Cloud computing 3702
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This document provides an overview of scaling DotNetNuke in the cloud. It discusses infrastructure as a service models and configuring DotNetNuke for highly available, load balanced environments. Specific topics covered include setting up availability zones, load balancers, configuring web servers uniformly, replicating files, database mirroring, caching, and scheduling tasks. References are provided for additional resources on topics like shared configuration, distributed file system replication, and setting up application request routing.
Cloud computing 3702
- 1. Scaling DotNetNuke In The Cloud
- 2. Who Is This Guy? I get to work with an awesome team (though I never get out in the sun it seems)
- 3. Presentation Overview I’ll cover infrastructure setup and application configuration of DotNetNuke in a elastic scalable cloud hosting environment. • Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) Focused • Professional Edition & Enterprise Edition Focus • Platform Agnostic (yes Azure & Amazon included)
- 4. DNN Cloud Vs. Chicken Soup • Did you know, on allrecipes.com there’s over 2400 different recipes to make chicken soup. • In the same context, there’s more than one way to deploy DNN in the Cloud. This is ours. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/catherines-spicy-chicken-soup/detail.aspx
- 5. DotNetNuke – CMS built for the cloud • Robust caching provider for distributed deployment • Customizable performance settings • Quickly configured for load balanced environments • The DNN Team has always been aligned closely with Microsoft and the approach to the cloud is no different
- 6. Why The Cloud? • COST – Thanks to virtualization everyone should consider a HA clustered environment • Scale Up / Out – Ability to scale your workloads • Pay Per Use – Pay for what you need, when you need it • On Demand – Control your environment as needed • Increased Security – Datacenters no closets • Increased Scale – Compute, Bandwidth, Etc (obligatory cloud presentation content please bear with me. It’ll get better.)
- 7. A Cloud Example – Scale & Security
- 8. Why IAAS Over PAAS (yes, I’m biased) • Avoidplatform & vendor lock in • Greater control over your deployment • Granular Security Settings • Controlled Scaling • Granular Scale Up & Scale Down Scenarios • Proven scalability and reliability • Greater compatibility with existing modules
- 9. Our Highly Available Infrastructure Cluster Networking Tier Web Servers Tier Database Tier
- 10. Highly Available Infrastructure (Azure) Create an availability set and that ensures each machine in that set is in a separate fault domain.
- 11. High Availability Infrastructure (Amazon) Elastic Load Balancer Availability Zone A Availability Zone B Amazon uses Availability Zones and elastic load balancers to balance traffic between them.
- 12. Configuring Webservers Here’s a few tips to speed it along.
- 13. Configuring Webservers Use Microsoft Web Platform Installer Selecting “IIS Recommended Configuration” (http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform)
- 14. Configuring Webservers Keep a uniform configuration There’s a number of commercial control panels, a personal favorite is websitepanel.net
- 15. Configuring Webservers Leverage IIS Shared Config mode With a few simple steps you can use the same IIS configuration across multiple web servers, this includes SSL certificates.
- 16. File Replication for Shared Config/Data Easiest Solution is DFS Replication Then Configure Replication in DFS Management. See Resources for DFS-R guidance. (sorry, I only have an hour)
- 17. Load Balancer Setup Application Request Routing (ARR) is a great option. Things to watch out for or to do: • Caching of AXD files (set an exclusion) • Persistant Sessions / Server Affinity / Sticky Sessions • Replication not working correctly. • Application Pool Recycling • Stale Cache when updating images, css, etc • Recommend offloading SSL • Recommend offloading compression of static content
- 18. Database Server Clustering/Mirroring Most sites perform fine with one database server but for true HA you’ll want a second. It’s straightforward but check the resources for links and guidance.
- 19. Overwhelmed? Sound Complicated? Good News! Time SameAzure Web Sites consuming? Windows Technology There’s even painful? Maybe an easier way! Hosted by AppliedI.net Ok, you can host it too.. http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/services.aspx
- 20. DotNetNuke Web Farm Configuration Add web server aliases DotNetNuke > Admin > Site Settings (I prefer internal IP Addresses for each site.)
- 21. DotNetNuke Web Farm Configuration Assign Unique URLs to each web server DotNetNuke > Host > Professional Features > Manage Web Servers
- 22. Configuring Farm Caching Adjust Page & Module Caching to Memory DotNetNuke > Host > Host Settings > Performance Settings
- 23. Configuring Farm Caching Manage Cache Settings on Pages & Modules DotNetNuke > Page/Module > Page Settings > Cache Settings If you use memory caching everywhere you can disable two scheduled tasks: • Purge Module Cache • Purge Output Cache This will reduce disk I/O greatly!
- 24. Configuring Scheduled Tasks Scheduled Tasks may run on one server or all servers. It depends on the scheduled task at hand. Below are the Purge tasks Purge Users Online - this task is required only if Users Online module is in use on the site; otherwise you can disable it. Purge Log Buffer - this task should be enabled and should run frequently enough to purge all event from memory to database. PurgeCache-This task purges expired items from the database entity cache. There are two standard providers FileCachingProvider, and WebRequestCachingProvider. File – All cache files more than 2 hours old that no longer have any keys in memory will be deleted by this task. This task should be on when File based caching is in use, it only needs to run on 1 web server in a web farm. WebRequest – Cache item lifetime is managed by the ASP.Net web cache. The PurgeCache task has no effect on WebRequest caching and does not need to run when WebRequest caching is in use. PurgeModuleCache: This task purges items from the module cache. There are 3 standard providers File, Database, Memory. Each module in the system may have different settings, it is best to always run this task. It only needs to run on 1 web server in a web farm to be sure that any cache that exists will be purged. File – All cache files with an expiry date that has passed will be deleted. Database – All ModuleCache records with an expiration date that has passed will be deleted. Memory – Cache item lifetime is managed by the ASP.Net web cache. The Purge Module cache is not required as this task has no effect on Memory caching. Purge Output Cache: This task purges items from the page output cache. There are 3 standard providers File, Database, Memory. Each page in the system may have different settings, it is best to always run this task. It only needs to run on 1 web server in a web farm to be sure that any cache that exists will be purged. File – All cache files with an expiry date that has passed will be deleted. Database – All ModuleCache records with an expiration date that has passed will be deleted. Memory – Cache item lifetime is managed by the ASP.Net web cache. The Purge Output cache is not required as this task has no effect on Memory caching
- 25. Configuring Scheduled Tasks When using the File based cache provider (Host > Host Settings > Performance Settings) Core Tasks That Should Run on All Servers • Purge Module Cache • Purge Cache • Purge Log Buffer • Purge Output Cache • Purge Users Online
- 26. Configuring Scheduled Tasks When using the Memory based cache provider (Host > Host Settings > Performance Settings) Core Tasks That Should Run on All Servers • Purge Log Buffer • Purge Users Online
- 27. Configuring Scheduled Tasks Core Tasks That Should Run on ONE Server • Purge Site Log • Purge Schedule History • Search Engine Scheduler or Search Crawler • Send Forum Emails (from forum module) • Cleanup Forum Email History (from forum module) • Event Notification (from core event module) • Messaging Dispatch The frequency of any task depends on your particular site needs.
- 28. Configuring Search • CE includes Search Engine Scheduler • PE includes Search Engine Scheduler & Search Crawler. NOTE: You only need one search module and the Search Crawler will crawl all content including module content.
- 29. References & Thank Yous • Jaspreet Bhatia – who helped guide me on how to setup scheduled tasks • “DotNetNuke for the System Administrator” PDF • “DotNetNuke 6.2.3 SuperUser Manual” PDF • Mitchel Sellers, IowaComputerGurus, Inc • http://www.iis.net • http://technet.microsoft.com • http://www.youtube.com
- 30. References & Thank Yous (cont’d) ARR Setup Details • http://learn.iis.net/tags/ARR/default.aspx Database Mirroring • http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2009/04/02/sql- server-2008-database-mirroring.aspx • http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL582F622A572D6286&f eature=plcp Shared Config/Shared Storage • http://www.iis.net/learn/manage/managing-your-configuration- settings/shared-configuration_264 Setting up DFS-R • http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/library/cc732863(v=ws.10).aspx
- 32. Thank You • Jess Coburn, CEO Applied Innovations • jcoburn@appliedi.net • www.appliedi.net
Editor's Notes
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- #9: Avoid Platform & Vendor lock-inMaintain greater levels of control over your deployment- Granular Security
- #10: In our environment we build self contained clusters and you deploy your application there. In Amazon EC2 you would do the same thing but build this out in Availability Zones. In Azure Virtual Servers you would do this again but build it out in “Cloud Services”
- #16: Things to watch out for:PHP Configuration changes would need to be customized.NET will require consistent machine keys so you’ll want to use a common machine key in the server’s .net configurationWatch out for website logging on multiple servers using the same logging folder and creating file clashesOf course before all of this you’ll want to enable DFS replication or use a Network File Share.