March 2006
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
8h 28m
English
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Architecting High Availability Using WebSphere V6 on z/OS
by Patrick Ryan, Amr Khafagy, Brian De Pradine, Frank Pani, Hong Min, G Michael Connolly
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178 Architecting High Availability Using WebSphere V6 on z/OS
8.1 Sysplex Distributor
We chose to implement the Sysplex Distributor because clients receive the
benefits of workload distribution provided by both Workload Manager and the
Quality of Service (QoS) Policy Agent. In addition, Sysplex Distributor ensures
high availability of the IP applications running on the sysplex cluster, even if one
physical network interface fails or an entire IP stack or z/OS LPAR is lost. Also,
we can implement it on z/OS without needing additional software or hardware.
To implement Sysplex Distributor (SD), follow these steps:
1. Choose the LPAR whose IP stack will execute the Sysplex Distributor
distributing function.
2. Select the LPARs containing the bac ...