Logical Datacenter Designer
Architects will use the Logical Datacenter Designer to define a logical representation of the target datacenter in which applications will be deployed. This tool allows architects to provide a description of the types of servers (known as logical servers) in the target environment and to record the configurations of the software packages loaded on those servers.
Here are the various Hosts that can be modeled using the Logical Datacenter Designer:
Windows Client
IIS Web Server
Database Server
Generic Server
Zone
Windows Client
Application Constraints
Application type allowed—Microsoft Windows® application, Microsoft Office, or generic
User defined
Logical Server Settings
Operating system type, version, and features
Directories for implementation
Common language runtime (CLR) version
Global assembly cache (GAC) information
Custom
Valid Endpoint Types
Generic Client Endpoint
Generic Server Endpoint
HTTP Client Endpoint
Database Client Endpoint
Applications
Windows application
Office application
Generic application
IIS Web Server
Application Constraints
Application type allowed—Microsoft ASP.NET Web application, external Microsoft BizTalk® Web service, external Web service, or generic
ASP.NET application constraints—membership, security, session state
User defined
Logical Server Settings
IIS Services—capabilities, connection, content, general, limits, logging, metabase, request, settings, version
Application Pools—authentication, COM, general, limits, monitoring, multiple processors, orphan action, rapid fail, request, response, restart
Web Sites—ASP classic, authentication, authorization, caching, CGI, COM, compression, connection, content, general, IIS5 reliability, logging, request, response, restart
Operating system type, version, and features
Directories for implementation
Common language runtime (CLR) version
Global assembly cache (GAC) information
Custom
Valid Endpoint Types
Generic Client Endpoint
Generic Server Endpoint
HTTP Client Endpoint
Web Site Endpoint
Database Client Endpoint
Applications
ASP.NET Web application
External BizTalk Web service
External ASP.NET Web service
Generic application
Database Server
Application Constraints
Application type allowed—external database or generic
Logical Server Settings
Custom
Valid Endpoint Types
Generic Client Endpoint
Generic Server Endpoint
HTTP Client Endpoint
Applications
External database
Generic application
Generic Server
Application Constraints
Application type allowed—external Web service or generic
Logical Server Settings
Custom
Valid Endpoint Types
Generic Client Endpoint
Generic Server Endpoint
HTTP Client Endpoint
Web Site Endpoint
Database Client Endpoint
Applications
External Web service
Generic application
Zone
Zone Containment Constraints
Logical server type allowed—database, generic, IIS Web Server, Windows client, Zone
IIS Web Server constraints—CLR version, directory, IIS settings, operating system type and version
Windows client constraints—CLR version, directory, operating system type and version
User defined
Logical Server Settings
Custom
Valid Endpoint Types
Zone Endpoint—inbound or outbound, database client, database server, HTTP client, Web site, generic
Logical Servers
Windows client
IIS Web Server
Database server
Generic server
Other Zones