摘要:
A system and techniques are described for managing key-value pairs using an architecture that does not restrict its users to any specific platform or storage subsystem. According to one aspect of the invention, the repository is portable in that the architecture need not change based on the environment and platform in which the repository is used. Rather, the portion of the architecture that is platform-specific is limited to plug-ins at a storage abstraction layer of the repository. The plug-ins expose the same storage abstraction interface to the other layers of the repository, but are implemented to interact with different platforms and storage subsystems. Consequently, in response to being ported from one platform to another, the repository may simply change the plug-in to invoke for persistent storage operations.
摘要:
A system and techniques are described for managing key-value pairs using an architecture that does not restrict its users to any specific platform or storage subsystem. According to one aspect of the invention, the repository is portable in that the architecture need not change based on the environment and platform in which the repository is used. Rather, the portion of the architecture that is platform-specific is limited to plug-ins at a storage abstraction layer of the repository. The plug-ins expose the same storage abstraction interface to the other layers of the repository, but are implemented to interact with different platforms and storage subsystems. Consequently, in response to being ported from one platform to another, the repository may simply change the plug-in to invoke for persistent storage operations.
摘要:
A group of shared-storage resources are being maintained as replicas by the nodes of a cluster. Each node in the cluster maintains a set of pointers to the members of the group. As membership changes, the set of pointers should be changed accordingly. For various, reasons, the set of pointers of a node are not changed and may point to shared-storage resources that are no longer members of the group and/or not point to shared-storage resources that are members of the group. By recording a history of membership changes in the shared-storage resources, and comparing the recording to what a node thinks the shared resources should be, an incorrect set of pointers can be detected and corrective active undertaken.
摘要:
A system and techniques are described for managing key-value pairs using an architecture that does not restrict its users to any specific platform or storage subsystem. According to one aspect of the invention, the repository is portable in that the architecture need not change based on the environment and platform in which the repository is used. Rather, the portion of the architecture that is platform-specific is limited to plug-ins at a storage abstraction layer of the repository. The plug-ins expose the same storage abstraction interface to the other layers of the repository, but are implemented to interact with different platforms and storage subsystems. Consequently, in response to being ported from one platform to another, the repository may simply change the plug-in to invoke for persistent storage operations.
摘要:
A system and method for facilitating an automatic rolling upgrade of distributed software. In a set of computing devices (e.g., a cluster), each node executes the distributed program, but different nodes may operate any number of different versions of the program. During a rolling upgrade of the software, the nodes all operate according to a specified acting version of the software. A node attempting the join the cluster may be required to have a software version at least equal to the acting version. When all nodes have been upgraded to a version newer than the current acting version, the acting version is reset to the lowest software version installed on a node. The rolling upgrade completes automatically when all nodes run at a specified software version (e.g., the most recent) or have the same version installed.
摘要:
A group of shared-storage resources are being maintained as replicas by the nodes of a cluster. Each node in the cluster maintains a set of pointers to the members of the group. As membership changes, the set of pointers should be changed accordingly. For various, reasons, the set of pointers of a node are not changed and may point to shared-storage resources that are no longer members of the group and/or not point to shared-storage resources that are members of the group. By recording a history of membership changes in the shared-storage resources, and comparing the recording to what a node thinks the shared resources should be, an incorrect set of pointers can be detected and corrective active undertaken.
摘要:
A system and method for facilitating an automatic rolling upgrade of distributed software. In a set of computing devices (e.g., a cluster), each node executes the distributed program, but different nodes may operate any number of different versions of the program. During a rolling upgrade of the software, the nodes all operate according to a specified acting version of the software. A node attempting the join the cluster may be required to have a software version at least equal to the acting version. When all nodes have been upgraded to a version newer than the current acting version, the acting version is reset to the lowest software version installed on a node. The rolling upgrade completes automatically when all nodes run at a specified software version (e.g., the most recent) or have the same version installed.
摘要:
Described herein is a mechanism that follows, at least in part, an object oriented design pattern. In particular, a class is used to model a shared resource as a shared resource object. The class creates one instance of the shared resource object in response to multiple attempts to create a shared resource object from the class. The class defines various methods used to interact with the object. The object receives requests to perform operations from the clients. The clients may register another object to receive from the shared resource object notifications regarding events about the operations requested by the clients.
摘要:
A cluster management system dynamically assigns a category to a server node based on the server node's attributes. The system can detect a change in value of a server attribute of a first server node. Then, in response to detecting the change in value of the server attribute, the system identifies a plurality of server attributes for the first server node, and dynamically assigns to the first server node a category that matches the server attributes. Further, the system can add the server node to a server pool that has a matching category with the server node.
摘要:
A method and computer-readable storage representing resources in a cluster by a plurality of attribute-value pairs that together are part of a “resource profile,” in which each attribute-value pair defines all, or a portion of, a management policy that applies to the resource. A clusterware manager configures a resource according to the resource profile, and follows a resource profile syntax that specifies a runtime value for the resource in which an actual value is substituted at runtime.