Administer clusters and cluster members

Clustering allows you to balance workload distribution and improves the availability and performance of your applications. A cluster is a group of application servers that work together to process client requests. Each application server in the cluster is a member of that cluster.

Note: To use clustering, install WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.

The topics below describe how to use the administrative console to configure and manage clusters and cluster members.

Administer clusters
This topic describes how to configure, modify, and remove clusters in the WebSphere Application Server environment.

Administer cluster members
This topic describes how to configure, modify, and remove cluster members in the WebSphere Application Server environment.

Start and stop clusters
This topic describes how to start and stop clusters.