The concept of a cluster is that the cluster itself appears on the outside as a single system.
A cluster consists of two or more Real Computers referred to as nodes or members of a cluster.Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and/or availability over that provided by a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.
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