WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition offers all of the robust features of the WebSphere Application Server Family, including simplified development, high performance, and intelligent management, and optimizes them for server virtualization environments.

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor edition is built on the virtual appliance model. The core operating system is optimized for WebSphere Application Server following WebSphere tuning best practices, allowing for a uniquely valuable runtime environment. The WebSphere Application Server and its environment is automatically configured and tuned according to WebSphere best practices at first startup. Hypervisor Edition is packaged as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) compliant package allowing for rapid introduction into server virtualization environments running hypervisors, such as VMware ESX or ESXi.

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition follows in the tradition of the WebSphere Application Server family and is built to accommodate a flexible and changing customer environment. This single virtual image allows for quick deployment of application foundation topologies, and can be instantiated as any of the following profiles through a new configuration interface.

• Deployment manager

• Cluster member

• Standalone Sever

• Job manager

• AdminAgent

• IHS

This virtual image also allows customers to optionally configure Feature Packs on system startup. This ala carte model allows Feature Packs to be simply and rapidly tested in a customer environment.

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition also brings simplified maintenance to WebSphere environments in the cloud: IBM maintains and updates the full OVF compliant image with each fixpack, including the core Linux operating system.

For more details on the WebSphere Application Server family of products, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/wasproductline