IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance overview

The IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance licensed product is a purpose-built appliance that is optimized for cost-efficient, rapid, drop-in caching for WebSphere applications.

Benefits

With DataPower XC10 Appliance, you can experience the following benefits:
Easy scale-out
DataPower XC10 Appliance contains a 240 GB elastic data grid that you can use to host data for your business-critical applications. To add more memory to your data grid, you can add another appliance to your configuration, creating a collective of appliances that host your data.
Drop-in use without code changes
You can use DataPower XC10 Appliance without extensive changes to the code in your applications. You can use the appliance in the following drop-in scenarios:
  • Session management for HTTP requests
  • WebSphere Application Server dynamic cache support
Fault tolerance
The data in your data grids is automatically replicated, which lowers the risk of data loss.
Flexible and simple user management
With the user interface, you can easily manage users and user groups for your appliance. You can also use the user interface to create, manage, and monitor your data grids.

High-level topology

DataPower XC10 Appliance sits behind your application server tier. In your application server tier, you install the WebSphere eXtreme Scale Client on each node, including your deployment manager. This client enables your application server tier to communicate with the appliance tier. In the appliance tier, you can associate the appliances together to form a collective.
Figure 1. High-level topology
High-level topology