StarWind's Server Clustering
Server Clusters
StarWind Enterprise Server helps you create and provide shared storage for your server clusters, which is used to increase reliability and availability of your application and data. A cluster is a group of independent servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical applications and resources are as highly-available as possible. The group of computers is managed as a single system, shares a common namespace, and is specifically designed to tolerate component failures. A cluster supports the addition or removal of components in a way that’s transparent to users. The general concept in clustering is that there are nodes, which are computers that are members of the cluster that are either active or passive. Active nodes are running an application or service while passive nodes are in a standby state communicating with the active nodes so they can identify when there is a failure. In the event of a failure, the passive node then becomes active and starts running the service or application.Clustering, at the most basic, is combining two servers so that a failure will not result in a long outage and lost availability. In the case of a cluster, the redundancy is at the server computer level, however, the redundancy is configured per service or application. The following figure shows two nodes that connect to a shared storage device or a SAN that is provided using StarWind Enterprise Server.
| Live demo | Free 30-day trial | How to buy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Request now |  |
Download free trial | |
Request a quote |
new
