© 2015 IBM Corporation

Session # AAI-5630

Competitive Comparison: WebSphere Application Server and Liberty Profilevs.

Tomcat, JBoss and WebLogic

Roman KharkovskiIBM, Executive IT Specialistkharkovski@us.ibm.com

Leverages 100+ OSS Packages

Leverages 100+ OSS Packages

Leverages 30OSS Packages

Leverages 40+ OSS Packages

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IBM contributes to 350+ OSS projects

More than 3000 IBM developers involved in OSS projects

IBM leads 80+ OSS projects

Source: Gartner, Market Share Analysis: Enterprise Software Market Share, Worldwide. Published March , 2014World-wide ranking based on 2013 total software revenue according to Gartner

2013 ($B)

YTY growth rank share growth rank share growth rank share growth

BPM 2.49 5.6% # 1 28.6% 4% # 4 8% 0.2% # 27 0.1% 37.3%

ESB 2.56 4.4% # 1 29.2% 5.2% # 2 23.1% 0.7% # 16 0.4% 12.6%

MOM 1.43 6.1% # 1 66.7% 0.6% - - - # 10 0.2% 14.4%

MFT Suites 0.6 9.2% # 1 34.4% 9.1% - - - - - -

TP Monitors 1.85 -7.5% # 1 81.7% -9.2% # 2 10.8% -6.4% - - -

Appliances AIM 0.12 -6.5% # 1 59.5% 6.4% - - - - -

B2B 0.85 8.9% # 1 18.8% 12% - - - - - -

App Servers 4.84 9.7% # 2 29.1% 6.4% # 1 37.7% 2.9% # 5 2.4% 15.3%

Portals 1.8 2.6% # 2 26.9% 3.6% # 3 21.2% -4.7% # 7 1.7% 11.3%

Svc Governance 0.51 14.4% # 2 12.7% 6.9% # 1 12.8% -12% - -

Other AIM 4.47 7.1% # 6 2.4% 62.3% # 15 0.8% -0.4% # 28 0.2% 9.4%

According to Gartner, IBM holds #1 position in the middleware software for the past 12 years

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Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application PlatformsDaniel Sholler, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Jess Thompson, Ross AltmanJune 27, 2013

This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire URL

“New and composite on-premises applications need a complex array of runtime technologies and development capabilities.”

Source: Gartner (June 2013)

IBM named a leader in the Magic Quadrant for On-Premises Application Platforms

What is new in Liberty Profile

2H’2014

Improved performance, security, etc. Auto Scaling Partial Java EE 7 (Servlet 3.1, WebSocket 1.0, Concurrency 1.0, JSON-P 1.0) Improved v2v and competitive Migration Toolkit Web-based SSO for applications with OpenID 2.0 Support for CouchDB REST connector for non-Java clients Support for Enterprise Web Services (JSR 109 MR) A number of beta features (SIP, JMS 2.0, JAX-RS 2.0, JDBC 4.1, JPA 2.1,

Batch, WebRTC, bean validation 1.1, EJB 3.2 lite, Java 8 toleration, etc.) and more…

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2015

WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile v9 with Java EE7 (beta) Java SE 8 Log collector and analytics (beta) Improved Admin Center (tagging, searching, monitoring, scalability, config) Improved developer tools (remote debugger, repository integration) SPNEGO (beta) No-charge Liberty Base for production (up to 2GB Java heap per organization) “2 for 1” licenses for 6 months on SoftLayer Improved support for BlueMix

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RAM usage 143 MB 169 MB 103 MB 99 MB 423 MB 379 MB 204 MB 304 MB

Disk footprint 65 MB 1.4 GB 21 MB 8 MB 225 MB 588 MB 164 MB 131 MB

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# of config files 1 100+ 7 32 9 20+ 20+ 20+

IDE Good Advanced Basic Basic Good Advanced Good Good

Configuration editor Advanced None None None None None None None

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Java EE 6Java EE 7 beta beta SOD

Java EE Web profile 7 in beta 7 in beta TomEE (2) (11)Java SE 6 and 7 (JVM) 8 in beta 8 in beta 8 in SOD (1) (1) (1)

Servlet, JSP, JSF MyFaces JSF*JDBC

Java Persistence API (JPA) OpenJPA (7)Java Message Service (JMS) (6) 2.0 in beta ActiveMQ* (5) (9)

Java Transaction API (JTA) Geronimo* (7) (10)Bean validation Bval* (7)

Java Management Extensions (JMX) (3) (7)Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) (6) CXF* (7)

Context Dependency Injection (CDI) OpenWebBeans* (7)Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) CXF* (7)

OSGi Equinox* (7) WildFlyEJB lite TomEE OpenEJB (7)EJB full beta 3.2 in beta (7)

WebSocket (7)JSON Jersey(4) (7)Oauth Oltu Amber* (7)

Concurrent API 3rd party* (7) (8)Batch API beta beta 3rd party* Spring Batch (8)

JNDI (13) (13)SAML (6) (6) PicketLink* (7)

WS-Notification (6) (6) 3rd party* (7)WS-Transactions (6) (6) 3rd party* (7) (10)

WS-Policy (6) (6) CXF* (7)WS-Trust (6) (6) CXF* (7)

WS-ReliableMessaging (6) (6) CXF* (7)Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (6) beta 3rd party* (7) (8)

Portlet API dev only dev only JetSpeed* (7) (8)WS-Addressing (6) (6) CXF* (7)

RMI-IIOP (6) SOD 3rd party* (7)Java Connector Architecture (JCA) (6) 1.7 in beta Geronimo* (7)

Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) (12) (7)JACC and JASPIC beta beta Geronimo* (7)

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WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit

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SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark results

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SPEC and SPECjEnterprise 2010 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 02/18/2015 IBM SPECjEnterprise results mentioned are 1013.40 EjOPS, 1194.80 EjOPS, 1813.37 EjOPS, 2341.12 EjOPS, 3694.35 EJOPS, 6295.46 EjOPS, 9696.43 EjOPS, 19282.14 EjoPS, 12,066.73 EjOPS, 13,161.07 EjOPS and 22,543.34 EjOPS published on Jan 2 2010, Feb 25 2010, Apr 27 2010, Jun 20 2011, Jun 17 2011, Apr 26 2012, Nov 14 2012, Feb 18, 2015, Mar 6 2013, Apr 22 2013 and Apr 22, 2014 respectively

IBM is a world leader in enterprise performance

• WAS beats WebLogic by 31% and retains Industry leadership on per core SPECjEnterprise2010 Benchmark results on latest Intel Haswell EP Processors

• WAS leads WebLogic both on per core and per processor performance on Haswell EP

IBM is a world leader in enterprise performance

• WAS 8.5.5.4 outperforms WL 12.1.3 by 31% on per core basis and retains Industry leadership on SPECjEnterprise2010 Benchmark results published on latest Intel Haswell EP Processors

• WAS leads on per Processor performance as well beating WL 12.1.3 on the latest Intel Haswell EP processors as per results published on SPEC

Websphere Application Server on POWER8

• Exploit significant parallelism offered by POWER8

• Exploit transactional memory• Reduce virtualization overhead with PowerVM

• Exploit faster networking and storage capabilities

• Improve security workload performance• Exploit larger cache including L4 cache

WAS Exploitation of Different Hardware Architectures (SPARC vs. Power)

IBM WebSphere 12 years of performance leadership

SPECjEnterprise2010

(1) SPEC and SPECjEnterprise2010 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 04/04/2013 Oracle SUN SPARC T5-8 449 EjOPS/core SPECjEnterprise2010 (Oracle's WLS best SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS/core result on SPARC). IBM Power730 823 EjOPS/core (World Record SPECjEnterprise2010 EJOPS/core result), (2) Results from www.spec.org as of 04/29/2012 Oracle SUN SPARC T4-4 313 EjOPS/core SPECjEnterprise2010 (Oracle's WLS best SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS/core result on SPARC). IBM Power780 681 EjOPS/core (World Record SPECjEnterprise2010 EJOPS/core result), (3) Results from www.spec.org as of 11/14/2012 Oracle SUN Fire X4170M3 519.39 EjOPS/core SPECjEnterprise2010 (Oracle's WLS best SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS/core result on Sandy Bridge). IBM WAS 8.5 System x3650 M4 Intel Sandy Bridge EjOPS/core (World Record SPECjEnterprise2010 EJOPS/core result) (4) Results from www.spec.org as of 04/29/2012 Oracle SUN Blade Server X6270 M2 452.285 EjOPS/core SPECjEnterprise2010). IBM Websphere HS 22 Blade 524.621 EjOPS/core.

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IBM held the most records in ECPerf and was FIRST to publish SPECj2001, SPECj2002, SPECj2004, SPECjEnterprise2010

WAS is 32% faster per core on latest Intel Haswell at half the cost compared to WebLogic1

On latest Intel Haswell processors WAS has the fastest per socker, per core and biggest total EjOPS result compared to WebLogic2

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WAS 8.5.5.2 on Power8 (Apr'14) 939.31 1.76 2.05 2.09 1.81 2.08 3.00 3.15WAS 8.5.5 on Power7+ (Apr'13) 822.57 1.55 1.80 1.83 1.58 1.82 2.63 2.75WAS 8.5 on x3650 x86 (Nov'12) 606.03 1.14 1.33 1.35 1.17 1.34 1.93 2.03WAS 8.5 on Power7+ (Sep'12) 681.39 1.28 1.49 1.52 1.31 1.51 2.17 2.28

WAS 8.5 on HS22 blade x86 (Apr'12) 524.62 0.99 1.15 1.17 1.01 1.16 1.67 1.76WAS 8.5 on HS22 blade x86 (Jul'11) 307.86 0.58 0.67 0.69 0.59 0.68 0.98 1.03

WAS 8.5 on HS22 blade x86 (Jun'11) 292.64 0.55 0.64 0.65 0.56 0.65 0.93 0.98

1 even result>1 IBM advantage<1 Oracle advantage

More recent results

More recent

Benchmark results

SPECjEnterprise2010 Comparison of IBM WAS ND vs. Oracle WLS Enterprise: $ cost per JOPS starting from 2011 W

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WAS 8.5 on HS22 blade x86 (Apr'12) $244 0.54 0.63 1.03 0.82 0.72 1.00WAS 8.5 on HS22 blade x86 (Jul'11) $168 0.78 0.91 1.50 1.19 1.04 1.46

WAS 8.5 on HS22 blade x86 (Jun'11) $108 1.21 1.42 2.33 1.85 1.62 2.27

More recent

More recent results

More details: http://whywebsphere.com/2013/10/11/ibm-still-delivers-more-performance-at-lower-cost-response-to-the-oracles-latest-misleading-performance-claims/

CloudFoundry based PaaS from IBM

Run Your AppsThe developer can chose any language runtime or bring their own. Just upload your code and go.

DevOpsDevelopment, testing, monitoring, deployment and logging tools allow the developer to run the entire application

APIs and ServicesA catalog of open source, IBM and third party APIs services allow a developer to stitch together an application in minutes.

Cloud IntegrationBuild hybrid environments. Connect to on-premises systems of record plus other public and private clouds. Expose your own APIs to your developers.

Extend SaaS AppsDrop in SaaS App SDKs and extend to new use cases (e.g,. Mobile, Analytics, Web)

IBM BlueMix

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Easily deploy, manage and move enterprise applications without change across Hybrid clouds

• New support for Docker and Chef with Patterns for 10x faster deployments and scaling, workload portability and access to pre-built applications

• Enhanced security and performance for data and application access across hybrid environments

• New support for bring your own hardware and enhanced support for off-premises cloud environments to seamlessly deploy and manage enterprise applications without changes

PureApplication

Appliance SoftLayer BYOH

IBM Application Platform: PureApplication v2.1

IBM PureApplication System business value

9612 hrs

Deployment

Change Management

Security Management

Asset Management

Incident/capacity Mgmt

0

10000

5000

Do It Yourself PureApplication System Pre-integrated Competitor

Coalition Competitor

5815 hrs

153% More

4843 hrs

110% More

Labor Hours Spent*

2302 hrs

*Note: Coalition competitor used 9 competitor blades (144 cores). Pre-Integrated competitor used 18 pre-integrated nodes (288 cores). IBM PureApplication System used 3 nodes (96 cores). Each system has the capacity to run 72 workloads where each workload can sustain a peak throughput of 1720 page elements per second.

The labor savings and assumptions herein are estimates based on a labor model that uses data obtained on the percentage of time customers spend on certain IT life cycle tasks. It is not a benchmark. As such, actual customer results will vary based on customer applications, differences in stack deployed and other systems variations as well as actual configuration, applications, specific queries and other variables in a production environment.

76% Savings

How does PureApplication System do this? - pre-integrated management - patterns of expertise

IBM Pattern Engine Virtual Application Builder

Drag assets onto the canvas to define application and related resources

Define cross-component links and add policies; respond to warning messages to build well-formed applications

Specify configuration details for components, policies, and links

These patterns can run on-premise or on the IBM SoftLayer cloud

WAS deployment options

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On-Premises Public IaaS Public PaaS

Do It Yourself

Business as usual (can use with IBM UrbanCode Deploy, Chef, Puppet, etc.)

BYOL or pay by the hour on SoftLayer, Azure, Amazon EC2 (can use with IBM UrbanCode Deploy, Chef, Puppet)

Liberty Buildpack for 3rd party PaaS (Cloud Foundry, OpenShift)

PureApplication System

PureApplication System appliance, orPureApplication Software (BYOH)

n/aPureApp System on the SoftLayer or 3rd party cloud

BlueMix BlueMix Local n/aBlueMix Shared, orBlueMix Dedicated

Management options

Pros Cons

Manual editing of files

• Easy to understand • Best for development use

• Not reliable – user can make typos and break configuration, leading to costly outages

• Time consuming when managing more than 1 server

• No auditing, limited security• Not recommended for production

Administrative GUI

• Easy to understand• Auditing and security provided• Configuration consistency checks• Some group operations supported• Best for development use

• Often requires repetition of commands to be applied to multiple servers

• Despite configuration consistency checks and input validation, manual keystrokes and mouse clicks may lead to errors and downtime in production

• Not recommended for production

Command Line Script

• Repeatable and predictable (no user input is needed, no typos, no wrong mouse clicks)

• Can automate management of large configurations by iterating over resource lists (no need to manually repeat steps)

• Best for production use

• Can be difficult to learn and master• High overhead for development use

Problem determination tools bundled with WAS

IBM Support Assistant (part of WAS) JBoss / Tomcat

Smart performance analyzer and advisor Not available

Dump analyzer - hang, crash, memory management Oracle JDK (optional $)

Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer - memory usage and performance Need 3rd party ($)

Memory Analyzer – Troubleshoot memory leaks and excessive heap consumption Oracle JDK (optional $)

Health Center – Real time monitoring of running virtual machines Need 3rd party ($)

IBM Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java - analyzes Java heap dump Need 3rd party ($)

IBM Trace and Request Analyzer for WAS - Reads WAS and HTTP plug-in traces Not available

Web Server Plug-in Analyzer for WAS – Detects improper plug-in configurations Not available

Database Connection Pool Analyzer for WAS – Troubleshoot JDBC connection pools Not available

Log Analyzer - Correlate logs from different products, get fix recommendations Not available

Visual Configuration Explorer - Visually explores cross-product configurations Not available

Guided Troubleshooter - Guides you through solving problems Not available

IBM Port Scanning Tool - helps you find potential port conflicts Not available

Processor Time Analysis Tool for Linux - find Java threads that are excessively consuming Linux processor resources

Need 3rd party ($)

And even better than that! …

WebSphere Runtime Performance Advisor

• The Performance and Diagnostic Advisor uses Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data to provide recommendations for performance tuning

• Running in the JVM of the application server, this advisor periodically checks for inefficient settings, and issues recommendations as standard product warning messages in the log file and GUI console

Sample output:Increasing the Web Container thread pool Maximum Size to 48 might improve performance:

- Average number of threads: 48- Configured maximum pool size: 2

This alert has been issued 1 time(s) in a row. The threshold will be updated to reduce the overhead of the analysis.

Tomcat and JBoss do not offer comparable capabilities

WebSphere Console Command AssistanceAutomatic capture of administrative actions and generation of scripts to be replayed later

• While administrator performs actions in the admin GUI (start, stop, deploy, create, etc.) all his actions are automatically written as Jython command script for WAS

• This script can be customized and executed multiple times thus saving time to create complex administrative actions and reducing the learning curve

Tomcat and JBoss do not offer comparable capabilities

How do Red Hat customers really use JBoss AS in production?

• Vast majority of JBoss customers are not using clustering• Must tolerate lower quality of services ($$$)

and• Most JBoss customers purchase 3rd party management tools, monitoring tools,

configuration management tools, performance profilers, etc.• 3rd party tools require license and support payments ($$$)• 3rd party tools are not always in synch with the desired version of JBoss ($$$)• 3rd party vendor viability poses risks ($$$)

and• Most JBoss customers invest significant staff time to build home grown scripting

frameworks for JBoss management (a combination of shell scripting and generation of JBoss XML files using XSLT, Java or other template mechanism)

• Cost to develop, debug, maintain such scripts can be significant ($$$)• New versions of JBoss (major or minor) are not 100% backwards compatible,

causing significant rework of home grown scripts and tools ($$$)

• WAS ND provides all needed administrative tools out of the box at no extra cost

”One minute of system downtime can cost an organization anywhere from $2,500 to $10,000 per minute. Using that metric, even 99.9 data availability can cost a company $5 million a year” - The Standish Group

IBM Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer (GCMV)

GCMV provides analysis and views of your applications verbose gc output. GCMV uses a powerful statistical analysis engine which provides tuning recommendations in these areas:

• Memory Leak Detection• Detect Java heap exhaustion and memory leaks• Detect "native" (malloc) heap exhaustion and memory leaks

• Optimizing garbage collection performance• Analyze output from different gc modes (optthruput, optavgpause, gencon, balanced )• Compare output from multiple logs – side by side• Determine gc overhead, detect long or frequent gc cycles and causes• Recommend settings to avoid long or frequent gc cycles• Recommend optimum gc policy

• Fine tuning of Java heap size• Determine peak and average memory usage• Recommend Java heap settings

• Flexible user interface makes it possible to carry out further analysis of the data and to "drill down" into the causes of trends and export of data into .csv or jpeg

Oracle Java Mission Control (JMC) is free for development use only.JMC does provide data visualization, but it does not make tuning recommendations, nor does it compare various run results side by side. This is a major usability issue.

IBM WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit (PTT)

PTT is designed to help users tune the performance of WAS using statistical technology. The toolkit collects performance data and consolidates it into a multidimensional data cube.

• Find potential performance problems• PTT shows detailed status of system with easily understood charts and forms. Users can

analyze the performance data from various perspectives. • PTT helps to find an error as soon as it occurs - monitor the servlet errors, transaction rollback,

transaction timeout, JDBC connection timeout, thread hung, etc.

• Accelerate performance tuning process• User can tune many servers in one step in a centralized view by running tuning scripts within the

workbench, download or upload performance related settings manually or via script

• Health Check• PTT can detect the performance decline and take actions automatically based on predefined

rules. Rule engine detects the abnormal symptoms according to user defined rules (with ability to create and edit existing rules)

• Operations to facilitate problems determination• PTT can generate thread dump and heap dump for the JVM, enable trace settings, extract the

connection pool contents

• Report engine• Online and offline analysis and reporting (generate, export and print report)

Those using WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat must spend considerably more effort finding all the right tuning variables. In these products the monitoring data is scattered across multiple locations in the Admin GUIs or worse – only available for custom JMX programs

IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health CenterHealth Center is a diagnostic tool for monitoring the status of a running JVM. It uses a small amount of processor time and memory, and can open some log and trace files for analysis:

• Monitoring a running Java application or recorded activity for offline analysis• Very low performance overhead allows to connect to and monitor a live Java application (or

replay recorded activity), such as CPU, environment, IO, gc, locking, threads, memory, method tracing with timings, etc.

• Save data from a monitored Java application, then reload the saved data later on, without making a live connection. You can load data from multiple files by loading one file, then appending more files.

• Viewing the data collected• Displays the data collected using different views (graphical and tabular)

• Triggering dumps• Trigger the JVM to generate System Dumps, Heap Dumps, and Java Dumps

• Troubleshooting• The first step in troubleshooting is to view the log files that are produced by the Health Center

client and agent. Then read the information provided for some of the common problems that you might encounter.

• Performance hints• The Health Center agent has little effect on performance. You can improve the performance of

the Health Center client by reducing the amount of data collected or displayed.

• You can use the Health Center API to write your own code for manipulating Health Center data

Documentation – order of magnitude difference in quality

InfoCenter – world class, up to dateRedbooks – unique and comprehensivedeveloperWorks - implementation tipsISA – electronic support search tool3rd party – sites, blogs, etc.User forums – self help

JBoss docs – limited and inconsistent, lags in timeJBoss wikis – lots of old confusing infoUser forums – no longer monitored by developers

WAS ND – Intelligent Management

Intelligent Routing and SLA

Enforcement

Application Edition

Management

Better TCO through management efficiency and performance, Intelligent Management delivers the ability to sense and respond quickly to changes

Up to

45% less hardware

Source: Based on 60+ Operations Optimization Value Assessments done to date by IBM for real customersCost reductions are compared to traditional WAS ND deployment

Server Health Management

SLA based Dynamic

Clustering

Up to

90% fewer outages

Up to

60% less administration

Up to

45% less software

Part of WAS ND V8.5.0+ and WAS for zAdded Liberty Profile (assisted lifecycle subset) in V8.5.5.1

Dynamic clustering

IBM WAS ND 8.5.5 JBoss EAP 6.3

New node is added to a cell

If node meets the dynamic selection criteria, it is automatically added to the dynamic cluster as potential host for the JVM

Static cluster member must be manually defined for each participating node and manually added to the static cluster.

Vertical stacking (VS)

If VS is allowed, JVM process definitions are automatically created for each node

Cluster members must be manually created and port conflict resolution must be manually done for each new JVM

Cluster isolationDynamic cluster can belong to different isolation groups and conflicts are automatically resolved

Manual work is required to prevent conflicts between JVMs that must be isolated from each other

Workload increaseIf workload increases for the application, new members of dynamic cluster are started to accommodate such increased workload

Manual start of cluster members is required to accommodate increase in workload

Workload decrease

When workload drops off, members of dynamic clusters may be stopped if CPU or memory are required for other workloads. Lazy application start can be configured

Manual stop of instances is required to free up resources for other workloads. Application must always be up and running to accept workload

Critical load and resource shortage

When overall workload is greater than the system can handle, service policies are enforced such that more important applications get priority over less important ones and SLA policies for response times are met. SLAs can be defined based on a rule set based on URI, time, user properties, IP, etc.

No provision for prioritization of workload, no SLAs for applications. Typical solution is to create duplication by using dedicated hosts (physical or virtual) for each workload, which increases admin complexity, hardware and software cost

Server propertiesServer template can be updated and changes are reflected on all members of dynamic cluster automatically

Properties must be updated on each member of the static cluster manually

Intelligent routing - ODR capability (part of WAS ND)

WASND F5 + JBoss

SLA enforcement: prioritizes requests based on capacity and conditions Yes No

Support of dynamic clusters of application servers based on service policies Yes No

Application edition-aware routing and continuous availability during updates Yes No

CPU and heap overload protection Yes No

Dynamically adjusts server weights based upon server's load Yes Yes

Performs HTTP session re-balancing Yes No

Reacts to server starts and stops without retries Yes No

Static file serving and in-memory and disk page caching Yes* No

Records server load for analytics and chargeback Yes No

* - WASND ships with (1) Proxy Server and (2) DMZ Secure Proxy and (3) IBM HTTP Server

Intelligent routing - ODR capability (part of WAS ND)

WASND F5 + JBoss

Automatic session cookie configuration recognition Yes No

Health policies for application servers resulting in automatic corrective actions Yes No

Node maintenance mode for OS and middleware updates Yes No

Server maintenance mode for live application problem determination Yes No

Manageable via health policies Yes No

Automatically adjusts retry interval on connect failures Yes ?

Very quickly routes around slow or hung servers Yes ?

Custom logging Yes F5 - ?

Custom error page handling Yes F5 - ?

Rule expression and custom routing (IP addresses, form data, etc.) Yes ?

SSL termination Yes Yes

Compression Yes Yes

The history of Red Hat and JBoss messaging

JBoss AS v3

2002 2006

JBossMQ

JBoss AS v5

JBoss Messaging

2009JBoss AS 6

HornetQ

2013JBoss

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ActiveMQ

Red Hat MRG2008

Apache Qpid

* - New Red Hat “strategic” messaging is described to be a REWRITE and a combination of “best ideas” from Apache Qpid + Red Hat HornetQ + Apache ActiveMQ

2015 NEW* ?

No migration path ?No migration path No migration path

Platforms Support – Important Factor for J2EE serverWAS WebLogic JBoss EAP

X86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 Asianux 3

Ubuntu 12, 14 Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Liberty Dev.

SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11, 12 Windows 2008, 2012, Vista, 7, 8 2008, 2012

Solaris 10, 11 RISC Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 7

SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9 AIX 6, 7

IBM i 6, 7 HP-UX 11 (Itanium)

Inspur K-UX (Itanium) Solaris 10, 11 (SPARC)

z/Series Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9

z/OS

Migration issues with JBoss

• Upgrade path for JBoss is manual• Manually copy configuration files and applications to new installation

• Backwards compatibility broken between JBoss v4.x, v5, v6• JBoss EAP v4, v5 and v6 releases have been disruptive and changed many

properties and configuration files, scripting commands, etc.

• Automated migration for WAS• Migration tool provided as part of WAS installation media• J2EE 1.4 version of DayTrader successfully migrated from WAS 6.1 to 7 using

migration tool• Backwards compatibility maintained for two prior releases

These issues result in increased administration costs when using JBoss because of lost productivity related to unnecessary software development.

WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit

• No Charge plugins for Eclipse and RADRule sets for multiple source / destination combinations (e.g. WLS->WAS, etc.):

(a) The tool scans Java source code, JSP files and deployment descriptors and identifies the changes required (allows for Java upgrade also).

(b) The tool scans server configuration files (looking for Datasources, servers, JMS settings, etc.) and generates appropriate Liberty or WAS configuration.

In most cases the toolkit is capable of making the application changes itself. After the “scan” and “conversion” are done the toolkit generates report on the results of the migration and any manual migration tasks (if required).

• Free migration RedBook and developerWorks articles on migration

• No Charge Migration Assessment Workshop for qualified customers

Now easier then ever before to migrate your applications to WebSphere Application Server

(1) Liberty Profile or (2) WAS v7, v8, v8.5, v8.5.5

WebSphere Migration Toolkit(Eclipse and RAD plugins)

WAS 5.1 – 8.x

WebLogicOracle OC4J (OAS)

Tomcat

IBM migration tools and offerings: http://whywebsphere.com/?s=migration

(a) Java, JSP source and DDs(b) Server configuration objects

JBoss

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WebSphere Application Server Migration ToolkitThe Migration tool in action…

Analysis Type

Rule CategoriesRuleResult Options

Rule Results

Analysis History

Analysis Results

Help Contents

WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit and Tomcat plus Liberty Technology Preview plugins

From To

LibertyConfigMigration

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WASApplication Migration

JBoss 4.X – 5.x Liberty 8.5.5 orCloudFoundry / Bluemix

Java EE5 and prior versions Liberty 8.5.5 orCloudFoundry / Bluemix

4.X – 5.x 7.0 - 8.5.5

Java EE5 and prior versions 7.0 – 8.5.5

Tomcat 7.X Liberty 8.5.5

6.0 or 7.0 Liberty 8.5.5 orCloudFoundry / Bluemix

N/A 6.0 or 7.0 7.0 - 8.5.5

WebLogic 6.X – 11.x Liberty 8.5.5 orCloudFoundry / Bluemix

Java EE5 and prior versions Liberty 8.5.5 orCloudFoundry / Bluemix

6.X – 11.x 7.0 - 8.5.5

Java EE5 and prior versions 7.0 – 8.5.5

OAS N/A Java EE5 and prior versions Liberty 8.5.5 orCloudFoundry / Bluemix

N/A Java EE5 and prior versions 7.0 – 8.5.5

WAS N/A 7.0 - 8.5.5 Liberty 8.5.5 or CloudFoundry / Bluemix

N/A 5.1 – 8.x 7.0 - 8.5.5

Java (JDK) N/A 1.4, 5.0, 6.0 6.0 or 7.0

N/A 1.4, 5.0, 6.0 6.0 or 7.0

Liberty IBM WAS

IBM WAS ND

Tomcat (free)

Pivotal tc Server

JBoss EAP

Java EE 7 beta sod sod 2015

Java EE 6

Java EE 6 Web Profile TomEE JSP/Servlet

JDK 1.6 and 1.7 3rd party ($) 3rd party ($) RHEL only

Messaging provider 3rd party ($) RabbitMQ

Transaction management and recovery 3rd party ($)

Admin GUI

Admin scripting and APIs

Secure audit of administrative actions

SLA enforcement and monitoring for requests beta

Dynamic clustering and auto-scaling *

Application versioning

Automated health management policies and actions

WW production support (local language, local hours)

Troubleshooting and problem determination tools 3rd party ($)

EJB and JMS clustering and failover

HTTPSession failover

Dynamic configuration updates (avoid restarts)

Performance

Lightweight runtime, small footprint

Simple configuration files

Private cloud IPAS IPAS IPAS OpenShift

Public cloud BlueMix IPAS IPAS OpenShift

Free sw included (WLM, HTTPD, LDAP, DBMS) 3rd party ($) 3rd party ($)

Platform certifications (OS, HW, DBMS, Adapters) 3rd party ($) subset of x86

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Monitoring and diagnostic tools?Management and

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User and administrative security?

Minimize License and support cost (TCA)?

OS and DB support?

Documentation and best practices?

PaaS?

Minimize TCO

Time to market?

BlueMixLiberty WAS WAS

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Average cost of downtime per industry

Industry segment Cost per Hour

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Energy $ 2.8

Telecommunications $ 2.1

Manufacturing $ 1.6

Financial $ 1.5

Information Technology $ 1.4

Insurance $ 1.2

Retail $ 1.1

Pharmaceuticals $ 1.1

Banking $ 1.0

Consumer Products $ 0.8

Chemicals $ 0.7

Transportation $ 0.7

Sources: ITG Value Proposition for Siebel Enterprise Applications, Business case for IBM System z & Robert Frances Group

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<10%• Software license & subscription costs1

• Hardware and networking costs• Downtime costs (planned and unplanned)• Upgrades cost• SLA penalties• Deployment cost• Operational support cost (day to day operations)• Performance costs• Cost of selection of the vendor software• Requirements analysis cost• Developer, admin and end-user training cost• Application design and development costs• Cost of integration with other systems• Quality, user acceptance and other testing costs• Application enhancements and bug fixes cost• Replacement costs• Cost of other risks (including security breaches)

90%

(1) Source: http://bit.ly/1yH5oKZ

Free like in beer

• NO CHARGE WebSphere Developer Tools for Eclipse

• NO CHARGE WAS for Developers & Liberty ProfileAvailable at no charge for the developer desktop/laptop – free license + free support for those who have production licenses, and optional fee based support for those who don’t

• NO CHARGE production runtime – Liberty Core for ISVs ISV’s customers can run the app on Liberty Core free of charge without support

• NO CHARGE production – Liberty for up to 1GB on BlueMixLiberty instance for test or production running non-stop

• NO CHARGE production runtime – Liberty for up to 2 GBAny number of instances, so long as sum total Java heap is <=2GB

• NO CHARGE RAD with WAS Tools EditionsAdditional 3% on the cost of WAS provide unlimited supported licenses of RAD and WAS Developer Tools for Eclipse, which can be used in support of the purchased production servers

• LIMITED TIME OFFER - 2-for-1 - for the next 6 monthsCustomer can use as many licenses of WAS or Liberty on the IBM SoftLayer for no charge as they have licenses of WAS on-prem

Flexible licensing options to suit customer needs

• For applications that have uneven workloads over the year the cost of WAS could be minimized by purchasing “pay as you go” licenses for peak periods

• JBoss, tc Server do not have socket, or per user pricing• tc Server, WebLogic and JBoss do not have On-Demand per day pricing

• Example 1: Consider Black Friday or Cyber Money with peak workloads being 10x over any other peak in the year. With WAS you could buy licenses for that one week (using daily charge on Power for hardware and software)! This is like 90% sale on WAS! You don’t get that with IBM competitors

• Example 2: Consider retail chain with 100s of locations. WAS user based license for Liberty Core or Express can be orders of magnitude less than JBoss or tc Server

See additional notes about these pricing options here: http://whywebsphere.com/2013/09/26/software-costs

Core (PVU)

Socket 20 usersUnlimited

license1 hour (cloud)

1 day (Power)

1 month (PVU)

1 month (socket)

1 year (PVU)

WAS Liberty Core 28.25$ n/a 709$ BYOL 25.50$ 1.18$ n/a 11.40$ WAS Express 28.25$ n/a 709$ BYOL 25.42$ 1.18$ n/a 11.40$

WAS Base 57.00$ 14,500$ n/a 0.53$ 51.09$ 2.38$ 604$ 22.80$ WAS ND 214.00$ n/a n/a 1.11$ 191.67$ 8.90$ n/a 88.25$

Pay as you go

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WAS perpetual licenses: 8 socketsWAS monthly licenses: 336IBM 5 year cost = $283K

WAS license + support cost over 5 and 10 years is lower

And it gets better…See additional notes about these pricing options here: http://whywebsphere.com/2013/09/26/software-costs

Without required components With LDAP, JDK and HTTP5 years 10 years 5 years 10 years

WAS JBoss EAP WAS JBoss EAP WAS JBoss EAP WAS JBoss EAP

4 1 4 50 x86 $61,560 $90,000 $95,760 $180,000 $61,560 $211,875 $95,760 $423,7504 1 6 50 x86 $78,300 $90,000 $121,800 $180,000 $78,300 $253,125 $121,800 $506,2504 1 8 50 x86 $78,300 $135,000 $121,800 $270,000 $78,300 $335,625 $121,800 $671,2504 1 12 50 x86 $78,300 $180,000 $121,800 $360,000 $78,300 $468,750 $121,800 $937,5004 1 16 50 x86 $78,300 $270,000 $121,800 $540,000 $78,300 $637,500 $121,800 $1,275,0004 2 4 70 x86 $156,600 $135,000 $243,600 $270,000 $156,600 $335,625 $243,600 $671,2504 2 6 70 x86 $156,600 $180,000 $243,600 $360,000 $156,600 $468,750 $243,600 $937,5004 2 8 70 x86 $156,600 $270,000 $243,600 $540,000 $156,600 $637,500 $243,600 $1,275,0004 2 10 70 x86 $156,600 $315,000 $243,600 $630,000 $156,600 $766,875 $243,600 $1,533,7504 2 12 70 x86 $156,600 $360,000 $243,600 $720,000 $156,600 $890,625 $243,600 $1,781,2504 2 14 70 x86 $156,600 $450,000 $243,600 $900,000 $156,600 $1,102,500 $243,600 $2,205,0004 2 16 70 x86 $156,600 $495,000 $243,600 $990,000 $156,600 $1,226,250 $243,600 $2,452,5004 2 18 70 x86 $156,600 $540,000 $243,600 $1,080,000 $156,600 $1,359,375 $243,600 $2,718,7504 4 6 100 x86 $313,200 $360,000 $487,200 $720,000 $313,200 $890,625 $487,200 $1,781,2504 4 8 100 x86 $313,200 $495,000 $487,200 $990,000 $313,200 $1,226,250 $487,200 $2,452,5004 4 10 100 x86 $313,200 $585,000 $487,200 $1,170,000 $313,200 $1,479,375 $487,200 $2,958,7504 4 12 100 x86 $313,200 $720,000 $487,200 $1,440,000 $313,200 $1,781,250 $487,200 $3,562,5004 4 14 100 x86 $313,200 $855,000 $487,200 $1,710,000 $313,200 $2,116,875 $487,200 $4,233,7504 4 16 100 x86 $313,200 $945,000 $487,200 $1,890,000 $313,200 $2,370,000 $487,200 $4,740,0004 4 18 100 x86 $313,200 $1,080,000 $487,200 $2,160,000 $313,200 $2,671,875 $487,200 $5,343,750

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License cost comparison of additional components for App Server

WAS WAS ND JBoss EAP

Management and monitoring Included Included Included (in “managed” bundles)

JON configuration DBMS n/a n/a $6,900 / CPU / year (PostgreSQL)

Hardware for the JON database n/a n/a ~ $15,000 + support (3rd party)

Load Balancer Extra $ Included ~ $20,000 / device + support (3rd party)

Dynamic content caching proxy Extra $ Included $2,500 / 16 cores / year (JBoss EWS)

Page fragment & POJO caching Included Included ~ $1,000 / server / year (3rd party)

HTTPSession persistence DBMS Included Included $6,900 / CPU / year (PostgreSQL)

LDAP Included Included $9,000 / server / year (3rd party)

JDK Included Included OpenJDK is supported on RHEL$5,000 / core (Oracle JDK)

Troubleshooting tools Included Included $?,000 / year (3rd party)

HTTP Server Included Included $2,500 / 16 cores / year (JBoss EWS)

App Server Hardware $X $X $X + 30% (due to lower performance)

But wait, it gets better yet ! …

Support policy for IBM vs. Red Hat

• Production• all cores in production must be licensed

• Development• MQ, WAS for Developers (including Liberty), JBoss A-MQ, JBoss EAP are free

for development environment• See details here

• Non-production• WAS, MQ, JBoss A-MQ, JBoss EAP must be licensed for non-production• See details here

• Number of support contacts• IBM: unlimited• Red Hat: depends on the number of cores licensed: 2 contacts up to 32 cores,

4 contacts up to 64 cores, etc. up to 12 contacts for 192 cores (more details)

Forrester case study 1: The Total Economic Impact To IBM WAS Migrating From An Open Source Environment

Case study of a US Government Agency

Migration of the JBoss production system to WebSphere Application Server yielded 44% three-year risk-adjusted ROI with payback period of 2 years

Forrester case study 2: The Total Economic Impact of IBM WebSphere Application Server

• Case study of a US based Fortune 100 company

• Migration of the JBoss production system to WebSphere Application Server yielded 42% ROI and payback of 1.4 years

• Primary benefits of migration• Improved administration• Greater application performance• Higher application availability• Reduced support costs• Improved development

productivity

Oracle software licensing does not permit soft partitioning

Logical/soft partition with WAS ND on 2 cores

Logical/soft partition without WAS on 6 cores

WebSphere AS ND is licensed for 2 cores

License & support cost for 5 years= $47,880WebLogic Server Enterprise is licensed for 8 cores.

License & support cost for 5 years = $210,000

VMware image with WebLogic Server Enterprise on 2 cores

VMware images without WebLogic on 6 cores (one still must pay for these)

You pay Oracle for all CPUs on a server vs. CPUs that are assigned to the logical VM. Oracle does not allow the use of soft partitioning as a means to determine or limit the number of software licenses required for any given server.

Read detailed analysis here: http://bit.ly/OiqR3F

Example:

Based on publicly available information as of 6/11/2012 comparing Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition to IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. Both include maintenance and support for 5 years. IBM: 70 Processor Value Units per core, Oracle: 0.5 processor multiplier, both are on an x86 server, 2 sockets, quad core each.

Virtualization and server partitioning support4

1 - Oracle does not certify nor supports 3rd party software hypervisors2 - Oracle charges up to full capacity of the servers, regardless of the number of cores used, except for some hardware partitioning modes and some configurations of the OracleVM and Solaris3 - Turbocharged cores are not supported for pricing on Power74 - Read more details here: http://whywebsphere.com/2012/02/16/ibm-and-oracle-software-licensing-and-support-in-virtualized-private-cloud-environments/ 5 – Not all configurations of OracleVM and Solaris Containers are supported for sub-capacity pricing

Support1 Sub-capacity pricing2

IBM Oracle IBM Oracle

VMware Yes No Yes No

IBM z/VM Yes No Yes No

IBM PR/SM Yes No Yes No

IBM PowerVM LPAR Yes Yes Yes Yes/No3

Xen Yes No Yes No

Red Hat KVM Yes No Yes No

Hyper-V Yes Yes Yes No

Xen Yes No Yes No

Oracle VM Yes Yes Yes Yes/No5

Solaris containers Yes Yes Yes Yes/No5

Oracle charges more for backup and disaster recovery

• Both IBM and Oracle charge for the main cluster and hot backup

• Oracle charges full license cost for “Warm” backup servers

• IBM does not

• Oracle charges full license cost for “Cold” backup servers in DR setup

• IBM does not

• Oracle charges for “Cold” backup when failover is > 10 days

• IBM does not

Main cluster Warm backup Cold backup Disaster Recovery

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Example: x86 server, 2 sockets, 8 cores total

IBM License + support

Oracle License + support

Main cluster WAS ND $191,520 WLS EE $210,000

Hot backup WAS ND $191,520 WLS EE $210,000

Warm backup WAS ND $0 WLS EE $210,000

Cold backup* WAS ND $0 WLS EE $210,000

Disaster recovery WAS ND $0 WLS EE $210,000

Total 5 year cost $383,040 $1,050,000* - failover to cold backup for more than 10 days in a year

No Charge No Charge

List prices are used for cost comparisons. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions.

Example: x86 servers, no virtualization, no backupIBM

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WebSphere Application Server ND 12 $287,280 Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition 12 $315,000WebSphere Edge Cache (included) 4 $0 Oracle Web Cache (Oracle Web Tier) 4 $21,000WebSphere Edge WLM (included) 4 $0 3rd party load balancer (hw based) 4 $42,000DB2 UDB (included) 4 $0 Oracle DB Enterprise (for session replication) 4 $199,500IBM HTTP Server (included) 8 $0 Oracle HTTP Server (Oracle Web Tier) 8 $42,000Tivoli Directory (included) 4 $0 Oracle Directory Services 4 $46,200

$287,280 $665,700

WAS ND vs. WLS Enterprise pricing (5 years)

IP Sprayers Caching Servers

HTTP servers

JEE servers

LDAPservers

Oracle: $cost

IBM: $0

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IBM: $0 IBM: $0

IBM: $cost

IBM: $0

IBM: $0

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Oracle: $costOracle: $cost

Oracle: $cost

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$383,040 $2,358,825

Example of multi-failover and redundancy highlights compounding effect of Oracle license terms

• Compounding effect of all the license terms and conditions that Oracle imposes on customers results in large software license and support costs1

• Higher license costs2, higher support costs, cost of warm backup, cold backup, DR, no support for virtualization, lower performance per core3

$383K $2.3M

1 - the cost comparison is done over 5 years assuming x86 servers with 70 PVU core rating for IBM and 0.5 core factor for Oracle

2 - List prices are used for cost comparisons. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions.

3 - performance metrics derived from SPECjEnterprise2010 – see following charts for details

Example of license + support costs over 5 years:

http://whywebsphere.com/

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TCO study: WAS ND 8.5 vs. JBoss EAP v6

Conclusion: JBoss is 35% more expensive over 5 years compared to WAS ND

Source: Based on the study by Prolifics, December 2012

TCO Category IBM Red HatRedHat as % of IBM

Hardware $ 2,060,934 $ 3,114,308 151%Training $ 84,375 $ 171,998 204%

Software License $ 2,623,920 $ - 0%Software Support $ 2,008,815 $ 1,821,316 91%

Application Management $ 759,492 $ 2,570,500 338%Infrastructure Management $ 1,533,834 $ 2,301,566 150%

Risk and Downtime $ - $ 2,268,548 n/aTotal $ 9,071,370 $ 12,248,235 135%

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WAS 8.0 WLS 12cOracle 10g, 11g

Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008

Sybase 15.x DB2 9.x

DB2 for iSeries 5.x, 6.x

DB2 for z/OS 8.x, 9.x

IBM WS II Advanced 8.x, 9.x

IBM Informix DS 11.x

IMS 8, 9 on z/OS

CICS 2.x, 3.x on z/OS

Apache Derby 10.5

PointBase 5 MySQL 5 No XA

“Why do I care?”IBM offers more choices and allow to pick the right product for the right job, which often can reduce the cost of computing

Database certifications

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Invention of “Autopilot”Airplane controls circa 1940

Home grown wsadmin scripts or “human eyes and hands”

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Applications can be upgraded or downgraded without incurring outages or requiring additional hardware and license costs

ValidationMode

RolloutPolicies

ConcurrentActivation

Application Edition Management

Upgrade Applications without interruption to end users Concurrently run multiple editions of an application

– Automatically route users to a specific application Multiple editions can be activated for extended periods of time Rollout policies to switch from one edition to another without service loss Easily update OS or WebSphere without incurring down time Easy-to-use edition control center in admin console Full scripting support

StockTrading 1.0

StockTrading 2.0

StockTrading 3.0

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Sense and respond to problems before end users suffer an outage

Comprehensive Health Policies

CustomizableHealth Conditions

Customizable Health Actions

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Health Management

Automatically detect and handle application health problems– Without requiring administrator time, expertise, or

intervention Intelligently handle health issues in a way that will maintain

continuous availability Each health policy consists of a condition, one or

more actions, and a target set of processes Includes health policies for common application problems Customizable health conditions and health actions

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Helps mitigate common health problems before outages occur

Health Conditions

• Excessive request timeouts: % of timed out requests

• Excessive response time: average response time

• Excessive garbage collection: % of time spent in GCs

• Excessive memory: % of maximum JVM heap size

• Age-based: amount of time server has been running

• Memory leak: JVM heap size after garbage collection

• Storm drain: significant drop in response time

• Workload: total number of requests

Health policies can be defined for common server health conditions

When a health policy's condition is true, corrective action execute automatically or require approval– Notify administrator (send email or SNMP trap)– Capture diagnostics (generate heap dump, java core)– Restart server

Excessive response time means you are monitoring what matters most: your customer's experience!

Application server restarts are done in a way that prevent outages and service policy violations

Each health policy can be in supervise or automatic mode. Supervise mode is like training wheels to allow you to verify that a health policy does what you want before making it automatic.

Health Management – Health Policies

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Easily allows an administrator to specify the relative importance of applications and optionally a response time goal. WebSphere then manages your applications according to this policy.

– Service policies are used to define application service level goals

– Allow workloads to be classified, prioritized and intelligently routed

– Enables application performance monitoring

– Resource adjustments are made if needed to consistently achieve service policies

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Service Policies define the relative importance and response time goals of application services;

defined in terms the end user result the customer wishes to achieve

What is a Service Policy?

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Dynamic Clustering

A Dynamic Cluster is a virtual cluster of servers (JVMs) hosting the application that lives on group of nodes

What is dynamic about a dynamic cluster?– App server definitions are dynamically

created or deleted based upon the node membership policy (e.g. Servers are created/deleted if a node is added to /removed from a node group)

– App server definitions are automatically updated when the server template associated with the dynamic cluster is updated

– App servers are started / stopped based upon current application demand & service policies

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Improves business results by ensuring priority is given to business critical applications

Intelligent Routing

Requests prioritized and routed based upon administrator defined rules– Flexible policy-based routing and control

On Demand Router (ODR) is the focal point for Intelligent Routing

A routing tier that’s aware of what’s happening on the application server tier

– Application server utilization, request performance, etc…

Route work to the application server that can do it best Provide preference for higher priority requests

Integrates with Health Management and Dynamic Clustering

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Caching with WebSphere DynaCache

Patented IBM technology– used in IBM HTTP Server, EdgeServer and

WebSphere Application Server WebSphere DynaCache

– fragments of pages (Servlet, JSP, Portlet, POJO)

– Reduces both load and response time– Rule-based, time-based, and

programmatic– techniques for invalidating cache entries– Can control external caches (WS Edge

Server) Performance gains with:

– Static Fragments (header JSPs, navigation bars, etc.)

– Dynamic Fragments/Pages • stock quotes, search results, ads, levels of

service • personalized pages using shared

information (e.g. MyNews)

Administrator controls how fragments are cached

– Define rules based on Servlet, URI, request/session variables, etc.

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Application Server(s)

Static HTML cache

Dynamic Page

Fragment Cache

Dynamic Page

Fragment Cache*

Dynamic Page

Fragment Cache

Web services cache

Web services cache

Static HTML cache

WebSphere dynamic caches and cache replication

Edge Server(s) HTTP Server(s)

Caching helps to reduce the amount of hardware and software licenses and thus helps drive down costs

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Java Batch (now part of Java EE 7)

Lower TCO: Concurrent execution of batch & online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads using shared business logic on a shared infrastructure; Higher throughput and lower resource consumption on z/OS when collocated with data subsystems

Enhanced Developer Productivity: Pre-integrated application framework, Java batch programming model and tools to manage batch life cycle

Automation & Admin: Container managed services for checkpoint and restart capabilities in addition to reliable, highly available, secure and scalable infrastructure. Integrated administration of OLTP applications and batch jobs

Enterprise batch: Parallel batch and integration with external job schedulers is provided

Packaging utility: Utility to package batch application that can be deployed using JEE runtime

Ease of Access & Use: Integrated with WAS V8

Quickly develop and deploy batch applications and reduce infrastructure costs

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OSGi Applications

Modular deployment and management: Separate common libraries from application archives; manage them centrally and across many versions, concurrently

Standards Based DI Framework: POJO development model, with a container that manages injection of configuration, and controls activation & deactivation, integrated with the server

In-place update: Update applications modules without restarting the application

Java Standards Layering: Java standards such as transaction, security, & persistence can be mixed into the componentized apps as services

SCA Integration: Components can be decorated as SCA components to provide coarse grain SOA services

NEW in V8.5: Support added for EJB Bundles, including metadata-driven publication of OSGi Services

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servletA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servletA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servletA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servletA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servletA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servletA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

Bundle RepositoryBundle Repository

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

webA.jar

WEB-INF/classes/servA.class

WEB-INF/web.xml

META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

logging f/w jar

persistence f/w jar

MVC f/w jar

Speed development, increase ease of use and reuse through the modularity, dynamism, and versioning capabilities of OSGi applied to web & enterprise applications

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Capitalizing on Intelligent App Server Management

Base Application Server• Programming Model• QoS • Security• Administration

Server

ServerServer

ServerServer

ServerServer

Server

Job Manager• Control multiple endpoints• Remote management• Loose Coupling

Network Deployment Cell• Administration• Clustering• Workload Management

WebSphere Application Server

Server ServerServer

ServerServer

ServerServer

AdminAgent

AdminAgent

AdminAgent

Deployment Mgr

Deployment Mgr

Read more details here: http://smarterquestions.org/2012/01/comparison-of-automation-tools-for-large-scale-websphere-weblogic-and-jboss-topologies

Low cost administration of massive remote or local installations

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