Chapter 1. Overview of Cluster Technology

Table of Contents
1.1. What is a Cluster?
1.1.1. Failure Detection
1.1.1.1. Application Failure Detection
1.1.1.2. Node Failure Detection
1.1.2. Switchover, Failover and Failback
1.1.2.1. Switchover
1.1.2.2. Failover
1.1.2.3. Failback
1.2. How to make Application "Clustered"?
1.2.1. Start, Stop and monitor procedures
1.2.1.1. Defined Start Procedure
1.2.1.2. Defined Stop Procedure
1.2.1.3. Defined Monitor Procedure
1.2.2. Known state
1.2.3. Store required data on shared disks
1.2.4. Adherence to system

This chapter introduce clustering and describes the basics of application clustering using ShaoLin InfiniCluster (SIC).