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Server clustering in a computing-on-demand system

  • US 8,782,238 B2
  • Filed: 11/05/2010
  • Issued: 07/15/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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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 first network interface;

    enabling, by at least one device, a corresponding second 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 second 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.

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