1.3 The remainder of this book

The remaining chapters cover the following topics:

Chapter 2, WebSphere on System p and AIX 5 strategies, explores scalability, availability, session management, and maintainability.

Chapter 3, System p platform configuration, provides detailed information about how to configure and manage System p hardware and logical partitions.

Chapter 4, AIX configuration, presents methodologies for AIX system administration and configuration management that can be useful when you set up a standardized operating system image for WebSphere deployment.

Chapter 5, WebSphere Application Server on AIX: under the hood, examines the structure and functionality of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and WebSphere Application Server and explains how they interact with the underlying AIX platform.

Chapter 6, Tuning the IBM Java Virtual Machine, describes the use of tuning parameters that are available on the IBM Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on AIX.

Chapter 7, High availability, clustering and WebSphere, describes methods for implementing high availability and related concepts by using various WebSphere and AIX capabilities together.

Chapter 8, Clustering WebSphere Application Server for performance, explains methods for implementing highly scalable and performant systems using various WebSphere and AIX capabilities.

Chapter 9, AIX 5L and WebSphere XD, discusses how WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) can be optimized in an AIX 5L environment.

Chapter 10, Implementation scenario, presents the details of our lab installation and the configuration methods we used in the development of this book.