IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.1.0.3 delivers
VMware support and seamless DB2 and Oracle Database integration
IBM United States
Software Announcement 208-279
July 29, 2008
 ENUS208-279.PDF (89KB)
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WebSphere® Virtual
Enterprise is designed to:
- Reduce operational and energy costs by fully utilizing hardware and application
servers
- Increase flexibility and agility to quickly supply "capacity" for new
applications or services
- Enhance traffic shaping and flow control through intelligent routing of
application and service requests to speed results and avoid conflicts
- Deliver resources dynamically to your highest priority applications
- Increase application availability, resiliency, and performance improving
quality of service
- Achieve interruption-free application upgrades by running multiple production
versions
WebSphere eXtreme
Scale offers:
- Fast application performance -- Use as a powerful distributed cache to
speed application access to data
- Foundation for high-throughput transaction processing -- Can increase
responsiveness and accelerates the performance of data-intensive applications
yielding higher throughput
- Linear scalability
- High availability and fault tolerance -- Can lower risks of data loss
and limit after-hours recovery efforts
- Automatic replication of data -- Can lower management burden and ensure
data availability
Compute Grid lets you:
- Utilize batch processing with Javatm on multiple platforms, including development
frameworks and tooling, to provide a robust management infrastructure for
submitting, monitoring, and controlling batch workloads.
- Avoid costly duplication of resources by combining transactional and batch-type
workloads on distributed platforms, increasing operational efficiency and
resource utilization.
- Take full advantage of server resources by using a common pool of virtualized
resources for multiple application types.
- Optimize service levels with a common set of service policies across both
OLTP and batch workloads, in conjunction with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise.
- Scale batch workloads across a large number of processing resources using
parallel job management services to accelerate job completion time and achieve
required service levels.
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, or IBM Americas
Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
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IBM® WebSphere Extended
Deployment V6.1.0.3 is a suite of three powerful application infrastructure
products: WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise, WebSphere eXtreme
Scale, and WebSphere Extended
Deployment Compute Grid, with the following enhanced capabilities:
- WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise (formerly Extended Deployment Operations Optimization) provides
support for VMware ESX Server 3.5 environments
- WebSphere eXtreme
Scale (formerly Extended Deployment Data Grid) provides:
- Seamless integration with Oracle and IBM DB2® databases to allow automated, bi-directional
synchronization between WebSphere eXtreme Scale and both databases
- Automatic data loaders for both OpenJPA (Java Persistence API) and the Hibernate
persistence service
- Data locality, or zone support, enhanced to provide proximity based routing
which intelligently routes data access requests to the nearest partition
- Performance enhancements and streamlined application programming interfaces
improve usability, developer productivity, and enhance support for the Spring
Framework
- WebSphere Extended
Deployment Compute Grid contains a parallel job manager, which enables scalable
job parallelization
- WebSphere Extended
Deployment V6.1.0.3 now supports IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 for supported WebSphere Portal
platforms
WebSphere Extended
Deployment V6.1.0.3 supports Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS®.
This support satisfies the statement of direction contained in Software Announcement 208-088, dated April 22, 2008.
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Take VMware environments to the next level with WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and Application
Infrastructure Virtualization
WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise V6.1.0.3 fully supports VMware ESX Server 3.5 environments. You
can utilize the full complement of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise functionality
with VMware ESX Server 3.5 environments, including dynamic clusters, service
policy goals with autonomic request flow management (using the Autonomic Request
Flow Manager component), and the use of the Application Placement Controller
(APC) to place long-running, or batch, jobs when used in conjunction with WebSphere Extended
Deployment Compute Grid. In addition, multiple application servers, or nodes,
can be supported within an individual virtual or physical machine.
Use WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise in conjunction with VMware ESX Server, and other server virtualization
technologies such as IBM PowerVMtm, to extend the value of virtualization to
incorporate an application-oriented approach to virtual infrastructure management.
Application Infrastructure Virtualization provides the ability to separate
applications from the physical and virtual infrastructure they run on. Workloads
can then be dynamically placed and migrated across a pool of application server
resources allowing the infrastructure to dynamically adapt and respond to
business needs in real time. Requests can be prioritized and intelligently
routed to respond to the most critical applications and users.
Extend the value of your VMware environments by enabling:
Enhanced isolation characteristics and resiliency
- Ensure an application within a virtual machine does not consume all resources
in the virtual machine and impact other applications running in the virtual
machine
- Prevent potential over-commitment, by virtual machines, of physical resources
(for example, memory)
- Health management of applications - fixing the problem, or routing work
around the problem
Increased management efficiencies - Increase utilization of virtual
machines using intelligent workload management to prevent virtual machine
sprawl and ensure optimization goals are met across the entire set of virtual
machines in an infrastructure.
WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise can also work with and extend the value of other virtualization
technologies, such as IBM PowerVM and Solaris Containers, if resource allocations
are fixed and not modified dynamically. For IBM PowerVM, WebSphere Virtual Enterprise supports:
- LPARs with fixed CPU resources
- LPARs with fixed fractional allocation of CPU resources
- DLPAR with whole (non-shared) allocation
WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise does not work with or support dynamic micro-partitioning (shared
resource pool across multiple partitions) using the IBM PowerVM virtualization capabilities.
For additional information on the value proposition of WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise and virtualization visit
- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/WebSphere_Virtual_Enterprise_wp.pdf
Enhanced database and back-end data store capabilities and integration
with WebSphere eXtreme
Scale
Distributed data architectures, aimed at improving transaction performance
and providing extreme scalability, often require interfacing with backend
databases or data stores to either load or store data persistently. To facilitate
this integration and to enhance support for extreme transaction processing
and caching scenarios, WebSphere eXtreme Scale V6.1.0.3 includes a number
of features aimed at improving the integration and usability with backend
data stores.
WebSphere eXtreme
Scale provides seamless integration with Oracle and IBM DB2 databases to allow automated, bi-directional
synchronization between WebSphere eXtreme Scale and both databases. Both
write-through and write-behind semantics are supported. The new write-behind
loader support enables more flexible data invalidation and reloading capabilities
with full transactional support. In addition, WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides automatic
data loaders for OpenJPA (Java Persistence API) and the Hibernate
persistence service. WebSphere eXtreme Scale can provide level 2 caching
for JPA and Hibernate persistence approaches.
In distributed data architectures, a key performance optimization is related
to accessing data that is the nearest, or close in proximity to where the
data is accessed, or requested. WebSphere eXtreme Scale includes support
for partition placement into zones. This function allows more control over
how WebSphere eXtreme
Scale places partitions across the distributed data grid infrastructure. Java virtual
machines that host a WebSphere eXtreme Scale server can be tagged with
a zone identifier. Further, the deployment file includes one or more zone
rules and these zone rules are associated with a partition type. This capability
is useful to ensure that data primaries and replicas are placed in different
locations or zones for high availability. WebSphere eXtreme Scale data locality,
or zone support, has been enhanced to provide proximity-based routing, which
intelligently routes data access requests to the nearest partition, either
primary or replica, from where the data access request originates.
WebSphere eXtreme
Scale also includes a number of performance enhancements such as, streamlined
application programming interfaces to improve usability and developer productivity,
and enhancement for the Spring Framework integration.
Enablement of massively parallel batch job scenarios with Compute Grid
Batch, or long running, programs process numerous records, which can often
be divided logically for parallel processing across many processing nodes
across the batch infrastructure. This significantly reduces the elapsed time
for long running jobs for improved service level attainment and to support
your effort for real-time, or straight-through, processing. WebSphere Extended
Deployment Compute Grid provides a parallel job manager, which enables massively
scalable job parallelization.
The parallel job manager provides powerful, easy-to-use parallel control
application programming interfaces. It introduces the notion of a logical
job, which is an abstraction that simplifies operational control and significantly
simplifies the semantics associated with administration of massively parallel
jobs. You can combine this capability with WebSphere eXtreme Scale to build high-performance
"eXtreme Batch" applications that combine the powerful nature of massively
powerful batch with the high-performance characteristics provided by the use
in-memory caches. This reduces overall job execution time and improves your
ability to meet service level commitments.
IBM Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS is supported
All features of WebSphere Extended Deployment fully support Getting
Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS.
For information on this capability, refer to Software Announcement 208-088, dated April 22, 2008.
New names for WebSphere Extended Deployment products
The WebSphere Extended
Deployment Operations Optimization feature of WebSphere Extended Deployment is renamed WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise.
The WebSphere Extended
Deployment Data Grid feature is renamed WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
Obtaining WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.1.0.3
You can download WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.1.0.3 from WebSphere Extended
Deployment support. Visit
- http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/extend/support/
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5655-P28 WebSphere Extended
Deployment for z/OS V6
5724-J34 WebSphere Extended
Deployment V6
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