WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, Version 6.1.1
             Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS


What is new in this release

Version 6.1.1 includes new features such as additional supported hardware virtualization environments and a new internal reporting structure.

Version 6.1.1 [Version 6.1.1 and later]

Packaging changes [For z/OS operating system]
Support for 64–bit mode on z/OS servers

If you have z/OS servers that are running in 31–bit mode, you can run a script to convert all of your application servers to 64–bit mode. See Enabling 64–bit mode on all z/OS servers for more information.

New supported hardware virtualization environments
New supported hardware virtualization environments include: Linux Xen on SLES 11 and AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 on POWER5 and POWER6 (Micro-Partitioning) in uncapped mode with shared resource pools. See Supported server virtualization environments for more information. The enablement of uncapped mode with shared resource pools also includes new visualization parameters and log entries. See NodeStatsHistoricCache for more information.
WebSphere® Virtual Enterprise bulletin board
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Version 6.1.1 offers a new bulletin board (BBSON) that is independent of the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment high availability manager. See BBSON bulletin board for more information.
New custom properties

You can use the equalCPUFactor custom property to tell to the dynamic workload manager (DWLM) how to equalize the performance of the servers in a dynamic cluster. See Dynamic cluster custom properties for more information.

You can use the deactivate.checkRoutingRules and uninstall.checkRoutingRules custom properties if you do not want the uninstallation or deactivation of an application edition to occur when routing policy work classes are still routing workload to the application edition. See Application edition manager custom properties for more information.

You can use the son.FailNeighborAfterLostkHeartbeats and son.NeighborHeartbeatPeriod custom properties to manage the intervals at which heartbeats are sent to neighbor processes. See Internal state reporting custom properties for more information.

You can use the destroyStatisticCacheDelay custom property to specify how long a delay occurs between when WebSphere Virtual Enterprise detects zero active sessions in the administrative console and when the statistic cache is destroyed. See Runtime operations custom properties for more information.

New BBSON bulletin board

WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Version 6.1.1 offers a new bulletin board service overly network (BBSON) that is independent of the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment high availability manager. See BBSON bulletin board for more information.

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