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Because your environment consists of more than just the WebSphere V6 components, you have to consider also other services and their availability.
We found that the scenario shown in Figure 9-15 is a typical topology. To provide high availability, there are some services outside of WAS, located on a platform-specific cluster. In this scenario it is the Database, LDAP, and IBM WebSphere MQ.
Even though the Deployment Manager does not necessarily have to be highly available, we placed it on the existing cluster. As mentioned in 9.3, Deployment Manager high availability, this is nice to have but not a must.
Figure 9-15 Typical example of a real life environment
In such an environment, you have to be aware of some general configuration topics. As you connect to remote systems, there are some settings, regarding time-outs or retry intervals, that have to be set correctly. These settings are covered in this section.
