1. Introduction
2. SWU – Confidentiality Reminder
3. Session Objectives
4. Agenda
5. Why WebSphere XD?
6. Why WebSphere XD?
7. WebSphere XD - On demand on-ramp for WAS, providing extensions to manage and optimize mission critical applications.
8. WebSphere XD –
9. Evaluating your Infrastructure and Applications
10. Evaluating your Network Infrastructure
11. Network Infrastructure
12. Evaluating your applications
13. Application Bottlenecks
14. Why does this matter for WebSphere XD
15. Checklist for Application Assessment
16. Balancing Applications against each other
17. Application Types and XD
18. Admin Staff
19. What’s an SLA?
20. What does QOS mean in practice?
21. There is no silver bullet
22. Where do you start?
23. Best Practices for SLA Determination
24. Customer Scenarios
25. Customer Scenarios
26. The Application Hosting Scenario
27. “Big Retail Conglomerate” scenario
28. “Special Customers” scenario
29. “Occasional Webstorm” scenario
30. Best Practices
31. Migration
32. Testing
33. How many Node Groups?
34. Breaking up a perfectly good application…
35. Keeping the Apps Together
36. But on the other hand…
37. Web and EJB co-location
38. Summary
39. Session Summary