Before creating a MOVEit Transfer web farm, you must have the following:

  • Two or more MOVEit Transfer application servers which will house the application nodes of the web farm.
  • A database server that is remote from the application nodes. You need to use Microsoft SQL Server as the database application.
  • A fileserver (NAS) that is remote from the application nodes. For smaller installations, this may be combined with the database server, but for best performance they should be separate.
  • A network load balancer deployed between the application nodes and the clients who will be accessing the MOVEit Transfer application (typically from the Internet).
  • MOVEit Transfer installation software, and the MOVEit Transfer Web Farm Conversion Assistant utility. (For a typical installation, you can find this in C:\Program Files\MOVEit\Utilities\MOVEit-Transfer-Utilities.zip)
  • A MOVEit Transfer license that authorizes the use of the number of application nodes to be used.
    Note: MOVEit Transfer 2019 and later versions automatically install the utilities zip file, which contains the Web Farm Conversion Assistant utility. It is located by default in the install directory for MOVEit Transfer in a folder named Utilities: (Example: C:\Program Files\MOVEit\Utilities).