Implementing High Availability for Your WebSphere Application Servers

What are some of the ways to implement high availability for your WebSphere Application Servers (WASs)? IBM Global Services has implemented high-availability WAS servers in different ways for customers at our commercial server farms. In some cases, IBM uses AIX Clustering with HACMP or Microsoft OS Clustering (MSCS). In other cases, IP sprayers (e.g., Network Dispatchers, Cisco Local Directors, Cisco Distributed Directors, etc.) provide failover and load balancing capability. There is also the possibility of using a single server that has very high availability with redundancy built in (e.g., fault-tolerant systems such as IBM z Series mainframes or Tandem computers). This ...

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