A cluster is a group of servers that share replicated repository information. An EAServer cluster’s primary purpose is to provide load balancing and high availability. See Chapter 8, “Load Balancing, Failover, and Component Availability.” A cluster partition is a subset of a cluster, which identifies preferred and alternate servers, and can be assigned to service specific components’ requests. Synchronization enables you to connect to the primary server in a cluster and distribute repository information to “synchronize” one or more of the other servers in the cluster. You can also synchronize nonclustered servers. Synchronization provides a way to distribute information between servers.
