High Availability using service profiles

[Luis Francisco Sierra Alcazar]

Hi

I have a doubt about High Availability using blade servers. In this case I have three server B200 , but in production are two, the third one is a spare , this blade will be in production if anyone of previous servers is fall down for any reason.

Is there a configuration in service profiles to do this?

Or , How I can do High Availability  in automatically way, without administrator intervention , or a task ??

Best regards

[Robert Burns]

Not natively possible.  This is because of the question - "how do you detect a server is down?"  No network, no SAN, unresponsive etc.

There are many 3rd party management applications that can do this along with the XML API.  When the management server detects a server is down, it can send an XML request to re-associate a profile to a new blade.

Unfortunately this is the only method currently.

Robert

[Luis Francisco Sierra Alcazar]

Hi Robert

Thanks for our anwer, Can you tell me the name of this software to program high availability ??

Regards

[Robert Burns]

There's no "High Availability" software I know of.  You'd have to look for a Management Suite such as Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia), CA Automation Suite, etc

Here's a couple links to get you started:

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2Fen%2FUS%2Fprod%2Fcollateral%2Fps10265%2Fps10281%2Fle_34703_sb_ca_ucs.pdf&ei=HOluUvT4HaiM2QXA8IHoCg&usg=AFQjCNFVmTZ0xP2zIZ4TcHMPRIeORFzQPQ&sig...

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CGIQFjAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2Fen%2FUS%2Fprod%2Fcollateral%2Fnetmgtsw%2Fps6505%2Fps11038%2Fps11100%2Fc22-637829-01_cisco_teo_adapter_for_ucs_mgr.pdf&ei=HOluUvT4HaiM2QXA8I...

Regards,

Robert