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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
May. 05, 2005
Julian Satran, Atlit, IL;
John Lewis Hufferd, San Jose, CA (US);
Kalman Meht, Netanya, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods for recovery from server-failures wherein servers control a communication initiator's access to a set of resources. A probable server failure leads to a communication initiator performing a discovery operation to identify available servers capable of accessing a required resource. A server checks whether any of the servers has failed. If a server has failed, a server other than the failed server sends the communication initiator an identification of the failed server together with a network address of an identified available server. The identified available server configures itself to respond to resource access requests directed to the failed server. The communication initiator establishes a connection to an available server enabling access to the required resource. The available server uses initiator-provided elements to recreate a reservation identifier, so that replacing server can also manage resources that were reserved by the failed server at the time of its failure.