Building a high performance and high availability Commerce site is not a trivial task, from having the correct capacity hardware to handle the workload to properly test the code change before deploying in production site. This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers several major areas that need to be considered when using WebSphere® Commerce and provide solutions for how to address them. Here are some of the topics discussed:

How to build a Commerce site to deal with various kinds of unplanned outage. This include utilizing IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment 6.0 and IBM DB2® High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) in the Commerce environment.

How to build a Commerce site to deal with planned outages such as software fixes and operation updates. This includes use of the WebSphere Application Server Rollout Update feature and the use of Commerce Staging Server and Content Management.

How to proactively monitor the Commerce site and prevent potential problems from occurring. Various tools are discussed, such as WebSphere Application Server build-in tools and Tivoli®'s Performance Viewer.

How to utilize Dynacache to future enhance your Commerce site's performance. This includes additional Commerce command caching introduced in Commerce fix pack and e-spot caching.

The methodology of doing performance and scalability testing on a Commerce site.

Part 1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Project planning for High Availability and performance

Chapter 3. Scenario for this book

Part 2. High Availability solutions for unplanned and planned outages

Chapter 4. External clustering software

Chapter 5. Database tier High Availability

Chapter 6. WebSphere Application Server High Availability

Chapter 7. Web tier High Availability

Part 3. Installation and configuration of a High Availability WebSphere Commerce system

Chapter 8. Base product and fix pack installations for all tiers

Chapter 9. High Availability solution for IBM DB2 Universal Database

Chapter 10. WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Commerce federation and clustering

Chapter 11. Web server clustering

Part 4. Design with performance in mind

Chapter 12. Development performance considerations

Chapter 13. Caching

Chapter 14. Profiling

Part 5. Monitoring and performance tuning

Chapter 15. Operating system monitoring tools

Chapter 16. IBM DB2 Universal Database

Chapter 17. Monitor and tune WebSphere Application Server for WebSphere Commerce

Chapter 18. Monitor and tune Web servers

Chapter 19. Monitor and tune Load Balancer

Part 6. Performance test

Chapter 20. Introduction to performance testing

Chapter 21. Designing a test plan

Chapter 22. Performance test tools

Chapter 23. Applying performance testing to WebSphere Commerce

Chapter 24. Analyzing test results and solving performance problems

Part 7. Maintenance

Chapter 25. Database maintenance

Chapter 26. Maintain and update WebSphere Application Server tier

Chapter 27. Maintain and update Web servers

Chapter 28. Maintain and update Load Balancer