Team Foundation - what data "lives" on the App Tier machine?
The subject says it all - Exactly what data (if any) lives on the App Tier machine?
Obviously source control and work items live on the data tier. Formerly, the database used by Sharepoint lived on the app tier, but with Beta 3 that's been remedied.
Does any data live on the app tier, or is it now strictly a functional layer with no persistent storage?
The reason I'm asking is for recoverability - if the App Tier machine goes down, can I just point another App Tier at the data tier and have everything work, or will I have lost something important?
Now that we put the Windows SharePoint Services data in the same SQL Server as the rest of the Team Foundation data, none.
We do support having a warm stand-by Team Foundation Server application tier computer. There will be more how-to information for set up and configuration to support this in forthcoming doc releases.
does that include support for active failover via a hardware load balancing device as well?
I guess what I'm getting at is, can you have multiple independant app tier servers connected to the same data tier machine?
In V1 there can only be 1 active AT talking to a DT. As others have mentioned there is a way to have a stand-by AT available, but it can't accept requests.
- marc
Marc Kuperstein [MSFT]
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