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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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In summary, to set up the hardware platform for the Continuous Computing project:

Connect both the BladeCenter FC switch module and the FAStT storage server to IBM F-16 SAN switch through the FC interface.
Set IBM Qlogic SAN Switch and IBM F-16 SAN switch to interoperability mode.
On IBM SAN switches, configure SAN zoning as:
- Host zone: visible and accessible to blade servers and SAN Volume Controller nodes
- Storage zone: visible and accessible to SAN Volume Controller nodes and FAStT storage system
On FAStT storage server, configure LUNs from disk arrays.
On SAN Volume Controller:
1. Configure MDisks from LUNs.
2. Create Mdisk groups and add MDisks to the groups.
3. Configure VDisks on top of MDisk groups.
4. Create hosts objects to represent blade servers that need access to VDisks.
5. Assign VDisks to hosts corresponding to blade servers.
On blade servers:
1. Configure blade servers to boot from VDisks.
2. Install RHEL 3.0 on VDisks.
3. Configure blade servers to boot from the correct VDisk.

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