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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2004
Martin H. Rattner, Los Altos, CA (US);
Nicholas A. Solter, Irvine, CA (US);
Martin H. Rattner, Los Altos, CA (US);
Nicholas A. Solter, Irvine, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a cluster having a plurality of nodes wherein at least one of the nodes is a candidate node, a plurality of resource groups, a clustering mechanism executing on the cluster configured to activate a first resource group of the plurality of resource groups on the candidate node, and a resource group affinity of the plurality of resource groups, wherein the resource group affinity comprises a unidirectional association between the first resource group of the plurality of resource groups and a second resource group of the plurality of resource groups.