Easy and Websphere seldom co-exist in the same paragraph. 8.5ND has some nice new bells and whistles. It's also proportionately more of a hog. Their clustering implementation has a number of "poll till I get what I want" cases. It is aware of the application-layer stuff, so can do some other tricks. I'd investigate the Linux clustering possibilities first. Then you'd have a general purpose solution rather than a one-trick pony.
>From what you describe, sounds like you're not going to see a lot of upsides >other than the capability to add cluster members easily if/when you get >another system or LPAR. > Our site is looking to upgrade from WebSphere 7 Base to 8.5 ND. The new > Network Deployment version provides clustering and easier(?) maintenance. > However I was wondering about the true advantages of WAS ND running > under Linux on a single mainframe. For sure, we would be trading simplicity > for a more complex environment, and am wondering about the advantages > versus disadvantages that others have experienced. We have one application > with one production WAS server, and several test WAS environments each > running on their own Linux instance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
