Workload management for all platforms except z/OS
Workload management optimizes the distribution of client processing tasks. Incoming work requests are distributed to the appservers, enterprise beans, servlets, and other objects that can most effectively process the requests.
Workload management provides the following benefits to applications that are installed on WAS ND:
- It balances client workloads, allowing processing tasks to be distributed according to the capacities of the different machines in the system.
- It provides failover capability by redirecting client requests if one or more servers is unable to process them. This improves the availability of applications and admin services.
- It 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.
- It enables servers to be transparently maintained and upgraded while applications remain available for users.
- It centralizes the administration of servers and other objects.
In WAS environment, you use clusters, transports, and replication domains to implement workload management.
Related concepts
Techniques for managing state
Related tasks
Balancing workloads