Hi,
I am trying to establish if its possible to setup my SaaS on Azure as follows. My SaaS needs 2 public HTTPS endpoints
- a Web based portal with HTTPS access e.g. admin.domain.com
- a WSDL providing HTTPS web service endpoint e.g. auto.domain.com ( and auto2.domain.com, auto3.domain.com - for multi tennant access)
I need a minimum of 2 VMs
1. VM with IIS and SQL* to serve the web based portal
2. VM with IIS to server WSLD - this VM needs access to common SQL server instance aswell
*SQL could be on a 3rd VM
From my reading and testing it doesn't look like this fairly trivial requirement is possible. If I try to put both VMs in the same cloud service, there doesn't appear to be a way to create a 2nd public endpoint e.g. to serve the WSLD - in any case, I understand that Azure will start to try and load balance requests - this would also not be possible as 1 VM will serve portal and the other will serve WSLD. -
if I put VMs in separate Cloud Services, there doesn't appear to be away to allow the 2nd VM communicate with SQL instance in the other service.
To ensure clients can communicate with the service, I want to run the endpoints on the standard HTTPS port.
I would appreciate any comments or experience with this type of setup.
Thanks, Conor.
edit - a possible solution is here