Patent ID: 9262286
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for failover in a data center comprising a multi-density server, the multi-density server comprising a plurality of independent servers, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of: detecting, by a management module, a failure of one of the independent servers of the multi-density server; identifying, by the management module, a failover target; determining, by the management module, whether the failover target is a non-failed independent server included in the multi-density; responsive to determining that the failover target is a non-failed independent server included in the multi-density server, migrating, by the management module, the failed independent server's workload to another server that is not included in the multi-density server; and migrating, by the management module, workload of all non-failed independent servers of the multi-density system to a server not included in the multi-density server.