Patent ID: 8972581
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a portal device at a network and from a client application, a user request to provision a cluster in the network, wherein the client application includes a browser; provisioning, by at least one device in response to the request, two or more servers having a plurality of network interfaces, wherein each of the servers includes a corresponding network interface; enabling, by at least one device, the corresponding network interface in each server of the provisioned servers; creating, by at least one device, a shared volume; assigning, by at least one device, the shared volume to each of the provisioned servers; enabling a clustering application on each of the provisioned servers, wherein the enabled clustering application creates the cluster comprising the provisioned servers, wherein the cluster has a heartbeat via the provisioned servers over the plurality of network interfaces in the provisioned servers; and fencing, via a power control device, one of the two or more servers when a different one of the two or more servers fails.