Installation Guide: OpenSAF

Abstract
This installation guide provides instructions for system administrators installing a four node OpenSAF
development cluster with a 2N redundancy model.
The following is a graphical representation of an OpenSAF cluster.
Figure 1 OpenSA Cluster
The installation instructions provided in this guide assume that you are using the following hardware
and software configurations:
•HP BladeSystem c-Class chassis
•Dedicated ProLiant Server Blades for each node
•Each Blade/Node is installed with Fedora 10 Linux
•The Fedora “Everything” repository enabled via yum
•OpenHPI for hardware management
•A non-production cluster for development use and testing
Note:
State replication using DRBD is not covered in this document.
The OpenSAF version described in this installation guide is BETA software and subject to change. This
installation guide was tested specifically with OpenSAF version 3.0.0-M3.
1 Installing Prerequisites for OpenSAF
The software described in this installation guide is distributed in the same standard package formats
that are provided by the Linux distribution and that provide prerequisite information internally. If you