Shared Data Clusters
Scaleable, Manageable, and Highly Available Systems (VERITAS Series)
Preface
I have always been fascinated by technology and especially by computers.
Leading the development of VERITAS cluster file system, from inception to
first release, has been a very exciting period in my life. This book arose out of
a desire to share that excitement with you.
What are clusters? Computers interconnected through a network and
running clustering software so that the whole shebang acts like a single big
computer-that is a cluster. If you add hard disks and clustered storage
software to the mix, so all the storage appears to be connected to that single
big computer-then that is a shared data cluster.
Shared Data Clusters
Cluster computing is not new, but it was popular mostly for scientific
computing. The emphasis was more on massive computing, and less on high
availability and massive data storage. Business computing is just the opposite,
and so clusters were not that interesting to business enterpri ... read full excerpt from Shared Data Clusters: Scaleable, Manageable, and Highly Available Systems (VERITAS Series) ebook
