IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration
by Bill Hines, Tom Alcott, Keys Botzum, Roland Barcia
Topology Patterns on the Edge
Now that we have discussed the Load Balancer and Caching Proxy separately in simple scenarios, let's conclude by looking at a more typical configuration. Figure 23-16 shows Edge Components in the DMZ, with scalability and failover now at each tier, as opposed to the simple, non-Edge topology we saw at the start of this chapter. We have a pair of active/standby load balancers in the DMZ serving to a pair of proxy servers. The proxy servers then send requests through to the backend “secure” zone, to our HTTP servers. Those HTTP servers are using the WAS plug-in file, which has workload management features to balance load across a tier of WAS application servers. We have redundancy at each layer of the system. However, ...
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