Patent ID: 11902083
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A method comprising:
deploying a cloud witness service and one or more local witness services to selectively serve one or more cluster sites each having at least two storage/compute nodes, the one or more local witness services running on one or more external devices local to an associated cluster site of the one or more cluster sites, the cloud witness service running on a central cloud management platform that is remote from the one or more cluster sites;
managing the cloud witness service and the one or more local witness services with the central cloud management platform; and
selectively performing arbitration services with either the cloud witness service or one of the one or more local witness services if a partition in one of the one or more cluster sites fails or communication between partitions in one of the one or more cluster sites fails,
wherein the one or more local witness services and the cloud witness service are instantiations of a witness server and are selectively reachable via a uniform service interface.