Its architecture replicates centralized management controlled by conventional dedicated hardware and servers through collaborative distributed administration services between servers, including monitoring services, switching servers, and distributing load. The distributed system enhances reliability and availability while dramatically reducing the cost and the number of tasks which are cumbersome for users.
Conventional clustering requires expensive hardware and high-end storage solutions.
Both companies will continue to develop high-performance cluster products. Manual server switching functions enable users to conduct dynamic maintenance tasks without shutting down. SNMP is used for interaction with operating and monitoring software. Load distribution function enables the system to quickly process requests. 256 services can be monitored by a single server independent of the number of computers in the cluster.