Product overview

WebSphere® Application Server Hypervisor Edition Intelligent Management Pack extends WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, using service level management to provide an enhanced quality of service in dynamic operations and extended manageability.

What is WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Intelligent Management Pack?

WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition Intelligent Management Pack provides application server virtualization, resource management, and a host of advanced operational facilities, such as performance visualization, health management, and application editions. This combination of capabilities is sometimes referred to collectively as dynamic operations. Dynamic operations is the core functionality that provides application virtualization, application server virtualization, and application infrastructure virtualization.

The product introduces application server virtualization and automation. A virtualized infrastructure redefines the traditional concepts of Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) resources and applications, and their relationships with each other. This new infrastructure facilitates the product's ability to automate operations, thereby simplifying complex configurations.

Intelligent Management Pack is included in the preinstalled WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition virtual image on WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance Version 2.0 when you enable the separate license for Intelligent Management Pack. The following list provides the supported virtualization technologies:
  • VMware ESX with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 32-bit
  • VMware ESX with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • IBM PowerVM with IBM AIX 6.1.3
  • IBM z/VM with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for 390 64-bit
For more information, see The preinstalled IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition virtual images in the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance Information Center.

Centralized workload management and health policy support has been added for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) servers and support expanded for other application servers including workload management, application provisioning, health management, and additional administration features. This support enables a more consistent approach to achieving service levels and health policies for a heterogeneous set of application servers. To improve overall operations of complex systems, the centralized installation manager reduces installation and maintenance efforts. With health monitoring policies, you can determine which situations to monitor and the actions to take when a specific situation occurs.

Intelligent Management Pack represents on demand capabilities in an extended environment. Use the product to enhance operational efficiency by deploying dynamic operations, service high-volume transactional workloads with linear scalability and near 100% availability, or manage large scale, continuously available WebSphere Application Server environments.

[For z/OS operating system] Restriction: The product does not support Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) features on the z/OS® operating system.