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Configuring multi-cell performance management: Star Topology

Configure and manage multi-cell performance in your environment to avoid overprovisioning resources, such as CPU and memory utilization. Adding or removing cells to a star topology is completely dynamic. However, the center cell has to be restarted after the CenterCell=true custom property is set.

Before you begin

Create and configure the cells that communicate with each other. Ensure that system clocks are in sync across all participating cells in Center and Point cells.

About this task

When you configure multi-cell performance management, multiple cells are managed as a single unit, because the cells share common resources. From a functional perspective, performance management, such as dynamic clusters and overload protection, operates on multiple cells of the same hardware in the same way that performance management operates in a single cell. This feature applies directly to the application placement controller to allow management, through dynamic placement and elasticity, throughout the topology.

In a star topology a single cell is designated as the center cell, while the other cells are designated as the point cells. The center cell can perform work, such as contain ODRs and application servers, and only the center cell makes autonomic decisions to start or stop application servers.

Indications for the star topology include:
  • For the consolidation of ODRs, ODRs in a single center cell can route to application servers in multiple point cells.
  • A star topology can help manage performance in server virtualized environments where multiple cells share the same hardware resources. A single Application Placement Controller (APC) in the center cell can manage the performance of all cells in the star topology by starting and stopping application servers in point cells to meet current demand.

The following procedure describes a sample scenario in which multi-cell performance management is configured in a star topology environment so that work requests can be routed from an ODR to dynamic cluster members across cells. The ODR is installed and running on CellA, which is the center cell. The two-point cells, CellB and CellC, contain the dynamic clusters and applications.

Avoid trouble Avoid trouble: Complete either the automatic step or the manual step to configure multi-cell performance management. Do not complete both steps.gotcha

Procedure

Results

You configured multi-cell performance management for your environment so that you can manage your cells as a single unit. You did the configuration by using either the automatic step or the manual step.

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