WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment

Continuous availability, advanced management and performance optimization for large-scale deployments

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IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment provides an advanced, flexible runtime environment for large-scale application deployments. It offers near-continuous availability with advanced performance and management capabilities for mission-critical applications.

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment provides:

  • Support for open standards and broad programming models including lightweight options for web application deployments.
  • Intelligent management and routing to help deliver reliability and better business results.
  • Improved operations and resiliency through advanced application availability, elasticity and quality of service.
  • Enhanced security and control using integrated management and administrative tools.

Support for open standards and broad programming models

  • Includes Liberty profile for optimizing developer productivity and quickly delivering web, mobile and OSGi applications.
  • Uses Liberty profile as an ultra-lightweight, fast-starting application server that supports IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition V7.0 as an optional pluggable JDK.
  • Supports Web 2.0, Web Mobile, Java batch, XML, Service Component Architecture (SCA), Communications Enabled Applications (CEA), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and dynamic scripting programming languages.
  • Lets you migrate applications from non-IBM servers such as Tomcat, JBoss and Oracle.

Intelligent management and routing

  • Intelligent management capabilities help deliver resiliency and reliability.
  • Intelligent routing helps improve business results by ensuring priority is given to business-critical applications.
  • Requests are prioritized and routed based upon administrator defined rules by managing in-bound transaction (workload) requests in near real time.
  • Processes are streamlined for higher priority requests to help ensure that in-bound requests do not overwhelm backend applications.
  • Dynamic clustering can proactively provision, and start or stop new instances of application server Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) based on workload demands.

Improved operations and resiliency

  • Allows applications to be upgraded without incurring outages to end users, or jeopardizing application or service availability.
  • Monitors the status of your application servers and can sense and respond to problem areas before end users suffer an outage.
  • Enables application rollout without outages and deploys new applications without jeopardizing application or service availability.
  • Uses edge components, which offer load balancing, caching and centralized security for enhanced performance at the edge of the network.
  • Uses parallel processing, allowing large jobs to be partitioned, governed and processed over a collection of server resources.

Enhanced security and control

  • Provides flexible and granular security control to help you protect customer data.
  • Filters records based on the content of log and trace record extensions. Tracks the unique IDs of requests.
  • Enables you to audit changes made to your application server configuration using repository checkpoints.

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Installation Manager

You will be prompted to download and install IBM Installation Manager. The installation sets a preference to connect to an IBM-hosted remote repository that contains the product code. After you have Installation Manager running, use your IBM ID and password to authenticate with the IBM repository and you will then be able to install the product and selected fixes.

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Use Download Director or HTTP to download IBM Installation Manager and product repositories archives to create local repositories. After the download is complete, install IBM Installation Manager. Next, unpack each of the product repository archives to a common directory path. Start IBM Installation Manager and go to the Repository preferences to add paths to each of the unpacked product repository locations. Finally, select the Install option to install product.

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Delivering higher levels of resiliency and reliability to the Liberty profile

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IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment V8.5.5 extends the value of WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Liberty profile with enhancements to help ensure high availability, dynamic scalability, and ease-of management of your network deployment. This version incorporates enhanced resiliency capabilities, helping to drive down total cost of ownership while allowing companies to respond dynamically to evolving business needs.

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V8.5.5 delivers a highly available, scalable environment for your mission-critical applications. Based on the core WebSphere Application Server configuration, V8.5.5 provides world-class clustering and high availability management with:

  • New Intelligent Management capabilities— delivering higher levels of resiliency and reliability (including capabilities formerly available from WebSphere Virtual Enterprise).
  • Enterprise level Java batch capabilities—including parallel job processing, job checkpoints and restart, workload management, and shared OLTP and batch processing.
  • Edge components— for sophisticated load balancing, caching and centralized security for enhanced performance at the edge of the network.
  • Liberty profile enhancements— including new programming model additions: EJB-Lite, CDI, web services, Java Messaging, and message-driven beans; administrative features and management model enable Liberty applications to grow into sophisticated production environments for improved qualities of service.
  • Advanced centralized management and administration— for streamlining management of more complex environments using fewer resources in less time.

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