Serviceguard Terminology

The following terms are used throughout the remainder of this chapter and in the Serviceguard documentation.

Cluster: a set of two or more nodes that have enough hardware and software redundancy that a hardware or software failure will not significantly disrupt service

Package: a workload that has been configured to run on a cluster. A package is capable of running on more than one node in the cluster and can be migrated from node to node for maintenance or in the event of a hardware or software failure.

Primary Node: the node where a package is configured to run most of the time. Generally a package runs on its primary node unless the node fails or requires maintenance, in which case the package is moved to an adoptive ...

Get The HP Virtual Server Environment: Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.