System and method for failover
First Claim
1. A failover cluster system in which a plurality of computers are connected and, in a prescribed case, failover object resources of a failover source computer are taken over by a failover target computer, comprising a control section that is capable of taking over said failover object resources in stepwise fashion.
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Abstract
A node 1 and a node 2 are in a mutual failover relationship and share information used in failover through a shared LU. Of filesystems FS1A, FS1B that are mounted at the node 1, the actions of level 1 are allocated to FS1A and the actions of level 2 are allocated to FS1B. The level 1 filesystem FS1A is taken over to the node 2 simultaneously with commencement of failover. The level 2 filesystem FS1B is taken over to the node 2 when an access request for FS1B is generated after commencement of failover. In this way, business services with high availability can be restarted at an early stage.
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11 Claims
- 1. A failover cluster system in which a plurality of computers are connected and, in a prescribed case, failover object resources of a failover source computer are taken over by a failover target computer, comprising a control section that is capable of taking over said failover object resources in stepwise fashion.
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10. A method of failover of a failover cluster system constituted by connecting a plurality of computers between which a mutual failover relationship has been established, comprising the steps of:
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monitoring the state of use of a failover object resource;
setting a priority ranking of said failover object resource in accordance with said state of use;
storing on a shared disk shared by each said computer takeover information constituted by associating information for specifying said failover object resource with a takeover processing action set for said failover object resource in accordance with said priority ranking;
determining whether or not a failover execution condition has been established; and
taking over said failover object resource of a failover source computer in stepwise fashion onto a failover target computer in accordance with said priority ranking, by referring to said takeover information stored on said shared disk, if it is determined that said failover execution condition has been established.
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11. A failover cluster system comprising a failover source computer, a failover target computer connected with this failover source computer and a shared disk shared by said failover source computer and said failover target computer, wherein, in said failover source computer, there is provided a priority ranking determination processing section that classifies filesystems constituting the failover objects into one of a first category, second category or third category in accordance with the state of use of these respective filesystems and that stores in said shared disk the correspondence relationship of these respective filesystems and said respective categories and, in said failover target computer, there are provided a failover processing section that executes immediate mounting for the filesystems belonging to said first category and an access request acceptance processing section that, if an access request is generated in respect of a filesystem belonging to said second category, executes mounting for the filesystem belonging to said second category but does not execute mounting in respect of a filesystem belonging to said third category irrespective of whether or not there is a request for access.
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