IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Hypervisor Edition is a self-contained virtual machine image that contains a guest operating system and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 8.5. You can run the virtual image on VMware ESX or ESXi hypervisors.
Virtual images run on a hypervisor, which is the virtualization technology that manages the state of virtual images. A hypervisor product can run on top of a host operating system, or the hypervisor can run as the operating system itself, such as VMware ESX. Some hypervisors also handle load balancing and failover.
By deploying virtual images on VMware and other virtualization technologies, you can consolidate servers and streamline your environments.
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 can function either as stand-alone or with IBM Workload Deployer. Workload Deployer is a hardware appliance that provides access to software virtual images and patterns.
Using IBM Workload Deployer, you can instantiate patterns that use the WebSphere Hypervisor Edition images and offer self-service deployments of those patterns.
Using IBM Workload Deployer or IBM PureApplication Systems, you can create cluster topologies using WebSphere Hypervisor Edition images.
The virtual image can be used as a demonstration, a development system, or a simple quality assurance system. A single virtual image can also be a single production system for a small department.
Image name | Requirements |
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WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 32bit | Requires IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher and IBM Workload Deployer VMware Requirements. Stand-alone requires VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 or higher. |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 for Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 64bit | IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher, IBM Workload Deployer VMware requirements and VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 or higher |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 32bit | IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher and IBM Workload Deployer VMware requirements. Stand-alone requires VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 or higher. |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 (32bit or 64bit) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 64bit | IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher, IBM Workload Deployer VMware requirements and VMware ESX and ESXi 4.1 or higher. |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 for IBM AIX® | Requires IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher and IBM Workload Deployer PowerVM™ requirements. |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 for Novell SLES on System z® | Requires IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher and IBM Workload Deployer zVM requirements. |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Version 8.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z | Requires IBM Workload Deployer 3.1.0.2 or higher and IBM Workload Deployer zVM requirements. |
Profile Type | Description | Applicable to Version 6.1 | Applicable to Version 7.0, 8.0, and 8.5 |
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Application server | Create a stand-alone application server profile. | Yes | Yes |
Custom profile | Create a custom profile that belongs to a deployment manager cell. This profile can make applications available to the Internet or to an intranet under the management of the deployment manager. You must federate this node. | Yes | Yes |
Deployment manager | Create a deployment manager that provides management capability for multiple federated nodes. The nodes and the deployment manager make up a cell. | Yes | Yes |
Job manager | Create a job manager that provides a single console to administer multiple base servers, multiple deployment managers, and do asynchronous job submission. | No | Yes |
Administrative agent + n application server profiles | Create an administrative agent that provides a single interface to administer multiple unfederated application servers. | No | Yes |
Liberty profile server | Create a Liberty profile server that is located on the panel between the deployment manager and the job manager. | No | 8.5 only |
IBM HTTP Server | Create an IBM HTTP Server profile. When the IBM HTTP Server profile is selected on the blue screens, SLES init.d services is created and started by default for the IBM HTTP Server and adminserver. | Yes | Yes |