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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2009
Applicants:
Indumathi Shankar, Los Altos, CA (US);
Avanish Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Indumathi Shankar, Los Altos, CA (US);
Avanish Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method and system for making intelligent failover decisions within a server cluster. The method includes receiving temperature information and location information using RFID technology and detecting an error condition. The method further includes responsive to the error condition, selecting a failover target based on said temperature information and location information and transferring operations from a portion of a storage cluster to the failover target based on the selecting.