Patent ID: 9658912
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for implementing a heartbeat service of a high availability cluster, comprising: writing, by a writing unit of a server, heartbeat counting information to a disk array, wherein the heartbeat counting information comprises a write heartbeat message sequence number, a read peer heartbeat message sequence number, active-standby state information, a heartbeat message, and a heartbeat message length of the server, to enable one or more corresponding servers to read the heartbeat counting information, in the disk array, of the server; reading heartbeat counting information, by a reading unit of the server, which is written by the one or more corresponding servers to the disk array, of the one or more corresponding servers; repeating the above write process by the writing unit and the above read process by the reading unit; and wherein the heartbeat counting information of the one or more corresponding servers comprises a write heartbeat message sequence number, a read peer heartbeat message sequence number, active-standby state information, a heartbeat message, and a heartbeat message length of the one or more corresponding servers.