How does Solaris Cluster work?
By tightly coupling Sun’s servers, storage and networking solutions, Solaris Cluster provides the maximum level of service availability and performance for a cluster system. The servers (nodes) in a cluster communicate through private interconnects. These interconnects carry important cluster information (data as well as a cluster “heartbeat”). This heartbeat lets the servers in the cluster monitor the health of the other servers within the cluster, ensuring that each server is “alive”. If one of the servers goes offline and its heartbeat disappears, the rest of the devices in the cluster isolate the server and “fail-over” any application or data from the failing node to another node. This fail-over process is quick and transparent to users of the application. By exploiting the redundancy in the cluster, Solaris Cluster ensures the highest levels of availability. A typical Solaris Cluster configuration has the following components: Hardware Components: • Servers with local storage (sto
Related Questions
- Are Cluster software support plans available for servers that are available on the Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), but not on the Open Hardware Program (OHP) matrix?
- How many nodes can be had in an HP-UX/Solaris/AIX/Windows/Linux cluster?
- Are There any Differences Between Open HA Cluster and Solaris Cluster?
