Appendix C: Best Practices Analyzer for AppFabric 1.1 Caching

The topics in this section explain how to bring Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server Caching into compliance with best practices. To install the AppFabric 1.1 Caching Best Practices Analyzer, Download the Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 Caching BPA Tool.

Best Practices Analyzer and caching rules

The Best Practices Analyzer applies caching rules to identify problems with the AppFabric Caching configuration.

Topics in this section

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: AppFabric Caching Service must be installed

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: AppFabric Cache Administration tools must be available

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: The Caching Service should be installed on a dedicated computer

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: The BPA must be able to access the cache configuration store to retrieve the cache configuration

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: The BPA must be able to connect to all hosts in the cache cluster

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: The memory allocated to cache hosts must not exceed 50% of the available memory on the computer

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: Cache hosts in the cluster must have uniform memory configuration

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: A cache cluster should have more than one cache host

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: At least three cache hosts must be present in the cluster for the High Availability feature to function correctly

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: The cache size configuration should reflect the actual number of cache hosts in the cluster

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: Seed node onloading is recommended for clusters with three or more cache hosts

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: Seed node offloading is recommended for clusters with less than three nodes

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: All cache hosts in the cluster must be up and running

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: SQL Server is the recommended configuration store

• AppFabric 1.1 Caching: Important hotfixes for the Caching Service should be installed

See Also

Other Resources

Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server

  2012-09-12