Preparing PlateSpin Orchestrate for High Availability Support
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Preparing PlateSpin Orchestrate
for High Availability Support
Ensuring maximum service-level availability and data protection is paramount to enterprise IT
infrastructure. Automated failure detection and recovery prevents downtime, and reduces the
financial and operational impact of outages to the business. Highly available infrastructure is a key
requirement for IT decision makers.
The PlateSpin
®
Orchestrate Server from Novell
®
is a critical component of your enterprise
infrastructure. It continuously monitors and manages physical servers and virtual machines (VMs),
and provides high availability for virtual machines by automatically restarting them on alternate
physical servers if the server they are running on becomes unavailable because of a planned or
unplanned outage. Therefore, the Orchestrate Server itself must be highly available.
In PlateSpin Orchestrate, high availability services are provided by a specialized set of applications
that run on SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server (SLES10). Heartbeat 2 is high availability clustering
software that provides multinode failover and service-level health monitoring for Linux-based
services. Heartbeat 2 monitors both physical servers and the services running on them, and
automatically restarts services if they fail.
This guide describes how to configure PlateSpin Orchestrate in a Heartbeat 2 cluster and how to
provide both service-level restart for the Orchestrate Server and failover among the physical servers
of a Linux cluster to ensure that PlateSpin Orchestrate remains available and responsive to the
infrastructure that it manages.
This section includes the following information:
Section 1.1, “Overview,” on page 9
Section 1.2, “Installing PlateSpin Orchestrate to a High Availability Environment,” on page 10
1.1 Overview
The following figure illustrates how PlateSpin Orchestrate is configured for use in a high
availability environment.
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