A fault tolerant network server is described. This server has a pair of
processing units, each processing unit has at least one CPU, system
memory, an interface for a RAID system, at least one disk drive, a network
interface, a cluster network interface, a power supply, and a case. The
cases of both processing units are slideably mounted in a rack-mountable
server case. The server also has a RAID system mounted in the server case
and powered by two, redundant, power supplies and coupled to the
processing units through isolators for blocking transactions when a
processing unit has insufficient power or is being serviced.