Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 03 Nov 1996 02:04:55 +0100 | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | Re: Core dumps & restarting [kind of done in Irix 6.4] |
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Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Irix 6.4 has two cool features: > (from a doc I got) > High Availability
IBM has had HACMP for years on AIX, the Italian Unirel Sistemi has been selling the EasyLife HA software for Solaris on SparcStorage Arrays or Clariion diskarrays since at least end-1994... I don't know about HP or others, if SGI comes out on 6.4 with HA well...
Since a HA solution may be fully implemented in user space (each box has a "heartbeat" daemon talking over a RS-232 line, when 1 detects the "death" of the 2nd it first goes on Ethernet to check if the serial line hasn't failed, then if needed looks into its HA database to see which actions have been configured, just does them) my guess is that as soon as anybody has a bit more spare time than I have, a bit of interest in this issue - and of course at least 2 machines :) well a HA solution for Linux can come out pretty easily.
--alessandro
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