Providing your chosen operating system is Linux on x86-64, you can use the WebSphere® Message Broker Hypervisor Edition without the IBM® Hardware Appliances. In this stand-alone environment, you can deploy the virtual machine image on a VMware ESXi hypervisor. Using the virtual machine image without the IBM Hardware Appliances provides a way to deploy a virtual system without a full cloud environment.
The following diagram shows a basic work flow. An administrator downloads WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition on to a VMware ESXi hypervisor and configures the virtual machine image as a WebSphere Message Broker component by starting the virtual machine image and performing the required configuration on that virtual machine image.
You must extract the product package and start the virtual machine. You are prompted to complete a series of panels to configure the operating system and the WebSphere Message Broker part on that virtual machine.
Maintenance for virtual machines is applied in the same way as it is for a WebSphere Message Broker environment.