ConHA: An SOA-based API gateway for consolidating heterogeneous HA clusters

Server and cluster consolidating is very common in cloud computing era. However, it is not easy to consolidate heterogeneous high-availability (HA) clusters due to the lack of unified administrative tool for managing various kinds of high-availability clusters developed by different vendors. To solve this problem, an SOA-based API gateway, ConHA, is proposed in this paper. ConHA provides unified web service APIs and the functionalities for managing heterogeneous HA cluster. ConHA is designed in a scalable and extensible way. The security issues are also discussed in this paper.