Patent ID: 7434104

Claim:
A method for testing core functionality of a clustered system having a plurality of nodes, the method comprising the operations of: (a) performing a cluster population test including populating the clustered system with cluster-aware applications; (b) performing a crash and reboot test to stress core operations running within the clustered system including executing a series of crashes or reboots on a subset of the nodes; (c) performing a move test including moving resources to a selected node of the clustered system and verifying that the resources remain on-line at the selected node; (d) performing a stop test including stopping cluster service on a selected subset of nodes of the clustered system within a timeout threshold and restarting the cluster service on the selected subset of nodes; and (e) performing a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) test including crashing in BSOD mode one of the nodes of the clustered system and testing reservation release on the crashed node.