Clustering

In today's business environment, time really is money. In the financial markets, applications can be responsible for moving literally trillions of dollars a day. Any significant unavailability of such an application, or even an outage on a smaller system that is responsible for only billions or possibly millions of dollars of daily revenue, can have a significant impact on a company's bottom line. Consequently, highly available (HA) environments are required for certain applications. One strategy for creating an HA environment might include a cluster of computing devices and related storage.

In the following sections, we provide an overview of clustering technology and focus on TruCluster and Sun Cluster 3.0 software. Although our ...

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