Patent ID: 7590727

Claim:
A bladed system, comprising: a plurality of bladed servers, including a global failover bladed server pool including at least one failover bladed server that is available as a failover target for any other of the plurality of bladed servers and a local failover bladed server pool including at least one failover bladed server that is available as a failover target exclusively for at least one of the other of the plurality of bladed servers; a storage device sharable by the plurality of bladed servers; software stored on the storage device; and a component that monitors execution of the software on a first bladed server of the plurality of bladed servers, wherein the component promotes execution of the software from the storage device by a second failover bladed server in one of the global failover bladed server pool or the local failover bladed server pool in response to detecting failure of the software on the first bladed server, wherein the component further shuts down the first bladed server, boots the second failover bladed server, and assigns network and storage resources assigned to the first bladed server to the second failover bladed server.