Sun Cluster Overview for Solaris OS

Failover and Scalable Services and Parallel Applications

Failover and scalable services and parallel applications enable you to make your applications highly available and to improve an application's performance on a cluster.

A failover service provides high availability through redundancy. When a failure occurs, you can configure an application that is running to either restart on the same node, or be moved to another node in the cluster, without user intervention.

To increase performance, a scalable service leverages the multiple nodes in a cluster to concurrently run an application. In a scalable configuration, each node in the cluster can provide data and process client requests.

Parallel databases enable multiple instances of the database server to do the following:

For more information about failover and scalable services and parallel applications, see Data Service Types.