Red Hat has announced a specialized version of the Red Hat Linux 6.2 distribution called “the Red Hat High Availability Server 1.0”. The new product is described as “an out-of-the-box clustering solution that features dynamic load balancing, improved fault tolerance, and scalability of TCP/IP based applications.”

The Red Hat High Availability Server offers fail-over capability whereby, if one server in the cluster fails, another will automatically take over its workload. Red Hat's annoucement of the new High Availability Server software says it is “ideally suited to applications requiring virtually uninterrupted service”.

 
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