After reading these great FAQ and Discussions ...
ASP.NET Session State
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnasp.../html/a
Understanding session state modes + FAQ
http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=7504
Session State and Clustered SQL Server 2000
http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=435215
we are in the web farm environment, but we decide not to use SQLServer to
store our states, just because it's the worest performance in all state management
solution.
Currently, we got 16 web servers and we are using a (one) seperate server as our State Server and we hope to find any way to tweak) and to prevent it as a single point of failure in the whole system in the web farm.
Is there anyway I can check if the State Service is up (not only if the service is running, but running healthly)? Where are the State data actually located in StateServer? Are they in files/registry/MSDE somewhere?
We have purchased Windows 2003/Application Center 2000/SQL Cluster on EMC SAN/Microsoft Operation Manager/BizTalk Server/Content Management Server/Commerce Server on the whole EC system. We do hope to find the best solution to resolve the single point of failure problem on StateServer.
Is there any 3rd party solution which can resolve this?
Thanks so much in advance.
Regards,
Po-Shan.