Configuring an IIS service group using the wizard

Last published : Aug 05, 2026
Configuring the IIS service group involves creating a IIS service group and defining the attribute values for its resources. After the service group is created, you must configure the shares to mount automatically at startup.
The IIS Configuration Wizard enables you to create and modify IIS service groups, making sites highly available in VCS cluster.
The wizard creates one resource for each IIS site and its associated application pools; the wizard does not create resources that monitor only application pools.
If you are using a non-shared storage configuration (dynamic disk groups configured on local disks), you have to configure the service group manually either using the Cluster Manager (Java Console) or the command line. The wizard currently cannot configure resources (VMNSDg agent) required for monitoring non-shared storage.
See Configuring the service group in a non-shared storage environment.
To configure an IIS service group using the wizard
  1. Start the IIS Configuration Wizard.
or
Launch the Solutions Configuration Center, open the** Solutions tab, expand High Availability Configuration Wizards**, and click the** Launch button for the IIS Configuration Wizard**.
  1. Review the information on the Welcome panel and click Next.
  2. On the Wizard Options panel, click Create service group and clickNext.
  3. On the Service Group Configuration panel, specify the service group details and then click Next.
Specify the following details:
Service Group Name Type a name for the IIS service group.
Available Cluster Systems Select the systems on which to configure the service group and click the right arrow to move the systems to the service group's system list.
To remove a system from the service group's system list, click the system in the Systems in Priority Order box and click the left arrow.
To change a system's priority in the service group's system list, click the system from the Systems in Priority Order and click the up and down arrows.
System priority defines the order in which service groups are failed over to systems. The system at the top of the list has the highest priority while the system at the bottom of the list has the lowest priority.
Include selected systems in the service group's AutoStartList attribute To enable the service group to automatically come online on one of the systems, select this checkbox.
  1. On the Configure IIS Sites panel, add and remove sites from the service group, configure IP addresses, ports, and virtual computer names, optionally choose to configure NetApp SnapMirror resources and then click Next.
Specify the following details:
Add Check the check box corresponding to the site to be configured in VCS.
IP Verify or type the virtual IP address for each site to be configured.
Make sure that each virtual IP address is associated with only one virtual computer name and vice-versa.
Port Type the port number for each site to be configured.
Virtual Name Type a virtual name for the selected site. Each virtual name can be associated with only one virtual IP address at a time.
Configure NetApp SnapMirror Resource(s) This is applicable with VCS for Windows only.
Check the Configure NetApp SnapMirror Resource(s) check box if you want to set up a disaster recovery configuration. The SnapMirror resource is used to monitor replication between filers at the primary and the secondary site, in a disaster recovery configuration.
Note that you must configure the SnapMirror resource only after you have configured the cluster at the secondary site.
  1. On the Network Configuration panel, specify information related to the virtual IP addresses and then click Next.
Specify the following details:
IP Address Displays the virtual IP addresses. The wizard groups systems by the virtual IP addresses associated with the systems.
Subnet Mask If the virtual IP is an IPv4 address, verify or type the subnet mask associated with each virtual IPv4 address.
If the virtual IP is an IPv6 address, verify or type the associated IPv6 prefix. The prefix is generally represented in the following format: ipv6-address/prefix-length .
For example:
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2001:db8:0:1::/64
Adapter Name Select the public adapter associated with the virtual IP address on each system.
  1. This is applicable with VCS for Windows only.
On the Initiator Selection panel, select the initiator for the virtual disk from the list of available initiators displayed for each cluster node, and then click Next.
If you are configuring multiPath I/O (MPIO) over Fibre Channel (FC), you must select at least two FC initiators for each cluster node. Note that the node from which you run this wizard already has an initiator selected by default. This is the initiator that was specified when you connected the LUNs to this cluster node.
  1. On the Application Pool Configuration panel, select the monitoring options for application pools associated with each site and then click Next.
Specify the following details:
Site Name Displays the site names.
AppPoolMon For each site, select the monitoring options from the AppPoolMon list.
Choose from the following options from the drop-down list:
- NONE - The agent does not monitor the application pool associated with the site.
- DEFAULT - Starts and monitors the root application pool associated with the site.
- ALL - Starts all application pools associated with the site and monitors root application pool.
  1. On the Service Group Summary panel, review the service group configuration and then click Next.
The following service group details are visible:
Resources Displays a list of configured resources. The wizard assigns unique names to resources. Change the names of resource, if required.
To edit a resource name, select the resource name and either click it or press the F2 key. Edit the resource name and then press the Enter key to confirm the changes. To cancel editing a resource name, press the Esc key.
Attributes Displays the attributes and their configured values, for a resource selected in the Resources list.
Enable FastFailOver attribute for all the VMDg resources in the service group This is applicable to SFW HA only.
To enable all the VMDg resources in the service group for fast failover, select this checkbox.
  1. Click Yes on the dialog that prompts you that the wizard will run commands to modify the service group configuration.
  2. In the completion dialog box, check Bring the service group online if you want to bring the service group online on the local system, and then clickFinish.