Installation guide

Introduction

This document provides a high-level overview of Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

and is is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview

Chapter 2, Red Hat Cluster Suite Component Summary

Although the information in this document is an overview, you should have advanced working

knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and understand the concepts of server computing to gain a

good comprehension of the information.

For more information about using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 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:

Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster — Provides information about installing, configuring

and managing Red Hat Cluster components.

Logical Volume Manager 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).

Global File System 2: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,

configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS2 (Red Hat Global File System 2).

Using Device-Mapper Multipath — Provides information about using the Device-Mapper Multipath

feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Using GNBD with Global File System — Provides an overview on using Global Network Block

Device (GNBD) with Red Hat GFS.

Linux Virtual Server Administration — Provides information on configuring high-performance

systems and services with the Linux Virtual Server (LVS).

Red Hat Cluster Suite Release Notes — Provides information about the current release of Red Hat

Cluster Suite.

Red Hat Cluster Suite documentation and other Red Hat documents are available in HTML, PD F, and

RPM versions on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Documentation CD and online at

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/.

1. Document Convent ions

This manual uses several conventions to highlight certain words and phrases and draw attention to

specific pieces of information.

Red Hat Ent erprise Linux 5 Clust er Suit e Overview