Administering the environment includes starting and stopping servers in stand-alone mode or in WebSphere® Application Server. You can also use WebSphere eXtreme Scale as a session manager in a WebSphere Application Server environment.
Server types
WebSphere eXtreme Scale has two types of servers: catalog servers and container servers. Catalog servers control the placement of shards and discover and monitor the container servers. Multiple catalog servers together comprise the catalog service. Container servers are the Java™ virtual machines that store the application data for the grid.
Stand-alone mode
Stand-alone mode refers to a WebSphere eXtreme Scale configuration that is running by itself, without any other application server products.
Running within WebSphere Application Server
When you run WebSphere eXtreme Scale on top of WebSphere Application Server, catalog servers automatically start on the WebSphere Application Server servers. To start container servers, you must package and deploy your application with ObjectGrid XML files.