WebSphere® Virtual
Enterprise extends WebSphere Application
Server
Network Deployment, using service level
management to provide an enhanced quality of service
in dynamic operations and extended manageability.
The
WebSphere Extended
Deployment Version
6.1 product is divided into three functionally independent products.
You now have more choices to address your business challenges. In
addition to the full product containing all features, you have the
option of separately ordering the following products:
WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise for dynamic operations
and application server virtualization,
WebSphere eXtreme Scale for high-performance
and
WebSphere Extended Deployment
Compute Grid for running
and controlling batch-like jobs.
- WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise -
Provides application server virtualization, resource management, and
a host of advanced operational facilities, such as performance visualization,
health management, and application editions. This combination of capabilities
is sometimes referred to collectively as dynamic operations.
Dynamic operations is the core functionality that provides application
virtualization, application server virtualization, and application
infrastructure virtualization. Centralized workload management and
health policy support has been added for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
(PHP) servers and support expanded for other application servers including
workload management, application provisioning, health management,
and additional administration features. This support enables a more
consistent approach to achieving service levels and health policies
for a heterogeneous set of application servers. These capabilities
are also available if you use WebSphere Extended Deployment
Compute Grid with WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise.
To improve overall
operations of complex systems a new centralized installation manager
has been added to reduce installation and maintenance efforts. With
health monitoring policies, you can determine which situations to
monitor and the actions to take when a specific situation occurs.
WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise represents on demand capabilities in an
extended environment. Use the product to enhance operational efficiency
by deploying dynamic operations, service high-volume transactional
workloads with linear scalability and near 100% availability, or manage
large scale, continuously available WebSphere Application
Server environments.
The product introduces application server virtualization and automation.
A virtualized infrastructure redefines the traditional concepts of Java™ 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) resources and applications,
and their relationships with each other. This new infrastructure facilitates
the product's ability to automate operations, thereby simplifying
complex configurations.
WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise is not functional without the WebSphere Application
Server
Network Deployment installation. During
installation, the product automatically identifies the WebSphere Application
Server
Network Deployment installation and extends
the functionality to embrace the themes and added function of the
product.
Restriction: The product
does not support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) features on the z/OS
® operating
system.