check box prevents these applications from being hosted.
Under the top-level hosting constraints is a set of predefined constraints that consolidate common configuration settings. For example, the ASP.NET Security constraint combines settings related to ASP.NET application security.
Ensure the ASP.NETWebApplication constraint box appears selected.
Select the ASP.NET Security constraint box, and then click ASP.NET Security.
In the constraints pane under Allowed Security Modes, ensure that only the Forms box appears selected.
The default constraint for this type of server is Windows.
Select the Requires Impersonation box.
Under Password Format, select the SHA1 box.
Save eCommerceDatacenter.ldd.
Next Steps
You are now ready to bind the applications within the system you created in previous walkthroughs to the datacenter to which you added constraints in this walkthrough. After binding, you can validate the system against the datacenter to determine whether any errors would occur during deployment. To complete this next step, see Walkthrough: Validating an Application System for Deployment.