Migrating servers from multi-broker replication domains to data replication domains

You can migrate multi-broker replication domains to data replication domains. Any multi-broker domains that exist in your application server environment were created with a previous version of WebSphere Application Server.

Determine if the application server configuration you are migrating:

1. Uses an instance of data replication service in peer-to-peer mode or in client/server mode.

   Before you begin migrating a client/server mode replication domain, consider if migrating your replication domains might cause a single point of failure. Because you migrate the servers to the new type of replication domain one at a time, you risk a single point of failure if there are 3 or fewer application servers. Before migrating, configure at least 4 servers that use multi-broker replication domains. Perform the following steps to migrate the multi-broker domains to data replication domains:

   Dynamic cache replication domains use the peer-to-peer topology.

2. Uses HTTP session memory-to-memory replication that is overloaded at the application or web module level.

   If the application server configuration you are migrating uses HTTP session memory-to-memory replication that is overloaded at the application or web module level, upgrade your deployment manager to the current version of WebSphere Application Server before you start the migration process.

Overview

For HTTP session affinity to continue working correctly when migrating V5.x application servers to V6.1 application servers, upgrade all of the Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server to the latest version before upgrading the application servers that perform replication.

After you upgrade your deployment manager to the latest version of WebSphere Application Server, you can only create data replication domains. Any multi-broker domains that you created with a previous release of WebSphere Application Server are still functional, however, you cannot use the administrative console to create new multi-broker domains or replicators.

The different versions of application servers cannot communicate with each other. When migrating your servers to the current version of WebSphere Application Server, keep at least two application servers running on the previous version so that replication remains functional.

Verify all of your application servers that are using this multi-broker domain have been migrated to the current version of WebSphere Application Server before you start to migrate any multi-broker domains that exist in your configuration.

To migrate the multi-broker domains that exist in your configuration:

Procedure

1. Migrate two or more of your existing servers to the current version of WebSphere Application Server. The remaining servers on the previous version of WebSphere Application Server can still communicate with each other, but not with the migrated servers. The migrated servers can also communicate with each other.

2. In the administrative console, create an empty data replication domain. Click Environment > Replication domains > New to create an empty data replication domain.

3. Add two of your migrated servers to the new data replication domain.

   For example, if you are migrated four servers, only add two of them to the new replication domain.

4. Configure the two servers as consumers of the replication domain.

   Configuring the servers as consumers of the replication domain enables them to use the new domain to share data.

5. Add some of the clients to the new data replication domain.

   Perform this step only if the application server configuration you are migrating uses an instance of data replication service in client/server mode.

6. Configure these clients as consumers of the replication domain.

7. Verify that the new data replication domain are successfully sharing data.

   Only the servers and clients that are added to the data replication domain and are configured as consumers of this domain can use the data replication domain functions.

8. Add the rest of your migrated servers to the new data replication domain.

   When the servers can use the new data replication domain to successfully share data, migrate the rest of the servers that are using the multi-broker replication domain to the new data replication domain.

   For example, if you are migrated four servers, add the remaining two servers to the new replication domain.

9. Configure these servers as consumers of the replication domain.

10. Add the rest of the clients to the new data replication domain.

    Perform this step only if the application server configuration you are migrating uses an instance of data replication service in client/server mode.

11. Configure these clients as consumers of the replication domain.

12. Restart all of the application servers and clients.

13. Delete the empty multi-broker replication domain.

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