Choose your deployment environment pattern

You can configure your deployment environment by choosing one of the IBM-supplied topology patterns or by creating your own custom deployment environment. This topic section lists and describes the available IBM-supplied topology patterns and presents considerations for choosing a topology.

You should familiarize yourself with the information in:

You have completed designing your deployment environment and you need to determine whether one of the IBM-supplied patterns that are supported through the various product wizards would meet your needs.

If you intend to use a z/OS system or cluster in your deployment environment, make sure you determine which function that server or cluster will provide. You cannot mix z/OS systems with other systems in the same cluster so your design must take this fact into account.


Procedure

  1. Determine which IBM-supplied pattern best meets your business needs

    See Topology patterns and supported BPM product features for information on the available deployment environment patterns.

  2. If you need to provide only mediation services, you will install WebSphere ESB instead of Process Server.

  3. If none of the IBM-supplied patterns meets your business needs, you can implement a custom deployment environment.

    To implement a custom pattern requires a good knowledge of how deployment environments work and an understanding of how to correctly configure servers and clusters.


What to do next

Install and configure the product.


Related reference:
Restarting deployment environments