Abstract: A system and method for failure recovery in a cluster network is disclosed in which each application of each node of the cluster network is assigned a preferred failover node. The dynamic selection of a preferred failover node for each application is made on the basis of the processor and memory requirements of the application and the processor and memory usage of each node of the cluster network.

Abstract: A method, system and software for allocating information handling system resources in response to cluster fail-over events are disclosed. In operation, the method provides for the calculation of a performance ratio between a failing node and a fail-over node and the transformation of an application calendar schedule from the failing node into a new application calendar schedule for the fail-over node. Before implementing the new application calendar schedule for the failing-over application on the fail-over node, the method verifies that the fail-over node includes sufficient resources to process its existing calendar schedule as well as the new application calendar schedule for the failing-over application. A resource negotiation algorithm may be applied to one or more of the calendar schedules to prevent application starvation in the event the fail-over node does not include sufficient resources to process the failing-over application calendar schedule as well as its existing application calendar schedules.