2. Manoj Agarwal
Senior Development Lead
BizTalk Server Product Team
Microsoft India Development Center

3. Objectives
Techniques for optimizing the infrastructure of
the BizTalk Server System
How to increase the throughput and reduce the
latency of the system
How to maximizing return on invested hardware
and software capital

4. Performance Tuning
No Silver Bullet
Testing -> Tuning -> Testing

5. Bottom-up methodology
• Hardware
• Windows
• Network Infrastructure
• SQL Server
• BizTalk Server Databases
• BizTalk Server Applications

6. Hardware Platform Tuning
Apply BIOS, Firmware and Driver updates
Turn off Hyperthreading

7. Windows Tuning
Configure Server
for High network throughput and parallelism
to favor background services
Disk optimization
Defragment Disks
Use stripe sets
File system
Disable creation of short names
Limit the use of file compression or encryption

8. Windows Tuning Contd…
Anti-virus Software
Disable real-time scanning of
SQL Server files
Non-exe file types in BizTalk file-drop locations
Disable network scanning between BizTalk
Server and SQL Server

9. Network Infrastructure Tuning
Buffering (prevent network congestion)
Offloading (remove processing from host CPUs)
Parallelism (subnets)

10. Bottom-up methodology
 Hardware
 Windows
 Network Infrastructure
• SQL Server
• BizTalk Server Databases
• BizTalk Server Applications

11. SQL Server Tuning
Pre-allocation and Parallelism
Isolate transaction and data log files
Split TempDB files across multiple files
Turn on T1118 trace flag

12. BizTalk Database Tuning
Isolate MessageBox with tracking database
Avoid primary messagebox bottleneck
Set MAXDOP to zero on non-messagebox
database servers
Verify the BizTalk Server SQL Agent Jobs are
running
Configure Purging and Archiving of Tracking
Data

13. BizTalk Application Tuning
Message Size
BAM EventStream APIS
Host configuration
Orchestrations

14. Message Size
Large message fragment size
Impact on the
number of transactions
Available memory
Transaction timeout
SQL Locks

15. BAM Performance Factors
BAM EventStream APIs
DirectEventStream (DES)
BufferedEventStream (BES)
OrchestrationEventStream (OES)
MessageEventStream (MES)

16. Host Configuration
Separation of functionality
Provides Scalability
Dedicated tracking host
Disable tracking when not required
MaxReceiveInterval value in the
adm_ServiceClass table
Do not cluster hosts unless absolutely necessary

17. Orchestrations
Use XMLReader instead XMLDocument
Use distinguished fields
Persistence points
Use Appropriate .NET classes
Helpers and Services
Entities and Business Objects
Call Vs Start orchestration shape
Impact of correlated messages on throttling

18. Action Items
Take maximum advantage of your existing
investment
Download BizTalk Server 2009 Trial Version
Developer Edition is FREE with MSDN
subscription

19. Related Content
BizTalk Server Technology Tent Sessions
Break Out Session: Solving Enterprise Integration challenges with BizTalk Server
Break Out Session: Birds of the same feather - BizTalk Server and WCF
Free BizTalk Server certification exam (70-241) at onsite Certification testing centre

20. Track Resources
BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=98ecf11a-9a8e-4939-8cef-2bc5536dc792&displaylang=en
BizTalk Server Database Optimizations
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743398.aspx
BizTalk Server Performance Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalkperformance
Testing BizTalk Server on Hyper-V
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768537.aspx

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24. Backup Slides

25. Investigating Bottlenecks
Initial troubleshooting
Performance Counters
Throughput Vs latency
Scaling
Scaling Up
Scaling Out

26. Resolving CPU Bottlenecks
Add multiple processors for multi-threaded
applications
Reduce thread count for your process

27. Resolving memory bottlenecks
Tune memory allocations
Increase the size of windows paging file
Disable non-essential services
Remove unnecessary protocols and drivers
Install additional memory