Clusters

Clusters are sets of managed servers that provide high availability and workload balancing for applications. Members of a cluster can be servers located on different host machines or servers located on the same host machine (the same node).

Clusters give your applications more capacity and availability than a single server. A clustered environment provides the following benefits:

For more information about clusters, see Introduction: Clusters in the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment documentation.

For more information about establishing a clustered environment in IBM® WebSphere® Process Server, see Creating a clustered environment.


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