Are You Tired of Having to Troubleshoot One Server at a Time? Are you making necessary updates in a serial fashion? Phurnace Deliver™ can perform multiple Snapshots and Updates at once. So, you can Snapshot and Update all of your Application Servers at the same time. Let’s hear it for multi-threaded applications!
Need to Troubleshoot Application Server Configuration Problems? How can Phurnace Deliver™ help troubleshoot my application server configuration problems?
Use Deliver to take baseline Snapshots of your “trouble free” application server configurations. Then when problems occur use Phurnace Deliver's™ “Compare Configurations” feature to quickly view all changes between the baseline Snapshot and the current configuration.
For example, your problem configuration might show parameter values that have been changed or a new application that has been deployed on the server. Once you have determined the problem Phurnace Deliver's™ “Install” feature can quickly apply the necessary changes to your application server.
Enhancing your Virtualization Initiative The Virtualization trend is being driven by hardware cost savings and the reduction of time spent on setting up and managing applications. With Phurnace Deliver™, we help you take your virtualization to the next level.
With Virtualization today you are required to have a library of server images that you bring up and down depending on the changing demands in your organization. Perhaps during peak times you have more of the transaction processing servers online, but at night it is better to have more servers working on batch jobs. With virtualization you are able to have much higher utilization of your infrastructure, therefore saving you money on the management and time spent on server provisioning.
Phurnace Deliver™ takes those same value propositions and brings them to the application layer. With Phurnace Deliver™ you can dynamically allocate applications to the up and running app servers as well as automate the set up of cluster size, memory allocation, or hundreds of other parameters. Now with Phurnace Deliver™, you can dynamically take applications off of a cluster to free up resources for more important applications and then bring them back online after the peak load time has passed.
A common use case example: Imagine that Denise is responsible for a medium sized server environment of 100 application server JVMs. On those JVMs are 30 applications, running in a variety of topologies. At peak load times there are 5 applications that are critically important. Denise would like a way to dynamically add server capacity to those applications. Right now Denise could manually add and delete applications from the various clusters, but doing that is very time consuming and error-prone. The environment most likely is complex, with a series of virtual server images with the applications deployed with an array of different configurations -- but with that number of applications and servers, it is too resource intensive to build a server image of every permutation. Denise can’t feasibly take full advantage of the virtualization.
With Phurnace Deliver™ the story is fundamentally different. With Phurnace Deliver™, Denise can decide to add or delete an application from a cluster on the fly and have all of the changes take place in real-time; no server down time and executed in an entirely automated process. This allows her to scale the capacity of her applications up and down depending on the resource demand: making better use of her servers and delivering improved overall performance. Now, that is the true promise of virtualization. Don’t go only half way, extend the benefits of virtualization all the way to the application layer – with Phurnace Deliver™.
Secure Your Phurnace Deliver™ Artifacts How can I use my source control system to secure my Phurnace Deliver™ artifacts?
- Within the “Deliver Navigator” view right-mouse click on your project and select “Team” and then “Share Project…” from the popup menus.
- From the “Share Project” wizard select either “SVN” or “CVS” to specify your source control system. Press the NEXT button.
- Enter the URL and credentials required to connect to your source control system. Press the FINISH button and your project along with all your snapshots and server profiles will be saved and versioned within your source control system.
WebSphere Process Server headaches? Phurnace Deliver™ can help you manage your WebSphere Process Server too. Just use the Template="defaultProcessServer" attribute for your Server's elements when creating them. Phurnace Deliver™ can help you manage any application based on WebSphere, including WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Portal Server. Check the "About" section in the Admin Console to determine which version of WebSphere you are targeting.
WebLogic Application Versioning Tired of having to guess what versions of what applications you have installed on WebLogic? Try attaching version numbers and a pointer to the person who made the changes to the "Description" attribute on each object as you deploy them to make sure that you keep you environments in sync.
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