Collectives and zones help define the physical topology,
or locations, of your WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliances.
Creating a collective
For multiple WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliances to be grouped for availability, scalability and management
purposes, you must create a collective.
Creating and modifying zones
You can use zones to specify a physical location of your
appliance. This physical location might be two different areas of
a power grid within the same data center, or appliances that are in
completely different data centers, perhaps in different parts of the
country.
Configuring multi-master replication between collectives
Multi-master replication is a technique
for ensuring continuous availability across multiple deployment environments.
By establishing collective links between the catalog servers in your
collectives, you can asynchronously replicate data between data grids
in two different collectives.