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In a cluster system, it is important to eliminate single point of failure in terms of hardware. Other than this, data integrity and system health checking is very important. For a long term investment, a cluster shall be able to add additional nodes in the future in order to minimize the TCO.
The ShaoLin InfiniCluster cat operate from two independent machines. Provides complete redundancy and can have no single point of failure (SPOF). Shared storage can use RAID or even multiple disk arrays to achieve a high level of storage redundancy. Supports for multiple heartbeat communication channels between clusters.
ShaoLin InfiniCluster works independent of any types of Linux file systems and volumes, including journaling file systems and software RAID drivers. This ensures file systems are protected using all sorts of storage software without the need of reconfiguration or data migration. The use of journaling file systems also enables a fast recovery time without the need to run through a lengthly fsck check.
It is important to monitor the application availability. Application can fail due to various reasons. ShaoLin InfiniCluster offers service monitoring agents (SMA) which can execute custom status check scripts which control the availability of a specific application. Monitoring agents are available for common database, middle-ware and services.
Ensures the Linux kernel get monitored by ShaoLin InfiniCluster. Communications of clusters are done by kernel modules instead of user applications. This technology is known as highly reliable and crash safe from the user space.
The user interface is an interactive menu driven interface which can be used in a console and graphical Java console, local or remote access. This ensure ShaoLin InfiniCluster can be monitored and controlled by system administrator anytime, anywhere and using any type of connection.
Runs on x86 based commodity hardware or even PowerPC based hardware. There is no need for proprietary type of architecture to operate. Future investment protection of your ebusiness application and cluster software are assured.