Planning the installation

Installation scenarios describe the products to install and the basic installation steps. This topic provides common installation scenarios for a WebSphere Application Server product.

Before you begin

Determine what components you want to use for your Web serving environment. The installation scenarios can help you to understand the capabilities of your WebSphere Application Server product. Knowing what you can do with the product might influence how you install the product and other components.

About this task

The installation scenarios use topology diagrams and descriptions to show what components to install for a given topology. The scenarios also have installation steps that link to specific procedures for installing a component, running a command, or using a tool.

Review the scenarios to determine which topology best fits your needs. The diagrams and their accompanying procedures can serve as a roadmap for installing a similar topology.

In addition to product installation diagrams for the installable components, this topic also links to a roadmap for using the Profile Creation wizard. The Profile Creation wizard creates runtime environments for application server processes.

Procedure

  1. Diagrams: Review the installation scenarios for the WebSphere Application Server product, as described in Planning to install WebSphere Application Server.
  2. Diagrams: Review the installation scenarios for the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server, as described in Planning to install Web server plug-ins.
  3. Diagram: Review the installation scenarios for the Application Client, as described in Planning to install WebSphere Application Client.
  4. Diagrams: Review the installation scenarios for profile creation, as described in Planning to create application server environments.
  5. Optional: Review interoperability and coexistence diagrams to know what is possible with Version 6.x.

    WebSphere Application Server Version 6.x can interoperate with your other e-business systems, including other versions of WebSphere Application Server. Interoperability provides a communication mechanism for WebSphere Application Server nodes that are at different versions, running on separate machines. Coexistence describes multiple versions or instances running on the same machine at the same time.

    Interoperability support enhances migration scenarios with more configuration options. Interoperating is often more convenient or practical during the migration of a configuration from an earlier WebSphere Application Server version to a later one. Some machines can have the earlier product version and other machines can have the later version. An environment of machines and application components at different software version levels can involve both interoperability and coexistence.

    It is often impractical, or even physically impossible, to migrate all of the machines and applications within an enterprise at the same time. Understanding multiversion interoperability and coexistence is therefore an essential part of a migration between version levels.

    1. Interoperating
    2. Setting up Version 4.0.x and Version 6.0.x coexistence
    3. Setting up Version 5.x and Version 6.0.x coexistence
    4. Setting up Version 6.0.x coexistence
  6. Optional: Consider performance when designing your network, as described in Queuing network.

Results

Following this procedure results in reviewing installation scenarios to identify specific steps to follow when installing more than one component.

What to do next

After determining an appropriate installation scenario, install the necessary components and configure the products for the system that you selected.

See Installing the product and additional software.




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