The Failover Process
Failover is the transfer of the logical host from an active node to a standby node. A logical host has access to a subset of available machine resources, including IP addresses and disk groups (VxVM) or disk sets (SDS). Each logical host is configured with a unique name, and has information about which physical node is the preferred master and which physical node is a potential failover node, see Figure 7-1.
Figure 7-1. Logical Host Attributes
Failover requires binding a data service to a logical host to enable the service to be managed by the SC2.2 infrastructure—this provides an environment for an application to be made highly ...
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