Creating New Web and Worker Role Instances for Availability

To improve the availability of your AgilePoint BPMS for Azure solution, you can create multiple instances of your web and worker roles. The most common use is to create multiple instances of the AgilePoint Server role, APSVCWorkerRole.

To create new instances of your web or worker roles, do the following.

Prerequisites

Navigation

  1. Navigate to the Windows Azure home page at www.windowsazure.com.
  2. On the Windows Azure home page, click Manage.
  3. On the Windows Azure Management Portal, click Hosted Services, Storage Accounts & CDN.
  4. Click Hosted Services.

Instructions

  1. In the Hosted Services pane, expand your hosted service.
  2. Click the name of your hosted service in the row where the Type is Deployment.
  3. Click Configure.
  4. Click Edit Current Configuration.
  5. In the node for the role you want, modify the value of the following node to reflect the number of instances you want:
    <Instances count="1"/>
  6. Click OK.
  7. On the warning dialog, click Yes.