Hot standby nodes enable spare nodes to be incorporated into the production environment. Vantage can use spare nodes to improve availability and maintain performance levels in the event of a node failure. A hot standby node has these characteristics:
- It is a member of a clique.
- It does not typically participate in Vantage operations.
- It can replace a lost node in the clique.
Configuring a hot standby node can eliminate the system-wide performance degradation associated with the loss of a node. A hot standby node is added to each clique in the system. When a node fails, all AMPs and all LAN-attached PEs on the failed node migrate to the node designated as the hot standby. The hot standby node becomes a production node. When the failed node returns to service, it becomes the new hot standby node.
Configuring hot standby nodes eliminates:
- Restarts that are required to bring a failed node back into service.
- Degraded service when vprocs have migrated to other nodes in a clique.