IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition

Description

Drives business agility by providing developers and IT Architects with an innovative, performance based foundation to build, reuse, run, integrate and manage SOA applications and services within virtualized environments:

• Supports application edition management to orchestrate the roll-out of new application versions
• Pre-loaded on IBM Workload Deployer to easily deploy and manage SOA applications and services in a private cloud
• Enables rapid setup and use of Feature Packs with WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition
• Supports policy-based management in the form of health management and service policy management to reduce risk of downtime and make fine-grained resource allocation decisions based on observed demand and configured policy
• Special edition of WebSphere Application Server that runs on top of a hypervisor, such as IBM PowerVM on AIX and VMware ESX, and supports the Open Virtualization Format
• World-class clustering and high availability management to help eliminate the cost of system downtime
• Delivers optimized runtime performance through provisioning, web services, and EJB3 enhancements which can result in fewer energy consuming processors performing the same workloads of previous versions