I setup a VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 (VM1) and configured it to run IIS. I then created another VM in the same region off an image I made from the first (VM2). These two are in their own availability set located in the West US data center.
Assuming I want to share my IIS configuration and website files between the two servers, I need to setup a location to store and access these files regardless of what server is making changes to them or is online at the time.
Attached storage almost provides a solution, but this can only be tied to a single machine at a time. Files can be stored in a separate Blob storage, but I don't know how to get IIS to read and write to it.
Once I do figure out how to share these files in a manner IIS will accept, I have a second problem where I would need a third VM (VM3) in Europe that would need access to this data as well.
Thank you for any assistance anyone can provide!
You would use DFS (Distributed File System) to accomplish this.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753479(v=ws.10).aspx http://blogs.iis.net/rickbarber/archive/2012/12/05/keeping-multiple-iis-7-servers-in-sync-with-shared-configuration.aspx
Thanks. -matt