i want to confirm from the group about the best practice to move a application from one host to another .

let say i have a Application which has all location running on HostA and i want to move all location to HostB.

kindly suggest the steps needs to follow in Production

Hi Mohit,

You need to follow below steps:

1 Create a new host.

2 Create one host instance for the host.

3 Create receive and send handlers for each of the adapters used by the application.

4 Stop receive ports and wait until all running instances have finished processing.

5 Stop and unenlist the orchestrations.

6 Update all orchestrations to run on the new host.

7 Update all send ports to run on the new send handler for this host.

8 Update all receive locations to run on the new receive handler for this host.

9 Enlist and start orchestrations and start all receive locations and send ports.

Refer: Configure BizTalk hosts per Application

Rachit

So, keep in mind there is no 'best practice' for moving an app since there's only one way to do it.  There are guidelines for how to spread you app across different hosts.

Basically, you just change the Send Port Host, Receive Location Receive Handler and Send Port Send Handler to the new Host and restart.  That's it.

If you are creating new Hosts and Instances, you also have to add the appropriate Adapter Handlers before the new Host will appear on the Receive or Send Handler list.