Patent ID: 8015432

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a failure of a resource, wherein the resource is executed by a first server; launching a partition, within a virtualized environment, wherein the partition is launched on a second server, the partition is configured with a set of properties, the set of properties is associated with an operating environment of the first server, the set of properties comprises one or more enablement properties, the one or more enablement properties are necessary for proper execution of the associated partition within the virtualized environment, and the one or more enablement properties specify whether the virtualized environment is capable of supporting software partitions; and facilitating failover of the resource from the first server to the second server by launching a resource within the partition, wherein the one or more enablement properties differentiate whether resources of a system may be established outside the partition, the failover is performed in accordance with the one or more enablement properties, and the resource within the partition reports the state of a service group instead of managing the partition.