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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2000
James R. Duncan, Houston, TX (US);
Edgar Hance, Houston, TX (US);
David A. McAfee, Spring, TX (US);
Gerald J. Merits, Houston, TX (US);
Mike L. Pelonero, Houston, TX (US);
Patrick A. Raymond, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Everett R. Salinas, Pasadena, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A fault tolerant network server is described. This server has a pair of processing units, each processing unit has at least one CPU, system memory, an interface for a RAID system, at least one disk drive, a network interface, a cluster network interface, a power supply, and a case. The cases of both processing units are slideably mounted in a rack-mountable server case. The server also has a RAID system mounted in the server case and powered by two, redundant, power supplies and coupled to the processing units through isolators for blocking transactions when a processing unit has insufficient power or is being serviced.