srisubu

• Jul 21st, 2005

 

A cluster is loosely coupled group of servers that provide a unified, simple view of the services that they offer individually. Servers in a cluster may or may not communicate to one another. Generally, the overall goal of employing a cluster is to increase the availability or reliability of the system.

Bikram Bhusan Sinha

• Jul 12th, 2006

 

Clusters are a group of servers working together to achieve a common goals

It will provide the following benefits to an application :

1. High availability

2. Scalability - vertical and horizontal

3. Load Balancing

Application requests will get routed to any of the active servers during run time processing based on the load balancing alogorithm like round robin,random or weight based.