Installation guide

Introduction
This document provides information about installing, configuring, and managing Red Hat Virtual
Linux Server (LVS) components. LVS provides load balancing through specialized routing
techniques that dispatch traffic to a pool of servers. This document does not include information
about installing, configuring, and managing Red Hat Cluster software. Information about that is
in a separate document.
The audience of this document should have advanced working knowledge of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and understand the concepts of clusters, storage, and server computing.
This document is organized as follows:
• Chapter 1, Linux Virtual Server Overview
• Chapter 2, Initial LVS Configuration
• Chapter 3, Setting Up LVS
• Chapter 4, Configuring the LVS Routers with Piranha Configuration Tool
• Appendix A, Using LVS with Red Hat Cluster
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the following resources:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide — Provides information regarding installation of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide — Provides information regarding the
deployment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
For more information about Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the
following resources:
• Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview — Provides a high level overview of the Red Hat Cluster
Suite.
• Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster — Provides information about installing,
configuring and managing Red Hat Cluster components.
• LVM Administrator's Guide: Configuration and Administration — Provides a description of the
Logical Volume Manager (LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered
environment.
• Global File System: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,
configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System).
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