Engineering the how and where of an installation
As stated at the beginning of the chapter, there are some actions that can take place prior to performing the installation of your WAS ND7 environment. It is likely that you already perform all of them or most of them. However, they are included here for those readers for which WAS ND7 is their first experience with a WebSphere environment.
Appreciating the importance of location, location, location!
As in real estate, the location selected for a house (or the product files in our case) is very important. File systems can be a blessing and a curse. They are a blessing in that they help control how our data is organized. They would be a curse if planning is done poorly and the environment runs out of space after your enterprise applications are installed and they have been executing only for a while.
Your corporation may have some established policies and standards that would apply to most third party software packages. If that is your case, your...