Genders is a static cluster configuration database used for cluster configuration management. It is used by a variety of tools and scripts for management of large clusters. The genders database is accessed by every node in a cluster, either through a networked file system or by replicating the database on every node of the cluster.

Genders is a static cluster configuration database used for cluster configuration management. It describes the layout and configuration of the cluster so that tools and scripts can sense the variations of cluster nodes.