February 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
25h 24m
English
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Chapter 16. Clustering OpenSolaris for High Availability
IN THIS CHAPTER
Introduction to high-availability clusters
Overview of Open High Availability Cluster
Setting up a cluster
Using a cluster
Advanced cluster administration
Making custom services highly available
Disaster recovery with Open High Availability Cluster
OpenSolaris is a solid, highly robust operating system. As described in Chapters 12 and 13, OpenSolaris contains considerable built-in support for reliability and availability in the form of predictive self-healing. Because of hardware and software failures, however, there are limits to the level of availability that a single physical machine can provide, regardless of the robustness of the underlying operating system. To increase the availability of your system beyond the capabilities of a single machine, you can cluster two or more machines together. This chapter describes the Open High Availability Cluster software that you can use to tightly couple multiple machines running OpenSolaris for augmented availability of the system as a whole.
Introduction to High-Availability Clusters
Before delving into the details of the Open High Availability (HA) Cluster software, it's helpful to understand why high availability is important, and why it sometimes makes sense to cluster for high availability.
First, downtime is costly. If you're using OpenSolaris only as a desktop or laptop operating system, you probably aren't too concerned with occasional downtime; but if you're using OpenSolaris ...
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