Patent ID: 8661286

Claim:
A system comprising: a first node of a cluster that includes: a Linux operating system; administration console software; interconnect software for communicating with a second operating system, running on a separate non-Linux hardware platform; and wherein the first node can be configured and managed in the cluster by the second operating system; a second node of the cluster that includes: a Linux operating system; administration console software; and interconnect software for communicating with the second operating system, running on the separate non-Linux hardware platform; wherein the second node can be configured and managed in the cluster by the second operating system and can take-over as an active node in case of a failure on the first node; and a server that includes: a software module for setting up and managing the cluster, wherein the software module runs scripts on the Linux operating system to manage the cluster and to configure the cluster by providing a highly available set of resources in a daemon within the second operating systems along with requisite dependencies and constraints for proper functioning.