When I'm not persuing my passion of triathlon training I'm a geek. A computer geek. Specifically a Technical Architect with a specialty in enterprise Java application architecture and WebSphere Application Server administration / performance tuning.
In my efforts to consolidate applications and make better use of the HUGE hardware investment at my new employer (~6 months), I've been moving WAS instances around, usually with very little fanfare and much tedium in the WAS Admin Console.
One thing I hadn't done though, until today, is move the WAS Network Deployment Manager instance. We had JUST the dmgr running on an eight-way AIX server, waaaayyyyyy too much horsepower for dmgr.
After much google'ing, I stumbled upon this. It seemed a bit too easy to work, and despite my successes with IBM's Tivoli and MQ Series support, I was frankly skeptical.
We provisioned a two-way machine and I installed WAS 5.0 -> FixPack 2 -> JDK SR9 -> Cumulative Fix 16 then simply restored the backed-up config from our functional ND host and waited for the AIX admin to do his magic swapping hostnames and IP's. A quick bounce and a ./startManager.sh and we were in business on a new host.
