Storage appliance for controller platforms

A method, comprising:

• providing a network process control system in an industrial processing facility (IPF) comprising a plant-wide network coupling at least one server to a plurality of controller platforms all coupled to one another by at least one private path redundancy network for providing a controller pool, each controller platform of the plurality of controller platforms is a redundant controller pair, comprised of a primary controller and a backup controller, wherein the primary controller contains an application module (AM) and the AM is shared by the primary controller to the backup controller, wherein the plurality of controller platforms are coupled by an input/output (I/O) mesh network to I/O devices coupled to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment on a field level of an industrial processing facility (IPF);
• providing a control application module orchestrator (CAMO) coupled to the plant-wide network for dynamically deploying a plurality of AMs to the plurality of controller platforms, the CAMO including a CAMO database of attribute data that associates each controller platform in the controller pool with an AM in at least one AM pool;
• communicatively coupling a storage appliance to the plant-wide network;
• and
• causing a copy of each AM in the at least one AM pool and a copy of the CAMO database to be contained in the storage appliance.