118 DB2 UDB V8 and WebSphere V5 Performance Tuning and Operations Guide
5.1 Environment setup
This section covers the steps to build a basic environment where the DB2 EJB
sample application will be deployed and running. The major products covered
here include DB2 UDB V8 and WebSphere Application Server V5, as well as IBM
HTTP Server.
5.1.1 Installation planning
Before the actual installation begins, the appropriate topology should be chosen
via the thorough consideration for both the business requirements and the
available resources. In our case, we choose to use separate machines for the
database server, application server, and Web server. Certainly, you could also
use the single server topology and put all these products into one machine i ...