Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- About this redbook -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Prepare your WebSphere Web site for e-business on demand -- What are leading-edge customers doing? -- IBM Server Allocation for WebSphere Application Server -- An illustration of the server allocation process -- Start now to be ready -- Introduction to grid computing and autonomic computing -- Grid computing and Web services standards -- Autonomic computing -- References -- Chapter 2. Architecture for virtualization with WebSphere Application Server, V5 -- Introduction -- Application server virtualization -- Virtualization in the application server environment -- Challenges -- Preparing the application server environment for virtualization -- WebSphere Application Server, Version 5.0 and virtualization -- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment -- Clustering -- Workload management -- Administrative model -- Coexistence -- Architecture for virtualization -- Application isolation -- Sharing versus isolation -- the trade-offs -- System administration -- Sample architecture -- Other virtualization techniques -- LPARs in a virtualized server environment -- Conclusion -- Sample script -- References -- Chapter 3. Advanced clustering techniques for maximizing Web site availability with WebSphere Application Server, Version 5 -- Introduction -- The Web server tier -- Clustering the Web server tier -- Maintenance -- The application server tier -- Clustering the application server tier -- Maintenance and failover scenarios -- Summary of best practices -- Conclusion and future directions -- Sample scripts -- References -- Chapter 4. Resilience of WebSphere Portal clusters under load -- Introduction -- Workload management -- Failover and high availability.
