Intel_RAID_HA_Solution_RHEL_WhitePaper

Table of Contents Intel® RAID High Availability Solution for Red Hat* Linux Systems White Paper

Intel Confidential Revision 1.0

Table of Contents

1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Background .................................................................................................................... 1

1.2 Requirements and Configuration Diagram ..................................................................... 1

2. Installation ......................................................................................................................... 3

2.1 Download Release Package .......................................................................................... 3

2.2 Install Release Package ................................................................................................. 3

2.3 Install and Update the HA RAID Controllers ................................................................... 5

2.4 Operating System Installation ........................................................................................ 6

2.5 Network Configuration .................................................................................................... 7

2.6 Installation of Intel

HA RAID Drivers and Intel

RAID Web Console 2 .......................... 9

2.7 Installation of HA Cluster Packages ............................................................................. 11

2.8 Firewall and SELinux Changes .................................................................................... 15

2.9 Configure the HA Cluster ............................................................................................. 16

2.9.1 Create an HA Cluster ........................................................................................... 16

2.9.2 Configure the Fence Devices ............................................................................... 17

2.9.3 Create a Failover Domain .................................................................................... 18

2.9.4 Configuring Cluster Resources ............................................................................. 19

2.9.5 Add a Cluster Service and Assign a Resource to the Service ............................... 20

2.9.6 Create a Disk Quorum .......................................................................................... 20

2.9.7 Propagate the Configuration File to the Cluster Nodes ......................................... 21

2.9.8 Start the CMAN Service ....................................................................................... 21

Reference Documents ............................................................................................................22