Patent ID: 8484163

Claim:
A method for restoring a node of a cluster network environment, comprising: receiving notification of an integrity loss associated with a node within a cluster network environment; restoring a local configuration to the node to establish a restored node; restoring a cluster configuration to the node to establish the restored node, the cluster configuration corresponding to at least one of cluster services, data volume locations, data block locations, user IDs, file access configuration, virtual servers, database configurations, cluster rules, or cluster management data, the restoring a cluster configuration comprising: synchronizing the node with cluster operating data of the cluster network environment to restore the cluster configuration to the node, the synchronizing comprising: removing one or more data replication service directories on the node; and repopulating the one or more data replication service directories from a data replication service within the cluster network environment, the one or more data replication service directories corresponding to cluster configuration data; and introducing the restored node with the cluster network environment based upon the cluster configuration of the restored node.