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Plan application deployment
Before you deploy applications on WebSphere eXtreme Scale, review the hardware and software requirements, networking and tuning settings, deployment configurations, and so on. You can also use the operational checklist to ensure that the environment is ready to have an application deployed.
For a discussion of the best practices that you can use when you are designing the WebSphere eXtreme Scale applications, read the following article on developerWorks: Principles and best practices for building high performing and highly resilient WebSphere eXtreme Scale applications.
- Deployment configurations for eXtreme Scale
WebSphere eXtreme Scale can be deployed into two types of environments: local or distributed. The configuration that is necessary depends on the type of deployment environment.- Hardware and software requirements
You are not required to use a specific level of hardware or operating system for WebSphere eXtreme Scale.- Tune performance
To improve performance, consider certain items such as operating system and network tuning, planning for network ports, Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning for WebSphere eXtreme Scale settings, configuring failover, and other tuning topics.- High-availability catalog service
A catalog service is the grid of catalog servers you are using, which retain topology information for all of the containers in the eXtreme Scale environment. The catalog service controls balancing and routing for all clients. To deploy eXtreme Scale as an in-memory database processing space, cluster the catalog service into a grid for high availability.- Operational checklist
Use the operational checklist to prepare the environment for deploying WebSphere eXtreme Scale.