Workload management for all platforms except z/OS
Workload management optimizes the distribution of client processing tasks to appservers, enterprise beans, and servlets. Workload management also provides failover when servers are not available, improving application availability.
Workload management provides the following benefits to WAS applications:
- Balances client workloads, allowing processing tasks to be distributed according to the capacities of the different machines in the system.
- Provides failover capability by redirecting client requests if one or more servers is unable to process them. This improves the availability of applications and administrative services.
- Enables systems to be scaled up to serve a higher client load than provided by the basic configuration. With clustering, additional instances of servers, servlets, and other objects can be added to the configuration.
- Enables servers to be transparently maintained and upgraded while applications remain available for users.
- Centralizes the administration of servers and other objects.
In the WAS environment, you implement workload management by using clusters, transports, and replication domains.
Related concepts
Techniques for managing state
Related tasks
Balance workloads with clusters