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Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

  • 1.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Fri December 23, 2011 01:24 PM
    if anyone know, please help.


  • 2.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Fri December 23, 2011 02:00 PM
    Transforming means ... moving the application from one cell to another ?


  • 3.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Tue December 27, 2011 04:26 PM
    yes.


  • 4.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Wed December 28, 2011 11:25 AM
    yes, what is the matter?


  • 5.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Wed December 28, 2011 12:22 PM
    [quote author=88996895 post=514161541]Transforming means ... moving the application from one cell to another ?[/quote]

    If you have the application binaries [war/ear etc..].. you can deploy on new cell right?
    Is your question about moving even the configurations from one cell to another? 


  • 6.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Thu December 29, 2011 01:00 PM
    yes, I can deploy in new cell but if there are 100 applications deployed on multiple clusters, then manual deployment (even using scripts) is time consuming which I want to avoid. So I want to transform all my applications in installedApps directory from one cell to another.


  • 7.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Fri December 30, 2011 08:33 PM
    You might want to give a look into Centralized Installation Manager (CIM), that comes with WAS but very few people (as far as I can tell) really use it.

    Take a look:
    publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinf...

    Not sure if it solves your specific problem, but it might be worth a shot.

    Cheers
    Alexei 


  • 8.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Wed January 04, 2012 10:56 PM
    I think CIM is more useful when you need to upgrade brand new environment, but when we have existing environment and want to upgrade it, then CIM is not useful. i think there is a concept like hot deployment where we can directly copy application from one env to other.


  • 9.  Has anyone tried transforming applications from one cell to other

    Posted Thu January 05, 2012 10:18 AM
    I myself don't like the hot deployment option, mostly for production environments. It is way too easy - which can be convenient sometimes, but it makes it much easier to make mistakes during long overnight deployments. But that is just my personal feeling about it.

    Well, I believe there isn't any "standard" way to do that, without some additional paid tool. Remember that you must not only transfer the applications themselves, you have to copy all the resources they use (datasources, queues, etc...).