SERVER CLUSTERING IN A COMPUTING-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM

• US 20150242292A1
• Filed: 03/03/2015
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Witt, Emily Katherine, Kumar, Vijay, Cooke, Richard, Everhart, William Thomas, Patel, Jinendrakumar J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,360 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/203 using migration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45579 I/O management, e.g. providing access to device drivers or storage
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0654 using network fault recovery ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/28 using route fault recovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1004 Server selection for load balancing

Abstract

A device may provision two or more servers, each of the servers including a network interface. In addition, the device may enable the network interface in each of the provisioned servers, create a shared volume, assign the shared volume to each of the provisioned servers, and enable a clustering application on each of the provisioned servers to form a cluster comprising the provisioned servers, the cluster having a heartbeat via the network interfaces.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a portal device and from a client application, a user request to provision a cluster, wherein the client application includes a browser;

provisioning, by at least one device in response to the request, two or more servers, each of the servers including a corresponding network interface;

enabling, by at least one device, the corresponding network interface in each of the provisioned servers;

creating, by at least one device, a shared volume;

assigning, by at least one device, the shared volume to each of the provisioned servers;

enabling a clustering application on each of the provisioned servers, wherein the enabled clustering application creates the cluster comprising the provisioned servers, the cluster having a heartbeat via the network interfaces; and

fencing, via a power control device, one of the two or more servers when a different one of the two or more servers fails.