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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2005
Sudhir G. Rao, Portland, OR (US);
Bruce M. Jackson, Portland, OR (US);
Sudhir G. Rao, Portland, OR (US);
Bruce M. Jackson, Portland, OR (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A cluster recovery and maintenance technique for use in a server cluster having plural nodes implementing a server tier in a client-server computing architecture. A first group of N active nodes each run a software stack comprising a cluster management tier and a cluster application tier that actively provides services on behalf of client applications running in a client application tier. A second group of M spare nodes each run a software stack comprising a cluster management tier and a cluster application tier that does not actively provide services on behalf of client applications. First and second zones in the cluster are determined in response to an active node membership change involving active nodes departing from or being added to the first group as a result of an active node failing or becoming unreachable or as a result of a maintenance operation involving an active node.