Chapter 3. Sun Cluster 3.0 Architecture

This chapter describes the Sun Cluster 3.0 product architecture. The chapter discusses the kernel infrastructure and highlights important features of the software that enable you to design from the services perspective, rather than from the software perspective.

The first half of this chapter positions Sun Cluster 3.0 in the modern enterprise Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. It demonstrates how Sun Cluster 3.0 fits in with the Sun™ Service Point Architecture vision and describes failure handling and outage time. This half of the chapter also discusses how you must clearly differentiate high availability from disaster recovery and fault tolerant solutions.

The second half of the chapter examines ...

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