Clustered environments

A clustered environment consists of multiple IBM OpenPages® with Watson™ application servers (known as cluster members) running simultaneously to provide increased scalability.

You can set up a vertical cluster with multiple cluster members running on a single computer. You can also set up a horizontal cluster with multiple cluster members running on different computers.

When you set up a clustered environment, load balancing is required to distribute incoming client requests across the members. This configuration allows the IBM OpenPages with Watson application to scale as the number of concurrent users increases.

You can also scale the reporting server horizontally by installing additional reporting servers. You must configure additional Cognos® dispatchers to ensure that the incoming requests are distributed across multiple servers.