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Build a highly available application platform for J2EE, Part 2: Setting up the hardware platform

Eric Ye, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Eric Ye is part of the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team (formerly High Volume Web Sites). The HiPODS team continues to evolve its work from high-volume Web architectures to high-performance on demand operating environments, with an emphasis on optimizing IT resources and helping IBM customers move toward becoming on demand businesses. They learn customer pain points and requirements, and feed them back to IBM product groups and IBM Global Services. For technical questions, contact Eric at ye@us.ibm.com.
Joseph Kim, Software Engineer, IBM
Joseph Kim is part of the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team (formerly High Volume Web Sites). The HiPODS team continues to evolve its work from high-volume Web architectures to high-performance on demand operating environments, with an emphasis on optimizing IT resources and helping IBM customers move toward becoming on demand businesses. They learn customer pain points and requirements, and feed them back to IBM product groups and IBM Global Services.
Nambi Yogalingam, Software Engineer, IBM
Nambi Yogalingam is part of the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team (formerly High Volume Web Sites). The HiPODS team continues to evolve its work from high-volume Web architectures to high-performance on demand operating environments, with an emphasis on optimizing IT resources and helping IBM customers move toward becoming on demand businesses. They learn customer pain points and requirements, and feed them back to IBM product groups and IBM Global Services.
Lei Zhang, Co-op, IBM
Lei Zhang is part of the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team (formerly High Volume Web Sites). The HiPODS team continues to evolve its work from high-volume Web architectures to high-performance on demand operating environments, with an emphasis on optimizing IT resources and helping IBM customers move toward becoming on demand businesses. They learn customer pain points and requirements, and feed them back to IBM product groups and IBM Global Services.
Veronica Chiu, Co-op, IBM
Veronica Chiu is part of the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team (formerly High Volume Web Sites). The HiPODS team continues to evolve its work from high-volume Web architectures to high-performance on demand operating environments, with an emphasis on optimizing IT resources and helping IBM customers move toward becoming on demand businesses. They learn customer pain points and requirements, and feed them back to IBM product groups and IBM Global Services.

Summary:  In this series, you use existing hardware and software from across IBM divisions to produce a complete solution that offers high availability. Follow the steps to discover the baseline of what is possible using current technologies and existing hardware and software products. Then, you'll enhance the system design to take advantage of emerging technologies in the areas of automation, faster failure detection, and multisite failover. This tutorial shows how to set up the the hardware platform for this project with IBM BladeCenter, FAStT storage and IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller.

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Date:  25 Mar 2005
Level:  Introductory
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This tutorial is the second installment in a series from the Continuous Computing team focusing on building a highly available solution platform for Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Using existing hardware and software from across IBM divisions, you learn how to produce a complete solution that offers high availability throughout. In the first phase, we focus on establishing the baseline of what is possible using current technologies. Then, we enhance the design of the system to take advantage of emerging technologies in automation, faster failure detection, and multisite failover. In this tutorial, you'll set up the hardware platform for this project using IBM® BladeCenter™, FAStT storage, and IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller.

If you want to learn how to set up the hardware for a highly available platform, this tutorial is meant for you. You'll need basic knowledge of storage area networks (SANs), networking, and blade server and storage products to help you complete the tasks.

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Prerequisites

To set up the environment described in this tutorial, you'll need:

  • IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, 2 SAN Volume Controller nodes and software
  • IBM eServer™ BladeCenter with 14 HS20 blade servers and fiber channel switch module
  • IBM 2109 F-16 2109 SAN switch
  • IBM FAStT900 storage system with 500GB of disk space
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ (RHEL) 3.0

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