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Prerequisite skills
Product overview
Planning
Installing
Customizing
Migrating
Administering
Monitoring
Developing
Troubleshooting
Reference
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Prerequisite skills

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 6.0.x Information Center (Web site)
Use this information center to configure your WebSphere Application Server Version 6.0.2 environment.


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Product overview

IBM education assistant (Web site)
View the many available IBM Education Assistant modules for a quick understanding of Version 6.0.x and its features.
Optimize your application infrastructure with WebSphere Extended Deployment (Presentations, tutorials, and demos)
Learn about how WebSphere Extended Deployment can scale on demand through dynamic allocation of resources, deliver predictable application quality of service consistent with business goals, improve application manageability, and support high-end transaction processing.
Understand WebSphere Extended Deployment (Article)
This article gives you an overview of some of the autonomic features of WebSphere Extended Deployment. WebSphere Extended Deployment manages a high volume of system transactions and simplifies the complexity of deploying applications.
Why you need WebSphere Extended Deployment (Article)
Learn about why you need WebSphere Extended Deployment, the first product in the WebSphere family to take full advantage of autonomic computing. This article looks at the product value in providing monitoring, availability, system visualization, and partitioning for your production environment.
Optimize your on demand applications and resources using IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 5.1 (Web site)
Discover the on demand operating environment capabilities for monitoring and improving performance of business processes. Get detailed information about the features of WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 5.1 and find out how it can help you optimize usage of your IT resources. You can also learn how WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 5.1 can prioritize and load balance requests intelligently, allowing you to use it to achieve high-performance, on demand business processes.
WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 6.0.1 Tech Talk (Presentations, tutorials, and demos)
This presentation reviews the unique features of WebSphere Extended Deployment and explains its complementary relationship to the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS product. Learn about positioning and value essential to investing, developing, and representing solutions that include this product.


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Planning

Exploring new network topologies made possible by WebSphere Extended Deployment and the on demand router (Article)
WebSphere Extended Deployment and its intelligent new routing engine, the on demand router (ODR), offer network designers amazing new topology options that were previously unavailable. This article describes how WebSphere Extended Deployment exceeds the current expectations of a highly available environment.


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Installing

Supported hardware and software (Web site)
The latest information on supported hardware and software prerequisites.
Version 6.0.x installation (Presentations, Tutorials, and Demos)
View the IBM Education Assistant modules for a quick understanding of Version 6.0.x installation.
Installing WebSphere Extended Deployment (Information center)
This topic describes how to install WebSphere Extended Deployment as a full installation and in a mixed environment.
Planning and Installing Guide (Book - documentation, pdf)
Read all the topics that pertain to installation and getting started with WebSphere Extended Deployment. PDF guides include the same topics as the information center, in a linear format that is easy to read and print. See the information center for the very latest content.
Program Directory for WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6.0.1 (Book - documentation, pdf)
Use the Program Directory to install WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6.0.1 on your target machine.


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Customizing

WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6.0.1 Customization Guide (Book - documentation, pdf)
Use this customization guide to add WebSphere Extended Deployment capabilities to an existing WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment for z/OS environment.


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Migrating

Migrating from WebSphere Extended Deployment Version 5.1 (Information center)
This topic describes how to migrate Version 5.1 to Version 6.0 or Version 6.0.1.
Migrate your applications to a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment (Article)
Migrating WebSphere Application Server applications into a WebSphere Extended Deployment environment consists of several major steps involving server layout, infrastructure building, and capacity and performance testing. This article explains key aspects of moving the IBM internal-hosted applications to a WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Extended Deployment infrastructure.


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Administering

Preparing your environment to support autonomic management (Information center)
Use this set of tasks to configure the autonomic management of WebSphere Extended Deployment, according to your defined business goals. Includes information about the on demand router (ODR), dynamic clusters, service policies, work classes, health policies, routing work to foreign nodes, and more.
Configuring the autonomic managers (Information center)
Fine-tune the behavior of the autonomic managers that control your WebSphere Extended Deployment environment.
Deploying application editions without loss of service (Information center)
Use application editions to manage interruption-free production application deployments.


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Monitoring

Monitoring operations (Information center)
Visually monitor the performance of your WebSphere Extended Deployment environment with the runtime topology, runtime map, and runtime tasks.


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Developing

ObjectGrid Programming Guide (Book - documentation, pdf)
The ObjectGrid Programming Guide contains information about the ObjectGrid API and developing ObjectGrid applications.
Partitioning facility programming (Information center)
This section describes the partitioning facility (WPF) programming environment and how to interact with programming when using the Rational Application Developer product.
Developing and deploying business grid applications (Information center)
This section describes two styles of long-running applications: compute-intensive and transactional batch applications. Each type of application has a distinct programming model, but both share a common infrastructure for submitting and managing work.


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Troubleshooting

IBM support assistant (Web site)
IBM® Support Assistant is a free, stand-alone application that you can install on any workstation. You can enhance this application by installing plug-in modules for the IBM products that you use. The IBM Support Assistant saves you time searching product, support, and educational resources. If you need to open a problem report, IBM Support Assistant helps you gather support information, and then creates and tracks your electronic problem report.
Release Notes (Information center)
Resolve problems more quickly. The Release Notes describe last-minute updates, limitations, and known problems. Release Notes are published as Technotes. This document provides queries to find the set of Release Notes that you want to see.
Enabling Logging of Autonomic Tasks in WebSphere Extended Deployment (Web site)
This article demonstrates how to write a Java client that automatically logs the autonomic actions of WebSphere Extended Deployment.


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Reference

developerWorks: Blogs: Inside WebSphere Extended Deployment (Web site)
The WebSphere Extended Deployment development team explains how to use WebSphere Extended Deployment and how the product can contribute to your business.
developerWorks : WebSphere : Forums : WebSphere Extended Deployment (Web site)
This forum is for the WebSphere Extended Deployment user community to interact with each other and with the development team on questions and issues related to the WebSphere Extended Deployment product. Use this forum to better understand WebSphere Extended Deployment, to debug problems, to make requests, and to get answers.


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Education

SW729: Introduction to IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment V5.1 (Online course)


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Glossary

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