Deployment of cachespec.xml | Planned outages

Rollout update

WebSphere Commerce Version 6 takes advantage of a new feature in WebSphere Application Server V6 called rollout update, whereby in a clustered environment, an application update request is sent to one node at a time, and only when the first node completes its update and comes back online is the change repeated on a subsequent node. Hence, this process ensures that at any given time during the application update, at least one node remains online and actively processing user requests. Because of this new feature, the following changes no longer require an outage: any partial application updates such as new custom code deployment, store publish, and file updates inside Commerce EAR.

Depending on the network speed, the size of the WebSphere Commerce EAR, and application server processing power, the rollout update process could take some time. Anywhere from fewer than 5 minutes to more than 30 minutes is possible.