WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment fundamentals

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) is the base foundation platform for the IBM BPM portfolio of products including WPS and WESB. Network deployment provides the scalability, availability, performance, and maintainability that is generally required of a production environment. In network deployment, a group of servers can be used collaboratively to provide workload balancing and failover. The servers are managed centrally, using a single administrative console. Following are some of the key concepts to understand the WPS (and WESB) topologies.

Cells

Cell is a logical grouping of nodes that is centrally managed and has access to shared resources. Nodes within a cell typically run one or more applications that are similar in terms of business requirements or non-functional requirements.

Nodes

Node is a managed container for one or more application servers, for the purpose of configuration and operational management...