WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.2.0 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, i5/OS, Linux, Solaris, Windows


Using multiple platforms within a cell

With careful planning, you can create a deployment manager cell that includes nodes on both distributed, i5/OS® and z/OS® operating system platforms.

For example, you can create a deployment manager cell that includes i5/OS nodes, z/OS nodes, Linux® nodes, UNIX® nodes, and Windows® nodes. This kind of configuration is referred to as a heterogeneous cell.

A heterogeneous cell does require significant planning. Setting up a heterogeneous cell can also take more time as some of the tasks can not be automated. The "Heterogeneous Cells – cells with nodes on mixed operating system platforms" white paper outlines the planning and system considerations required to build a heterogeneous cell.

If you use the administrative console to create a new server, you choose the server template that provides the initial configuration settings for the server. After you select a managed node on which to create a server, the administrative console offers you the choice of templates that can be used for the operating system platform of that node.

Important: While cells can be heterogeneous, you cannot mix z/OS nodes with other nodes in a server cluster.

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