Biztalk Managemnt

Here is what i can think of:

1. each host can be setup as “trusted” or “non-trusted” authentication mode
2. we can setup specific host for orchestrations, receive ports or send ports

Anon,

There are two approaches for BizTalk Hosts and Host
Instances:

1. If you have multiple machines, you can scale out
   Hosts by creating Host Instances on each machine
   in the BizTalk Group to give redundancy and load balancing to the Hosts. You
   may, for example, have a heavily loaded orchestration and you want to distribute
   the load across all three servers in a BizTalk Group. You would achieve this by
   running the orchestration on host ‘A’ and creating a Host Instance on each
   server in the Group for that Host. This approach also achieves redundancy: if
   server 1 were to fail and go offline, the other two servers will continue to
   process that orchestration.
2. If you have a single machine, you can only have one Host
   Instance per Host (you cannot have two Host Instances with the same name on a
   server), however you can create multiple Hosts and run each part of your
   solution in a separate Host. For example, you could run the receive side of your
   communications on Host_Receive, your workflow (orchestrations) or
   Host_Orchestrations, and send communications on Host_Send. This will distribute
   the load within the single server as each Host Instance runs within a separate
   process, however you will not be able to achieve redundancy. This is a basic
   setup and you may want to go even further – my current customer is using
   individual hosts for each comms channel and a host for each BizTalk Application
   to run Orchestrations.