Using a heterogeneous cell to support mixed platforms within a cell

With careful planning, you can create a deployment manager cell that includes nodes on both distributed and z/OS operating system platforms.

For example, you can create a deployment manager cell that includes z/OS nodes, Linux nodes, UNIX(R) nodes, and Windows nodes. This kind of configuration is referred to as a heterogeneous cell.

A heterogeneous cell does require significant planning. The Heterogeneous Cells – cells with nodes on mixed operating system platforms white paper outlines the planning and system considerations required to build a heterogeneous cell.

If you use the administrative console to create a new server, you choose the server template that provides the initial configuration settings for the server. After you select a managed node on which to create a server, the administrative console offers you the choice of templates that can be used for the operating system platform of that node.


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