WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition

Optimized to run in server virtualization environments

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition offers all of the robust features of the WebSphere Application Server Family for virtual environments

Drives business agility by providing developers and IT Architects with an innovative, performance based foundation to build, reuse, run, integrate and manage SOA applications and services within virtualized environments

  • Supports application edition management to orchestrate the roll-out of new application versions
  • Supports policy-based management in the form of health management and service policy management to reduce risk of downtime and make fine-grained resource allocation decisions based on observed demand and configured policy
  • Special edition of WebSphere Application Server that runs on top of a hypervisor, such as IBM PowerVM on AIX and VMware ESX, and supports the Open Virtualization Format
  • Pre-loaded on IBM Workload Deployer to easily deploy and manage SOA applications and services in a private cloud
  • Enables rapid setup and use of Feature Packs with WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition
  • World-class clustering and high availability management to help eliminate the cost of system downtime
  • Delivers optimized runtime performance through provisioning, web services, and EJB3 enhancements which can result in fewer energy consuming processors performing the same workloads of previous versions

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WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition offers all of the robust features of the WebSphere Application Server Family, including simplified development, high performance, and intelligent management, and optimizes them for server virtualization environments.

Simplified and Tuned Environment

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor edition is built on the virtual appliance model. The core operating system is optimized for WebSphere Application Server following WebSphere tuning best practices, allowing for a uniquely valuable runtime environment. The WebSphere Application Server and its environment is automatically configured and tuned according to WebSphere best practices at first startup. Hypervisor Edition is packaged as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) compliant package allowing for rapid introduction into server virtualization environments running hypervisors, such as IBM PowerVM or VMware ESX.

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition follows in the tradition of the WebSphere Application Server family and is built to accommodate a flexible and changing customer environment. This single virtual image allows for quick deployment of application foundation topologies, and can be instantiated as any of the following profiles through a new configuration interface.

  • Deployment manager

  • Cluster member

  • Standalone Sever

  • Job manager

  • AdminAgent

  • IHS

This virtual image also allows customers to optionally configure Feature Packs on system startup. This ala carte model allows Feature Packs to be simply and rapidly tested in a customer environment.

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition also brings simplified maintenance to WebSphere environments in the cloud. IBM maintains and updates the full OVF compliant image with each fixpack, including the core operating system.

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition for Novell SLES on System z offers two options to support use on both dedicated Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors and shared IFL processors:

WebSphere Application Server for Novell SLES on System z - Novell Subscription not required
For use on dedicated IFL processors. This offering includes licensing entitlement to the Novell SLES on System z component and technical support and maintenance updates under the WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Passport Advantage® maintenance agreement.

WebSphere Application Server for Novell SLES on System z - Novell Subscription required
For use on shared IFL processors on which you already have a current Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z subscription. The license agreement for this offering requires you to have and maintain your Novell Subscription for entitlement to WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition maintenance. Technical support for the Novell SLES component is not included in this offering. You will obtain technical support directly through Novell under your Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z subscription.

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