Kimberlite Cluster software

• Active-active cluster provides high-availability

  • A school is like any other business – work stops if servers are down for a day while waiting for service and spares

• Services can be relocated anywhere on cluster for load balancing or cluster maintenance

  • 5-10 minutes service downtime in case of server failure
  • Relies on shared storage Shared SCSI (OFS cluster v1) and Fibre Channel (OFS cluster v2)
  • Storage Partitions, software and floating ip addresses are automatically moved between servers upon failure detection

• Much cheaper than commercial equivalents such as Sun Cluster or Microsoft Cluster Services