Cost factors
Vendor evaluation
Clustering Categories
Database
Fileservers
Facilitates planned
maintenance
1 1 1
Failover
Active / Passive
Active / Active
In failure scenarios (eg hung node), ensure failed node can not access
storage - I/O Barriers, I/O Fencing
System crashes
Common mechanisms
Power switches
SCSI reservations
Watchdog timers
1 1 1
Application Monitoring
Process existence
Example
Support
Hardware requirements
Financial Stability
Supports 16 nodes
Proprietary
Replication
Application monitoring
Proprietary
Application monitoring
Up to 16 nodes
Centralized management
1 1 1
PolyServe - Matrix Server
Proprietary
1 1 1
Red Hat - Cluster Manager
Application monitoring
Application monitoring
1 1 1
IBM
Focusing on HPC
Custom solutions
Parallel shell
Proprietary
1 1 1
Other Vendors
Dell
Penguin Computing
Egenera
Linux NetworX