Roadmaps for V9.0 installation and deployment

The IBM® WebSphere® Portal installation and deployment roadmaps provide high-level instructions for setting up a stand-alone or clustered V9.0 environment.

Before you begin

For an in-depth look at additional installation and deployment options, review the V8.5 roadmaps.
  • Roadmap: V9.0 stand-alone environment
    A stand-alone IBM WebSphere Portal Version 9.0 server topology is ideal for a test or small production environment. In this roadmap, the web server, database, and user registry software are distributed to different physical servers.
  • Roadmap: V9.0 clustered environment
    The production environment represents the servers that incoming web traffic accesses to experience your digital experience. It does not have to be a cluster. This environment could multiple clusters, a portal farm, or a stand-alone server, depending on your business needs. However, this roadmap is based on a cluster topology. In a cluster, the portals share a common configuration and the load is distributed evenly across all cluster instances.
  • Roadmap: Upgrading your V85 environment to V9
    If you have an existing IBM WebSphere Portal Version 8.5 server, upgrade to Version 9 using the continuous feature release process. WebSphere Portal Version 9 provides capabilities to integrate with IBM Watson Content Hub.
Parent topic: Roadmaps to deploy your system