Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Preparing Your Systems
Chapter 5198
Preparing Your Systems
This section describes the tasks that should be done on the prospective
cluster nodes before you actually configure the cluster. It covers the
following topics:
• “Installing and Updating Serviceguard” on page 199
• “Learning Where Serviceguard Files Are Kept” on page 199
• “Configuring Root-Level Access” on page 200
• “Configuring Name Resolution” on page 203
• “Ensuring Consistency of Kernel Configuration” on page 207
• “Enabling the Network Time Protocol” on page 207
• “Tuning Network and Kernel Parameters” on page 207
• “Creating Mirrors of Root Logical Volumes” on page 209
• “Choosing Cluster Lock Disks” on page 210
• “Setting Up a Lock LUN” on page 211
• “Setting Up and Running the Quorum Server” on page 214
• “Creating the Storage Infrastructure and Filesystems with LVM and
VxVM” on page 215