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WAS ND clustering mechanism
After federating the WebSphere Commerce environment, you can configure clustering. Clustering provides failover protection and workload balancing.
This topic describes how to use the WAS ND clustering mechanism.
WebSphere Commerce configures a WebSphere Application Server stand alone profile for each WCS instance that is created. To cluster WebSphere Commerce machines create a WebSphere Application Server deployment manager profile. If you install WAS ND on the same node as WebSphere Commerce, the hardware requirements will be greater than if the node only runs WebSphere Commerce.
This topic covers the following types of clustering for WebSphere Commerce:
For more information about clustering, see to WebSphere Application Server documentation.