IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance is
a purpose-built appliance that is optimized for cost-efficient, rapid,
drop-in caching for WebSphere applications.
Benefits
With
DataPower XC10
Appliance, you can experience
the following benefits:
- Easy scale-out
- DataPower XC10
Appliance contains
a 160 GB elastic data grid that
you can use to host data for your business-critical applications.
To add more memory to your data grid,
you can add another appliance to your configuration, creating a collective
of appliances that host your data.
- Drop-in use without code changes
- You can use DataPower XC10
Appliance without
extensive changes to the code in your applications. You can use the
appliance in the following drop-in scenarios:
- Session management for HTTP requests
- WebSphere Application
Server dynamic cache support
- Fault tolerance
- The data in your data grids is automatically replicated, which lowers the risk of
data loss.
- Flexible and simple user management
- With the user interface, you can easily manage users and user
groups for your appliance. You can also use the user interface to
create, manage, and monitor your data grids.
High-level topology
DataPower XC10
Appliance sits behind your
application server tier. In your application server tier, you install
the
WebSphere eXtreme
Scale Client on each node,
including your deployment manager. This client enables your application
server tier to communicate with the appliance tier. In the appliance
tier, you can associate the appliances together to form a collective.
Figure 1. High-level topology