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A step-by-step guide to configuring a WebSphere Portal V5 cluster

Marshall Lamb (mlamb@us.ibm.com), Senior Technical Staff Member, WebSphere Portal Architect, EMC
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Marshall Lamb is Chief Programmer for IBM WebSphere Portal. He works on the architectural direction of the product and oversees the implementation of the design.
Belinda Yu (belinday@us.ibm.com), Software Engineer, EMC
Belinda Yu is a software engineer in WebSphere Portal system verification team at the IBM Software Group in Research Triangle Park, NC. Belinda started with the Visual Age product, and has been worked with WebSphere Portal for the past three years.

Summary:  This document, for portal administrators, tells how to create an IBM WebSphere Portal cluster for failover and scalability support, especially for a production environment. This guide walks you through building an example cluster consisting of two portal nodes (WebSphere Portal), a database server (DB2) running 4 databases, a Web server (IBM HTTP Server), an LDAP server (IBM Directory Server, and Deployment Server (a component in WebSphere Application Server).

Date:  30 Jan 2004
Level:  Intermediate

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This document, for portal administrators, tells how to create an IBM WebSphere Portal cluster for failover and scalability support, especially for a production environment. This guide walks you through building an example cluster consisting of two portal nodes (WebSphere Portal), a database server (DB2) running 4 databases, a Web server (IBM HTTP Server), an LDAP server (IBM Directory Server, and Deployment Server (a component in WebSphere Application Server).


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Photo: Marshall Lamb

Marshall Lamb is Chief Programmer for IBM WebSphere Portal. He works on the architectural direction of the product and oversees the implementation of the design.

Belinda Yu is a software engineer in WebSphere Portal system verification team at the IBM Software Group in Research Triangle Park, NC. Belinda started with the Visual Age product, and has been worked with WebSphere Portal for the past three years.

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