1.6 High Availability solution for WebSphere Commerce

This book is divided into eight parts along the life cycle events of a site development, for example, install, development, testing, performance tuning, maintenance, and so on.

The central theme of High Availability and performance permeates throughout the book.

In Table 1-1, we list some of the potential single points of failure in a WebSphere Commercesite and links to some of the key, relevant sections that contain the High Availability and performance considerations.

Table 1-1 Single points of failure in a WebSphere Commerce site
Points of failure References Load Balancer

Refer to 7.2, Introduction to Load Balancer High Availability. Web server

Refer to 7.1, Introduction to Web server High Availability. WebSphere Application Server

Refer to Chapter 6, WebSphere Application Server High Availability. WebSphere Application Server node agent

Visit http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/SG246451.html?Open and http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/SG247304.html?Open. WebSphere Application Server ND

Visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/network/features/?S_CMP=rnav. Database

Refer to Chapter 5, Database tier High Availability.

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