Project Server High Availability

[Kamil Ammary]

Hi,

I have install Project Server 2007 with WSS 3.0 in a standalone environment
and everything is working fine.

Currently I need to add another Project server 2007 to the WSS 3.0 farm in
order to accomplish High Availability (no single point of fail) between the
two servers.

My environment is as follows:
1. Server A: project Server 2007 with WSS 3.0
2. Server B: cluster SQL 2005 (2 servers)
3. New Server C: Project Server 2007

I have installed Project Server 2007 on Server C as complete installation
and started the "Project Application Service" and "Windows SharePoint
Services Web Application" services in both server A and C.

The problem is the following:
* If I stop the “Project Application Service†service in either of servers,
I still can access the PWA site.
* when I shutdown Server C, I still can access PWA
* when I shutdown Server A, I can’t access the PWA Site (which is the
problem that I have in order to accomplish High Availability and NO single
point of failure)

Thanks for your support

 

[Sander]

Hi Kamil,

I am working on a similar situation and have had some thoughts about your
configuration:
As you started with one server, the Site collection of PWa only exists on
your server A, which explains when you shut it down, it is not available.

so what you need, is that server A and C will be seen as one webserver, thus
you need a loadbalancer to be able to get this. With this loadbalancer you
will get one virtual IP adress that will be used to access you 'virtual'
webserver and the loadbalancer will redirect to the available server(s). This
then also lets you shutdown (or lose) one server to have the application
still working.
I'm still figuring out how a sharepoint webapplication should be created and
how pwa should be provisioned to get the whole thing working, so I cannot get
you to the details for full configuration. But maybe I have helped you a
little in the right direction.

regards
Sander