Symantec Corporation

Vishal Kher

Craig Harmer

Prasanta Ranjan Dash

Sara Abraham

A list of servers known to a client is compared with lists of servers stored on the servers. An instance of content (e.g., a data file) can be accessed from a server on the list if at least a simple majority of the servers have the same version of the list.

Locating the latest version of replicated data files

A node in a server cluster is designated as a quorum disk. The node stores a list of other nodes in the server cluster also designated as quorum disks. The node can replace the first list with a second and more recent list of quorum disks only if the second list is updated on at least a simple majority of quorum disks on the first list.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Vishal Kher