WO2006019744A3 - Deterministically active-active failover of redundant servers in a network storage appliance - Google Patents

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WO2006019744A3
WO2006019744A3 PCT/US2005/024710 US2005024710W WO2006019744A3 WO 2006019744 A3 WO2006019744 A3 WO 2006019744A3 US 2005024710 W US2005024710 W US 2005024710W WO 2006019744 A3 WO2006019744 A3 WO 2006019744A3
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Deterministic active-active failover of redundant server blades hot-pluggable into a backplane of a network storage appliance chassis is disclosed. Each server monitors the other's heartbeat on a respective path in the backplane. Other paths between the two servers on the backplane enable one server to reliably kill the other server and take over its identity on the network in response to detecting a stopped heartbeat of the other server. The apparatus is superior to a conventional heartbeat link between servers in separate chassis, such as an Ethernet cable, because it is not prone to user removal or damage since the backplane cannot be removed by a user while the appliance is operational and enables each server to know a true heartbeat failure has occurred, as opposed to failure of a conventional external heartbeat link causing each server to each think the other has failed.
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