This IBM Redbooks publication provides the foundation for establishing an automatic provisioning environment of Web server solutions. The material discussed in this book provides detailed information on using the IBM BladeCenter platform as a building block for hosting a highly available, multi-tier application. The book also shows how the IBM Director and Remote Deployment Manager software products can be used to automate the deployment of WebSphere software, and demonstrates how these products can be scripted to provide hot-standby and hot-addition of blade servers to running WebSphere clusters.. The additional software components of IBM Web Infrastructure Orchestration are designed to respond dynamically to Web capacity needs and utilization issues. This product bundle, based on the IBM eServer BladeCenter, consists of pre-integrated versions of WebSphere Application Server, DB2, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, and TotalStorage hardware, coordinated by defined business policies and managed by IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator. This book is intended for an audience of experienced developers, designers, planners, network specialists, and testers of the software and hardware components listed above. |